Light but unique in character. This approachable Sauvignon Blanc is filled with aromas of passionfruit, grapefruit, gooseberry, and guava. Light straw color with a fresh, crisp finish.

VINTAGE CONDITIONS:
Temperatures were significantly warmer than average during the spring and summer months. These weather conditions caused bud burst to occur at the usual time, but vine growth and development rapidly increased with flowering, and harvest dates occurring earlier than ever before on most vineyards. A dry winter and spring with little effective rainfall resulted in reliance on irrigation with little disease incidence. All fruit varieties matured rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented compressed vintage. Fruitfully ripened with good flavor and varietal definition.

Nineteen Crimes turned criminals into Colonists. Upon conviction, British rogues, guilty of at least one of the 19 Crimes, were sentenced to live in Australia, rather than death. This punishment by ‘transportation’ began in 1788, and many of the lawless died at sea. For the rough-hewn prisoners who made it to shore, a new world awaited. As pioneers in a frontier penal colony, they forged a new country and new lives, brick by brick. This wine celebrates the rules they broke and the culture they built.