Seifried Sauvignon Blanc (Organic) 2022 - Nelson, New Zealand

93/100 Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Bronze - Wine Enthusiast
93/100 Bob Campbell, The Real Review (2021 vintage)
90/100 Wine Enthusiast (2021 vintage)
90/100 Decanter (2021 vintage)
91/100 Wine Enthusiast (2020 vintage)
90/100 Bob Campbell, The Real Review (2020 vintage)
Bronze - New Zealand Wine Rater (2020 vintage)

Gold - Mundus Vini
Silver - Decanter World Wine Awards
Silver - Concours Mondial du Sauvignon
Bronze - International Wine & Spirit Competition
Bronze - International Wine Challenge
Gold - Berlin Wine Trophy (2021 vintage)
Gold - San Francisco Internation Wine Competition (2021 vintage)
Silver - China Wine Competition (2021 vintage)
Silver - International Wine Challenge (2021 vintage)
Silver - Decanter World Wine Awards (2021 vintage)
Bronze - International Wine & Spirit Competition (2021 vintage)
Silver - China Wine Competition (2020 vintage)
Silver - Hongkong IWSC (2020 vintage)
Silver - London Wine Competition (2020 vintage)
Silver - International Wine Challenge (2020 vintage)
Bronze - International Wine & Spirit Competition (2020 vintage)
Bronze - Decanter World Wine Awards (2020 vintage)

Bob Campbell, The Real Review "Intense, weighty sauvignon with delicious passionfruit, green capsicum, grapefruit and lemongrass flavours. Thirst-quenching wine with refreshing acidity and an ethereal texture. Good value at this price."

Wine Enthusiast "Ripe lime, grapefruit, passion fruit and honey are accompanied by a more synthetic note that's a touch distracting. Nevertheless, there's plenty to like here, including bright acidity, a long mouthfeel and a burst of citrus and stone fruit on the palate."

Decanter World Wine Awards "Fresh peach, guava and sweet red apple with a mineral baseline; tight and zingy with a lasting finish."

Bob Campbell, The Real Review "Fresh, punchy sauvignon blanc with lime, passionfruit, capsicum and lemongrass flavours supported by fruity acidity. An attractive wine from a top vintage." (2021 vintage)

Wine Enthusiast "Like slicing into a green bell pepper, this has a crisp summer veg vibe from the get-go that never feels reductive or forced. Add snap pea and green bean to the list, too. There's fruit aplenty as well, in the form of passion fruit and guava. The acidity is currently piercing, but give this another few months in the bottle and it should settle. The juicy fruit really shines on the palate. " (2021 vintage)

Decanter "Bright focused and polished,williams pear and orchard fruit. Structurally balanced between acid and fruit concentration. Flint on the finish." (2021 vintage)

Wine Enthusiast "The Nelson region, at the top of the South Island, makes Sauvignon similar to that of neighboring Marlborough while still walking to its own beat. This bottling, with a touch of age, is a great example. The nose is lucid with vivid notes of lemon balm, nettle, freshly sliced bell pepper and cut grass. The palate is equally well composed, with depth and length of flavor and a lovely lift of acidity. " (2020 vintage)

Bob Campbell, The Real Review "One of the first 2020 wines I've tasted. Restrained, ripe and delicately succulent wine with passionfruit, melon and blackcurrant bud flavours. A gentle, mouth-watering wine with appealing purity." (2020 vintage)

London Wine Competition "Seifried is the premium label of Seifried Estate. The fruit for these wines are grown on established vines, usually in excess of eight years of age. The Seifried wines are often blends of fruit grown on several of the Estate vineyards, enabling the production of wines with fantastic depth and complexity." (2019 Vintage)

Wine Spectator "... Seifried is a winery located in the lesser-known Nelson appellation on the northern tip of the South Island, just west of Marlborough. The region has the highest sunshine hours in all of New Zealand. Further inland, mountain ranges to the east, south and west provide shelter for the valleys and benchlands, while the northern areas benefit from a more maritime climate. The summers are warm and relatively dry and the nights cool. Seifried pulls from two vineyard sources to make this complex and juicy white. One is just 10 miles from the coast, adding liveliness to the wine, while the other is sheltered from the coast, with stony soils yielding riper fruit."

The Real Review "The Seifried family now farm over 200 hectares across eight sustainably accredited vineyards in the Nelson region. Wines are exported to 21 countries around the globe and all three Seifried “children” are fully involved in the family business. The Seifried family really are, pioneering family winegrowers."

Decanter "Born in Austria, Hermann Seifried studied winemaking in his homeland and in Germany before moving to South Africa to gain hands-on experience with KWV. His next (and so far final) step on his journey was to New Zealand, where he arrived without a word of English in his vocabulary.
Here he met (Sweet) Agnes, [which some of his wines are named] whom he married in 1971. They held a joint ambition to plant their own vineyard in Nelson at the very north of New Zealand’s South Island, where they spotted the immense potential. Despite the naysayers who claimed that Nelson was too far south and too cold an environment in which to fully ripen grapes, they pressed ahead, and 1973 marked the planting of the first vines, with the first vintage released three years later."

London Wine Show "Seifried Estate is a company devoted to sustainable winegrowing and producing the very best Nelson [New Zealand] has to offer."

Seifried Estate was created by New Zealand winemaking pioneers, Austrian-born Hermann Seifried and his New Zealander wife Agnes. They planted their first grapes in the Moutere Valley near Nelson and made their first wine in 1976. Seifried is a founding member of 'Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand' and was an early adopter of the programme when both the winery and vineyard auditing programmes were first established in the New Zealand wine industry in the mid-1990s. The programme aims to deliver a framework for viticultural and winemaking practices that protect the environment while efficiently and economically producing premium wine grapes and wine.

Nelson is a small, little-known wine region at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island. Surrounded on three sides by mountains, it enjoys a unique microclimate that is perfect for aromatic grape varieties. Wines made from Riesling, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer are considered to be some of the best in New Zealand.

Sauvignon Blanc is currently the bestselling white wine in Singapore. It pairs well with white meats including Chicken, Pork, and Turkey. It also complements Fish. Sauvignon Blanc is a white-wine grape from western France, now successfully grown in emerging and established wine regions all over the world. While the grape may be more readily associated with the Loire Valley (for its pivotal role in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé), it is more likely to have originated from Bordeaux, where it is typically blended with Semillon.