2025 Sauvignon Blanc
2024 Sauvignon Blanc
Tasting Notes:
Savor this wine with grilled chicken in a light cream sauce for a casual summer meal. Notes of pear, grapefruit and white pepper complement the smooth entry and lingering finish.
Winemaking Notes:
This Sauvignon blanc from Kraemer Vineyards in the Mount Angel area has been a nice addition to Airlie’s white wine selection. 2025 is our 3rd vintage of this popular varietal. The fruit was gently destemmed into the press to minimize stem and skin contact and a gentle pressing, stopped at just over 1 bar, gave us excellent juice. A long, cool ferment with temperature ranging between 55 and 60F, lasting about three and a half weeks and allowed to go dry produced this bright, crisp, aromatic wine. The wine was crossflow filtered and bottled under screwcap in January 2026.
Harvest Notes:
2025 kickstarted the growing season with a warm and early spring that continued into a warm summer with a little late-summer heat. Minimal rain led to a good fruit set in spring and low disease pressure throughout the growing season. This all culminated in a quick and compressed harvest beginning with Maréchal Foch on September 19th and wrapping up with Riesling on October 17th, one of our earliest picks here in our 40 years at Airlie. Great flavor concentration, balanced acidity and moderate alcohols means the 2025 wines will be excellent now and into the future.
Our estate vineyard, Dunn Forest, is LIVE certified sustainable and Salmon Safe. The vineyard is hand cultivated allowing us to respond to individual vine needs.
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