Church Road Grand Reserve Sauvignon Blanc

Formerly known as Church Road’s Reserve range they’ve given the wines a slick, stealth like black label and slapped the word “Grand” in the name.

So that’s the marketing job done, what about the wine? Are they actually Grand? Are they what! These are sheer world class wines, up there with the best you’ll find in Hawke’s Bay. That’s why you’ll only find Church Road wines under this label released in great vintages from low-cropping vineyard blocks (to ensure more concentrated, ripe flavours), hand-harvested and produced using small batch, traditional techniques.

This 2019 vintage has had a handful of rave reviews here and overseas…

93/100 (Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review)
“One of the better Hawke’s Bay barrel-fermented sauvignon blancs that I have tasted. Subtle nectarine and tree fruit flavours mingle with a distinct oyster-shell and mineral character with subliminal oak. A good food wine. Bone-dry with a mouth-watering finish. Will repay cellaring. Drink to 2028”

5 Stars (Cuisine magazine 2021)
“Plenty going on in this stunning Hawke’s Bay example.”

91/100 (Tim Atkin MW, International Wine Challenge London)
“Fresh and flavoursome wine with an abundance of passion fruit and gooseberry aromas and zesty citrus fruit flavours.”

If you’re looking to pair this world class, oak aged Sauvy with a feed well follow the advice of the judges at Decanter who said “An intuitive use of oak complements the ripeness of fruits, brooding well with complexity depth and crying out for fish and chips.”