Palliser Estate, Pencarrow Sauvignon Blanc, Martinborough
Palliser Estate · Wairarapa › Martinborough › New Zealand
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
86
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3
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No vintages
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Community Reviews
44
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86.0
Avg Score
88
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Taster #2708
· Oct 18, 2019
85/100
Very typical New Zealand sauvignon blanc, with its pronounced aromas, ripe tropical fruit, and good intensity. This one shows good length too. Pronounced aromas of passion fruit, mango, lemon, buxus, grass, biscuit. Dry wine, medium+ acidity, light body, medium+ intense flavours of passion fruit, Solero ice cream, lemon, red apple, flint, wet stone. Long finish. 13% - €11,50 @ Aarts wijnen
2018 vintage
Taster #4929
· Sep 5, 2019
88/100
Over fish and chips at the Lake Ferry Hotel in NZ. A simple quaffer, nothing great, but okay to wash our food down with. This was quite what the international audience has come to expect as the archetypal entry level NZ SB - passionfruit, guava and gooseberries on the nose; sweet white fruit, think white peach and gooseberries again, on the palate, all livened up by a splash of fresh acidity. Simple, but decent drinking.
2018 vintage
Taster #5251
· Jul 29, 2010
85/100
Very mellow and refreshing. Contrary to popular opinion, I beleive that a few years bottle age helps NZ SB. Some of the yourger ones I've tated recently have been very fresh and a bit tart.
2007 vintage
Taster #5845
· Sep 10, 2008
NobleRottersSydney - NZTrip - Martinborough (Martinborough) : {screwcap, 13%, NZ$16} Slightly sweaty, gooseberry-like/straw/asparagus nose. A near-dry (or seems so due to the high acidity) palate is fresh and tart, light-medium in body, and simple undemanding drinking. Saw this on sale in a Havelock bottle shop for NZ$12.
2007 vintage