Jackson Estate Grey Ghost Sauvignon Blanc 2019

Lifted notes of white peach, nectarine and mandarin blossom combine with a complex gun flint aroma and supportive lees character on the nose. The stone fruit character follows through to the palate, where the creamy lees component combines with a softer acidity and background minerality to form a textured and layered wine.

Harvested from Jackson Estate Homestead vineyard, this wine is an expression of a single site. Intensive hands-on viticulture including

Intensive hands-on viticulture including shoot and fruit thinning, hand picking and sorting are incorporated to optimize fruit and wine quality.

The fruit arrived in the early afternoon and was allowed to settle overnight in our cool rooms. Loaded whole bunch to press the following day, the fruit is pressed and cut to winemaker's taste. 70% of the resulting juice was put directly to 6-year-old plus French Oak Barriques with the remaining 30% in small stainless steel tank. Fermentation in both the barrel and tank portions was carried out by natural indigenous yeast populations at warm temperatures. Once fermentation was complete the young wines in both tank and barrel sat on yeast lees for a further 8 months. The barrel portion received intense lees stirring and completed a percentage of natural malolactic fermentation before being blended with the tank portion in preparation for bottling.