Halcyon Days 'Halcyon' Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Halcyon Days 'Halcyon' Sauvignon Blanc 2024

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We make Halcyon to reflect that time of year and that golden sunlight, as well as providing a different prism through which to view – and experience – New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. We pick the grapes just as they get ripe, keeping the beautiful, fresh acid line that Sauvignon is capable of. This freshness is tempered with texture from extended skin-contact throughout fermentation (we press the wine off its skins just as fermentation comes to a close). Not only does this provide texture, it also provides an incredibly complex array of aromas (typically from hay all the way to pineapple) and a wine colour that underlines the golden skin colour of Sauvignon Blanc on the vine.

Golden, textured, aromatically complex and delightfully refreshing, it also clocks in at a nice 10.5% alcohol.

All grapes for Halcyon  come from the beautiful, certified organic, Osawa vineyard in the Mangatahi subregion. Mangatahi is situated on the southern alluvial river terraces of the Ngaruroro Moko tū-ā-raro-ki-Rangatira Awa. With a higher elevation than the Heretaunga plains, it is slightly cooler, with more influence from the Kaweka and Ruahine pae maunga to the west. The soils are sandy loam over alluvial gravels with a ferrous content (referred to as “red metals” in Aotearoa).

The grapes were handpicked and then 50% whole bunch and 50% destemmed into an open fermenter. The wine fermented spontaneously with ambient yeasts on skins and with very gentle extraction over 10 days. It was pressed and underwent malolactic fermentation on full lees in a horizontal stainless steel tank for 12 months.

Like all our wines, Halcyon was made with no additions, fining or filtration.

 

 

 

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:

Halcyon Days is Amy and Olly Hopkinson-Styles, we craft exceptional certified organic wines with energy and tension from Te Matau a Māui, Aotearoa.

Halcyon Days wine is made with organic grapes from BioGro certified Osawa and Two Terraces vineyards in Mangatahi subregion of Te Matau a Māui, Hawke's Bay. The vineyards are loam over gravel alluvial soils formed by the braided Ngaruroro awa.

Our fruit is handpicked, natural ferment, and our wines are unfined, unfiltered, with no additions.

 

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