Imagine an almond cake full of white nectarine, blood orange and melon laced with linseed, tarragon and lightly smoked tea. Greywacke Wild Yeast Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough is an alternative style that is both intricate and textural, a concoction created by fermenting entirely with naturally occurring yeast.

Fruit was sourced from various vineyard sites where a perfect growing season produced magnificent, ripe Sauvignon Blanc fruit. Some vineyards were harvested by machine and others by hand and put into old French oak barriques and two-thirds of the barrels underwent malolactic fermentation. It was transferred out of oak prior to the following harvest and left on yeast lees for a further five months prior to bottling.