“Showing some earthy and spicy complexity here, with notes of lemon grass, grapefruit, star anise and dried herbs. Some blackcurrant and capsicum, too. Firm, focused and spicy with medium body and chalky minerality.”

“Showing some earthy and spicy complexity here, with notes of lemon grass, grapefruit, star anise and dried herbs. Some blackcurrant and capsicum, too. Firm, focused and spicy with medium body and chalky minerality.”

“The 2021 Sauvignon Blanc Woven is the first vintage of this new cuvée. It is an ambitious, wood-fermented, lees-aged expression. Hailing from the richer soils of Marlborough's Southern Valleys, it is a weighty, curvy style with plenty of richness built in the mid-palate and sinewy muscle drawing it through – it’s not what you would call a shy and retiring wine. It boasts a powerful structure and bold varietal flavors. Sweaty passion fruit, blackcurrant, nectarine and nettles meet oak-derived vanillins as well as a firm, flinty, reductive note. Possessing long length and line, this is a wine that would benefit from a little decant prior to drinking. This is an impressive new offering from Villa Maria. Chapeau.”