Craggy Range Te Muna Sauvignon Blanc 2025
Grown on Te Muna’s lower, rockier terrace, this is Sauvignon Blanc with more salt and stone than passionfruit sweetness.
Grape Varietals & Region: 100% Sauvignon Blanc. The fruit is grown on the lower terrace of Te Muna Road Vineyard in Martinborough. The vines grow in volcanic rocky, clay soils and enjoy a cool maritime climate.
Taste Profile: Craggy Range Te Muna Sauvignon Blanc shows a unique level of texture and complexity. Very pale straw colour. Aromatic with a steely minerality, the nose has fresh aromas of passion fruit and kaffir lime leaf. The textural palate is dry with a crunchy acidity and a saline finish that will have you reaching for another glass.
Winemaking Process: Partial hand harvesting of the fruit. 10% whole bunch and 90% destemmed fermentation in stainless steel tanks and French oak barriques using partial wild yeasts. The wine ages on its lees for 5 months in old and new French oak barrels before fining, filtering and bottling.
Winemaker: Craggy Range was founded in 1998 by Terry and Mary Peabody, expanding into Martinborough’s Te Muna Road the following year in search of the region’s oldest loess soils. Chief winemaker Matt Stafford now oversees the Martinborough range under Julian Grounds, building on founding viticulturist Steve Smith MW’s site-by-site philosophy treating Te Muna’s upper and lower terraces as genuinely distinct wines rather than one blended label.
