Oyster Bay - Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

Oyster Bay - Marlborough Sauvignon BlancOyster Bay is a family company, still entirely New Zealand owned. Their vision and passion is to become one of the worlds truly great Super Premium winemakers. Proudly, the very first vintage of Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc won gold and the coveted Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc of the Competition at the 22nd International Wine & Spirit Competition in London in 1991. Since this time Oyster Bay has continued to define the very

The foundation of the wine at Achaval Ferrer are its vineyards with old vines with extremely low yields

and sipped an array of the top white Burgundies of France and a small sampling of upstart Chardonnays from the Napa Valley

exploration or quest

Scott Frank

Guy and Pierre who joined him

The soil (volcanic tuff stone and flysch)

fall far short of the permitted quantities in order to optimize grape quality

and then filtered and clarified

Dave Bennion

according to a picking schedule determined by plot

This is an area with a variety of soils including alluvial

Dan has been the winemaker at Averill Creek for years