Sauvignon Blanc Selection `S` SchubertABV 13% Region Martinborough, located within the Wairarapa Valley, was the first of New Zealand`s wine regions to establish world class credentials for producing Pinot Noir. It is east of Wellington, surrounded by the Tararua Mountains with vines planted on alluvial gravel river beds with a limestone subsoil. The Wairarapa Valley is cooler and drier than any other North Island wine region, and like Marlborough across the Cook Strait, it is exposed to

It delivers the "authority" you expect from Latour

Annual production – 250

sweetness of the fruit is not over dominated

and like Marlborough across the Cook Strait

This vineyard

with well integrated toasty oak

giving way to a serious undercurrent of licorice

The aftertaste is characterized by notes of roasted coffee and bitter chocolate

blackberry and cassis fruit are present along with a hint of licorice and background oak

VINTAGE 2014

The harvest began on October 11

more or less an inverse from the norm