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NOTES
From humble beginnings in the Northland kauri gum fields early last century, Babich Wines have become one of New Zealand’s most respected wineries. Their reputation for making excellent wine extends beyond New Zealand’s shores.
TASTING NOTES
This wine has a bouquet that is bursting with passionfruit, sweat, gooseberry and red current. The palate is rich, sweet fruited and complex with layers of guava, passionfruit and gooseberry. The acid/fruit balance is excellent with a lovely herbal flinty character and a lingering perfume on the finish.
REVIEWS
Weighty, dry wine with strong, ripe flavours of passionfruit and lime, rich and rounded. This is not a "leap out of the glass" herbaceous style, but it offers great drinkability. 4 STARS - Michael Cooper, NZ Listener Magazine, Sept 2009
PAST REVIEWS
"They’ve hit a 6 with this wine. Full on passion fruit and feijoas with a succulent palate loaded with ripe fruit flavours. The zesty acid adds real life to the wine and lengthens the finish. It’s gorgeous: pure and absolutely delicious. At its best: now to 2008." 94 POINTS - SMART BUY - 5 STARS
-WineOrbit Review, August 2007
"Joe Babich favours 'a fuller, riper, softer style of Sauvignon Blanc. It's not a jump out of the glass style, but the wines develop well. The latest release reflect a rising input of grapes from the company's Cowslip Valley vineyard in the Waihopai Valley, which gives less herbaceous fruit characters than its other Marlborough vineyards. The 2007 is freshly scented, ripe and rounded, with melon, lime and passionfruit flavours, showing very good depth, purity and length."
Michael Cooper's A Buyers Guide to New Zealand Wines 2008
"A generous, fleshy, crisp expression of the grape and an ideal partner for fleshy shucked Clevedon oysters. This wine is a real Marlborough salad, a blend of fruit from Babich's extensive vineyards in the big three valleys: Wairau, Awatere and Waihopai."
-Cuisine Magazine, January 2008
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