Wild Ferment to try and step it up from the usual mix of Marlborough.

Stoneleigh, Wild Valley, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, 2016

Smells almost like sweet wine: a flabby heavy nose of stone fruit combined with gooseberry, passionfruit jam, cumquat. Ripe palate with baked apple richness before fading to lighter tropical qualities: melon, passion fruit and greener gooseberry. Avoids too much grassiness but still slightly disappointing considering the name.

RRP: $19.99
Alc: 13%
Rating: 15/20

Wine sample courtesy of Stoneleigh