2024 Clos Henri "Otira - Glacial Stones" Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough
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Review Date: 06/2025The 2024 Otira Glacial Stones Sauvignon Blanc is just such a fantastic wine. I love it every year. Mineral tension, poise and elongated shape are the hallmarks of this wine. The wine has a smell of fresh sheets, crisp, crushed shells, white spice and ocean air. I appreciate the length and stretch of this wine—it fully extends and lingers, and there is a textural pulsing and undulation. It is truly excellent. 2024 was a warm vintage and produced wines of amplitude and volume, yet here the terroir has compressed the fruit into its own shape. So, with the coupling of the season and the terroir, we have this. It's a triumph among triumphs. The numbers of this wine are mad/impressive to behold: very low pH (2.97), a good level of total acidity (6.5) and 14% alcohol. Years of high-density planting and organic management (since 2010, certified 2013) in this place has enabled a wine of balance to achieve these numbers. (EL)
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Notes
Clos Henri, founded in 2000, is part of the family tradition of Domaine Henri Bourgeois, which reaches back ten generations in the Loire Valley. The founders, including brothers Rémi and Jean Marie Bourgeois, knew that expanding their Domaine in Sancerre was not possible, so they explored a multitude of other regions. After a multi year global search for terroir that would match the quality to Sancerre, they selected the Wairau Valley in Marlborough as the site for Clos Henri. Their goal was to produce wines that combine the precision and “sense of place” of their French heritage with the unique soils, climate, and light of New Zealand. They farm organically, focus on oil diversity, do not irrigate, and utilize high-density vineyards, so that each wine reflects both Marlborough’s character and the Bourgeois family’s lineage.
Product Details
Origin: New Zealand
Type/Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc
SKU: #1932862