Cloudy Bay Te Koko Vintage:2023

Cloudy Bay Te Koko Vintage:2023Forget all you know about New Zealand's Sauvignon Blanc! Cloudy Bay broke the winemaking rules to create a sophisticated style of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc made through wild fermentation and aging in old French oak. Te Koko 2020 is complex and appealing, with notes of white flowers, warm hay, summer stone fruit and preserved citrus on the nose. Textured. with layers of white peach, pear and white flowers melding with mineral characters and subtle

James and Annie Millton are as biodynamic as you get

Looking back

The paradis is a cognac maison’s most venerated cellar

which gives reason to believe it would have been granted her approval

Drink with vegetable or meat antipasti

and have a silty-loam texture that allows for good vine development

textbook aromas of cassis and pencil shavings and a firm

Refined and with excellent length

makes a true Pimms No1 Cup

the second refers to the hens (‘poul’) in the vineyards pecking/lancing (‘picque’) the low hanging grapes

Grown in vineyards that are over 45 years old

basil and roasted red pepper salad