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Oyster Bay Winery
– Marlborough, New Zealand

“Marlborough is such a damned good place to grow vines. In fact, I’ll go further than that. It’s one of the greatest places on earth to grow them, producing some of the world’s most remarkable wines.” “Gold Medals at the 2006 & 2007 International Wines For Oysters Competition, and the Gold Medal and Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc Worldwide. It has also won the Australian Liquor Industry Award as the Premium White Wine Of The Year, a Silver Medal at the very first San Francisco International Wine Competition that the winery ever entered, and the People’s Choice Award at the 14th Annual Calgary Winefest!”

The Monthly Selection

2008 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

Winemaker, Michael Ivicevich: Pale straw green in colour with brilliant clarity, Oyster Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is zesty and aromatic with lots of lively, penetrating fruit characters. A concentration of assertive passion fruit, tropical fruit, and gooseberry flavours, with an abundant bouquet, it is a wine that is always crisp, elegant and refreshing. A concentration of assertive passion fruit and tropical fruit flavours As one journalist noted of it, “Everything for which Sauvignon Blanc is deservedly famous, is here in abundance: the gooseberries, the grassiness, the guava, and oodles of ‘zip’, ‘zap’ and ‘zing’

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The Oyster Bay Story

Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas, made the following effusive statement about Marlborough, New Zealand in1995: “Marlborough is such a damned good place to grow vines. In fact, I’ll go further than that. It’s one of the greatest places on earth to grow them, producing some of the world’s most remarkable wines.” As the wine world found out, Oz Clarke was absolutely right-on. When Oyster Bay Winery’s Sauvignon Blanc was declared – above the very best French Sancerre and Pouilly Fume, above California’s best, above every Sauvignon Blanc from everywhere – as the best in the world, the secret of Marlborough was out! This wine has, in subsequent vintages, won Gold Medals at the 2006 & 2007 International Wines For Oysters Competition, and the Gold Medal and Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc Worldwide. It has also won the Australian Liquor Industry Award as the “Premium White Wine Of The Year, a Silver Medal at the very first San Francisco International Wine Competition the winery ever entered, and the “People's Choice' Award” at the 14th Annual Winefest 2006 which was recently held in Calgary, Canada.

Set in the alluvial heart of Marlborough, one of the world's most recognized wine-growing regions, and a place as beautiful as it is abundant, you will find the vineyards that grew the reputation of Oyster Bay. Here, on the shallow stony soils of the tranquil Wairau Plains, where long, slow summers and cool autumn nights give birth to grapes of intense and fruity flavors, Oyster Bay began – from the very outset – to produce wines of international stature. Marlborough provides Oyster Bay with the perfect mix of sun and soil to produce wines of great character…and, not only world-class Sauvignon Blanc, but distinctive, assertive, cool-climate Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs that define the very essence – and exclusivity – of New Zealand viticulture. The philosophy of Oyster Bay is to produce fine, distinctly regional wines that are elegant and assertive, with glorious fruit flavors. It all starts in the vineyard. They treat each vineyard block and parcel of wine as individual. The fruit is crushed, gently pressed and the juice is cold settled. A long, slow temperature-controlled fermentation and immediate bottling after winemaking, retains all the wonderful fruit flavors and aromas that are present.

From its very first vintage, which won that Gold Medal, and the coveted “Marquis de Goulaine Trophy” for 'Best Sauvignon Blanc of the Competition' at the 22nd International Wine & Spirit Competition in London, Oyster Bay has continued to define the very stature and style of New Zealand wines. Described more recently by leading London wine writer, Giles Kime, as "Pretty close to being the elusive stuff of dreams," Oyster Bay takes its name from the local 'Oyster Bay' on the tip of New Zealand's majestic South Island. Oyster Bay's reputation has been built from vines grown in Marlborough's central Wairau Valley now recognized as one of the great wine growing regions of the entire world. With its cool, sunny, maritime climate and its shallow, stony soils etched across great alluvial plains by ancient glaciers, Marlborough is further described in Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas as "One of the greatest places on earth to grow vines, producing some of the world's most remarkable wines." Small wonder Oyster Bay has consistently won so many of the world's most-prestigious wine awards and the hearts of so many wine lovers from Sydney to Seattle, London to New York.

Internationally-recognised for producing "elegant, assertive wines with glorious fruit flavours", Oyster Bay is also a winemaker with great viticultural vision. It was Oyster Bay that also had the foresight, over two decades ago, to recognize the enormous wine-growing potential of another region that lay beneath the stony, alluvial soils of a marginal sheep farming district in New Zealand's Hawkes Bay. Today that region is now producing New Zealand's finest Merlots.

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