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Cliff Edge Wines - Marlborough, New Zealand

Since bursting onto the international wine scene in the 1980's, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc has almost exclusively been responsible for planting New Zealand on the world wine map. With its racy acidity, intense tropical fruit, green pepper and herbaceous flavours, the savvy has become a classic wine style, and this success has created a whole category with opportunities for expressions at many different price points.

The Cliff Edge branding incorporates the New Zealand Falcon which was re-established in Marlborough's Wairau Valley in 2005. This conservation project has been widely supported by the New Zealand wine industry, particularly as the Falcons are natural predators to pest birds which damage grape crops. Hedges and trees usually cut down to remove pest bird nesting sites are now being left, further benefiting the natural environment.

May 3, 2012

Cliff Edge Sauvignon Blanc

Price: £96.60

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New Zealand's sunniest region, averages over 2,400 sunshine hours per year. Warm, dry and settled weather predominates during summer. Winter days often frosty, but are usually mild overall. All fruit from the Wairau Valley, sourced from 3 sub-regions; 25% Dillons Point, 25% Brancott Valley, 50% Spring Creek. Free draining alluvial loam over gravelly sub-soil, pockets of deep silt Mechanical harvested, early morning. Cool fermented in steel tanks with extended lees contact. No oak, no malolactic fermentation.

100% Sauvignon Blanc

A complex palate of tropical fruit, green pepper and freshly picked peas leads to a crisp, mineral edge on the finish

"Refreshing and light, Cliff Edge Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc has a streak of minerality on the finish and the light, tropical fruit flavours and purity make it a great match with chicken or fish. Aberdeen Press and Journal, Sam Wylie Harris"

Product ref : ST46512

Price: £96.60 inc VAT

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Grape : Sauvignon Blanc
Origin : New Zealand

Genre : Red Wine

Category : 1 bottle

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Cliff Edge Vineyards and Climate

Marlborough is usually the sunniest part of New Zealand with a long grape growing season, however being close to mountains there are sharp drops in temperature at night in the vineyards. Avoiding frost damage to grapes is vital to successful viticulture here, but these large diurnal temperature differences actually help to retain high levels of acidity and flavour in Sauvignon Blanc.

Cliff Edge is produced from selected vineyard sites in Marlborough's Wairau Valley where the stoney, free draining alluvial soils restrict leaf growth and encourage healthy grape production.

With no sign of a slow down of demand for Marlborough Sauvignon we are pleased to bring you this great, full flavoured example that is high in quality, well priced, and stylishly dressed.

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