2009 RIPPON Sauvignon Blanc
| Grapes: Sauvignon | Origin: New Zealand, South Island |
Lea & Sandeman review
Nick Mills' exceptional Sauvignon, as usual restrained and yet a fully ripe style, achieved by picking at full ripeness and a slow fermentation in horizontal tanks. Exotic fruits on the nose, with hints of gooseberry and lime, and very bright fruit flavours on the palate, with a note of sweetness followed by a long, dry, mineral finish. So much more complex and edgy than most.| Purchasing options | |||||||||||||||
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Rippon
Nick Mills has returned home after several years away, working with the likes of Alain and Sophie Meunier at Domaine JJ Confuron, and Pascal Marchand (late of Domaine Comte Armand and now at Domaine de la Vougeraie). This experience with some of the leading players in Burgundy has fired him with enthusiasm, and we are already seeing the fruits of his experience in the changes in viticulture (to bio-dynamism) and the increased depth of mineral complexity in the wines.
Nick Mills on Biodynamics: 'Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family's principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings. It is the micro-life in our soils which, in their ability to metabolise minerals into a form that vines can assimilate, are the link in between plants and the earth. This simple biology is the essential framework in producing a wine which is true to its soil and site. With this understanding comes an absolute respect for the land and life therein and it is for this reason that Rippon is run biodynamically. Decisions made in the vineyard and winery first consider the effect the outcome may have on the micro-flora of the soils, vines & wines. Rippon does not use herbicides, fungicides, pesticides or soluble nitrogenous fertilisers on the property. All the property's organic waste matter is recycled to make around 40 tonnes of fungal dominant compost every year. This is spread back over the land during the first descending moon after harvest as an inoculation of beneficial micro-flora for the whole property...and thus starts a diverse and vital web of life on which to live and produce.