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Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc

Name: Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc
Brand: Greywacke Winery
SKU: 9421901925017
Price: 20.0 GBP
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Producer Greywacke Winery

Country New Zealand

Region Marlborough

ABV 13.50%

Tasting Notes

Passionfruit, Lime, Blackcurrant Leaf and Wet Stone

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More About Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc

Greywacke was created in 2009 by Kevin Judd, the person responsible for the ground-breaking early wines produced in Marlborough. The name ‘Greywacke’ was adopted by Kevin for his first Marlborough vineyard, located in Rapaura, in recognition of the prevalence of rounded greywacke river stones in the vineyard’s soils. ‘Greywacke’ is a sedimentary rock that is widely found in Marlborough, consisting of layers of hard grey sandstone and darker mudstone.

Meet the Producer, Greywacke Winery

Greywacke Winery

Style: Winery

Greywacke is one of those New Zealand wineries that manages to feel both hugely famous and strangely understated at the same time. Founded by Kevin Judd, the original winemaker behind Cloudy Bay, Greywacke helped shape the modern reputation of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc without turning into one of those massive polished wine brands that starts sounding like a luxury car advert halfway through the tasting notes.

The winery takes its name from New Zealand’s most common bedrock, which sounds incredibly geological and slightly boring until you realise it perfectly sums up the wines themselves. Everything here feels very Marlborough, but done with a bit more restraint, texture and confidence than the loud gooseberry-and-lawn-clippings style a lot of people expect. The Sauvignon Blancs still bring all the citrus, tropical fruit and sharp freshness you want, but there’s usually more depth, balance and proper winemaking underneath it all.

Greywacke has become especially well known for Wild Sauvignon, a barrel fermented Sauvignon Blanc that basically exists to confuse people who think Sauvignon Blanc can only taste like lime cordial and aggressively cut grass. It’s savoury, textured, smoky, slightly funky and ridiculously good with food. Their Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling are also seriously impressive, all carrying that same relaxed but quietly obsessive attention to detail.

What makes Greywacke so easy to like is that nothing feels overdone. The branding is clean, the wines are precise, and there’s a proper calm confidence running through the whole project. No desperate trend chasing, no nonsense “luxury lifestyle” waffle, just very good Marlborough wine made by people who clearly know exactly what they’re doing. It’s the sort of winery that wine nerds respect massively, but normal humans can still happily drink without needing a TED Talk beforehand.

There’s also something very Kiwi about the whole thing. Even with its global reputation, Greywacke still feels hands-on, relaxed and refreshingly unflashy. Underneath all the critical acclaim and cult status, these are still wines designed to be opened with food, friends and probably slightly too much sunshine.