Product Notes
WINEMAKER'S COMMENTS
A typical Thelema Sauvignon Blanc – lovely fresh melon and grapefruit flavours, with a full palate that is perfectly balanced.Unwooded and well-balanced, with fresh melon and grapefruit flavours, and a full palate and zesty finish.
MATURATION Drinking well now, and will develop well for 2-3 years.
FOOD PAIRING As an apertif, or with delicately flavoured foods like salads, oysters, scallops and chicken.
VITICULTURAL PRACTICES
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Soil type: Hutton – decomposed granite
Age of vines: Planted 1985, 1993, 1997, 2002 and 2007
Plant density: 2100-3200 vines per ha
Trellising: Vertical hedge
Pruning: 2-bud spurs every 15cm and Cane Pruning
Yield: approx. 12t/ha
Irrigation: supplementary drip
Vintage: The earliest recorded harvest in Sutherland history! Cool summer days with very little rain, resulting in ideal growing conditions for grapes.
Picking dates: 26 January - 15th February
Grape sugar: 22°B
Acidity: 7.57
pH at harvest: 3.28
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