This is Lake Chalice’s flagship single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc from Dillons Point  Inviting ripe grapefruit aromas are neatly framed by notes of blackcurrant leaf, with subtle flinty highlights. Generous and full, layered with grapefruit and blackcurrant, this wine is underpinned by salt and mineral notes through to a long, concentrated finish.

The grapes are sourced from a single vineyard in the rich loamy soils of the Dillons Point area of Marlborough’s Lower Wairau Valley. Shaped by a slow convergence of tectonic plates, the Wairau Valley offers a veritable patchwork of contrasting soil types linking the Alps in the west with the Pacific Ocean in the east. The eastern flood plain soils are nutrient-rich silty loam, renowned for delivering Marlborough’s iconic tropical flavoured Sauvignon Blanc. In order to capture the maximum expression of regional characteristics, the pruning, irrigation and canopy management is dictated by each variety and by each block of land.