Overview: A fruit driven, medium-bodied red wine. Designed for enjoyment on release, it will, however, benefit from short-term aging. Tasting Notes: Blackberry and cigar box aromas mingle with a touch of sweet vanilla. The palate is soft and warm with lightly coating tannins. Red berry fruit combines with a touch of spicy oak. Recommended Cellaring: 2-3 years Production Notes: The grapes were harvested in late March (6 x 75 cl)
Region:
New Zealand, Hawke's Bay
Producer:
Babich Wines
Product ID:
7952
Babich Semillon Chardonnay East Coast NZ
Description: Babich Semillon Chardonnay East Coast NZ from NewZealand by BabichWines Zesty/Aromatic Dry Whites (12 x 75 cl) Price: £95.35
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Babich Riesling Marlborough NZ
Description: Overview: The warm sunny days and cool night of the Marlborough Region are ideally suited to ripening the Riesling grape. Tasting Notes: The nose is greeted by a delicate, yet not shy, floral scent of orange blossom with hints of lime. The medium weighted palate is sweet fruited and juicy with apple/citrus flavours predominating over wild floral notes. An agreeable minerality lingers on the dry finish. This is an elegant and stylish wine with perfect balance. Production Notes: Grapes were harvested on the 6th of May at 21.2 Brix. The juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks to retain aromatic varietal character, with various yeasts and at various temperatures. The ferments were stopped before completion to retain a level of natural sweetness. The young wine was left on its yeast lees until blending. Recommended Cellaring: 0-4 years (6 x 75 cl) Price: £51.68
Babich Pinot Noir East Coast NZ
Description: Overview: A soft and supple wine displaying good varietal character. Region: Marlborough and Henderson Tasting Notes: The bouquet is a mix of sweet fruit (6 x 75 cl) Price: £59.57
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Babich Sauvignon Blanc Hawke's Bay NZ
Description: Overview: A rich, intensely flavoured, Sauvignon Blanc that proves a versatile partner for many dishes. Tasting Notes: The aromas of lemon and melon combine with hints of grass and flint. Sweet tropical notes of pineapple and passion fruit are joined by apples, lemon and a focusing, grassy edge. This is a rich and mouth filling wine, strongly flavoured with a firm lingering finish. Production Notes: The grapes were crushed and pressed at our Auckland winery upon receival. To enhance the varietal flavour expression, fermentation took place in refrigerated stainless steel tanks at cool temperatures using a variety of yeasts. After six months ageing on lees the blend was assembled and bottled in September . Recommended Cellaring: 0-2 years (6 x 75 cl) Price: £53.69
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Babich Chardonnay East Coast NZ
Description: Tasting Notes: A fruit-driven wine, aromas of apple and peach mingle with hints of orange blossom leading to a palate full of clean and fruity character. Lively and crisp the wine also displays a creamy texture, balance and pleasing length. Production Notes: The grapes were harvested in perfect condition in late March. Fermentation took place in stainless steel vats at cool temperatures to capture primary fruit aromas and freshness, there was no malo-lactic fermentation. Recommended Cellaring: 2-4 years (6 x 75 cl) Price: £60.52
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Babich Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc NZ
Description: Overview: A long and late ripening period of short sunny days and cold nights has enhanced the typically vibrant flavours of the Marlborough Region. Tasting Notes: A lifted and lively bouquet combining herbal/fennel aromas with gooseberry and bell pepper. The palate is sweet fruited and rich, flavours of gooseberry , pea and tropical fruit are apparent. The wine has good weight and a lingering yet crisp finish. Production Notes: After harvest the grapes were quickly crushed and pressed into stainless steel tanks where the juice was fermented at controlled cool temperatures to capture the intense varietal flavours. The wine was then blended and bottled. Recommended Cellaring: Best enjoyed while young. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £57.11
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Babich WINEMAKER'S RESERVE Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough NZ
Description: Overview: The fruit of our two Marlborough vineyards were blended to produce this rich and flavoursome wine: Cowslip Valley , providing full, soft and luscious fruit weight, and Wakefield Downs , bringing strength and focus. Tasting Notes: A heady, sweet bouquet overflowing with gooseberry, pea and melon, a hint of thyme is also evident. The weighty palate exhibits a fruit salad of tropical flavours with nettles and spice on the lengthy finish. Recommended Cellaring: 1-3 years Production Notes: The grapes were harvested in April. The Awatere and a majority of the Waihopai juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks to capture the exuberant varietal character of the fruit. The balance of Waihopai juice was fermented in French oak barriques and lees stirred to contribute weight and complexity. The wine was blended in August. Grapes: 100% Sauvignon Blanc (6 x 75 cl) Price: £61.67
Babich WINEMAKER'S RESERVE Gewurztraminer Hawke's Bay NZ
Description: Overview: A perfect ripening period from February through March coupled with the free draining shingle soils of our Gimblett Road vineyard, delivered clean and deliciously perfumed fruit. Tasting Notes: A perfumed nose redolent with rose and lychee, leads on to a richly flavoured spicy palate. The pure fruit flavour and a good acid/sugar balance give an off-dry feel and contribute to the lingering finish. Production Notes: The fruit was hand picked on the 17th March at 23 brix and crushed. After a period of skin contact for flavour extraction, the fruit was pressed and the juice fermented in stainless steel using a variety of yeasts and ferment temperatures. The wine was then allowed to develop for several months prior to bottling. Grapes: 100% Gewürztraminer Recommended Cellaring: 0-5 years (6 x 75 cl) Price: £64.16
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Babich WINEMAKER'S RESERVE Pinotage Hawke's Bay NZ
Description: Tasting Notes: A rich and heady perfume of spice, Doris plum and ripe banana evolve from the glass and spill onto the palate which is warm and generous with sweet fruit and savoury, earthy notes. Soft with fine tannins, this wine leaves with a lingering impression of chocolate and plum pudding (6 x 75 cl) Price: £59.48
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Babich WINEMAKER'S RESERVE Pinot Noir Marlborough NZ
Description: Overview: The warm days and cool nights that Marlborough is well known for are ideal for the Pinot Noir grape. An early ripening variety, it benefits from the warm days, high sunshine hours and cool nights that develop intense flavour while maintaining balanced acidity in the fruit. Tasting Notes: An attractively rich bouquet redolent with cherry-spice and earthy notes is combined with a warm, soft palate full of intense berry fruit and a complex and lingering earthy-smokiness. Nicely balanced and very approachable. Production Notes : The grapes, a blend of five different clones, , were hand harvested in late March early April when physiologically ripe. They were then crushed into small open vats. After a period of cold soaking, 3-4 days, the must was inoculated and fermented at 28-30 degrees C. Frequent hand plunging over the initial ferment period ensured the gentle extraction of colour and tannin. At the completion of ferment the wine was run off into a blend of new and old French oak to undergo malo-lactic fermentation. The wine stayed on lees in barrel for 10 months. The separate batches were then assessed and blended. Recommended Cellaring: 1-4 years Grapes: 100% Pinot (6 x 75 cl) Price: £77.47
