I tasted the 2003 vintage of this wine on 08 Jan 2005 when it was 2 years old and gave it a rating of ok+.
The colour was a light-medium greenish straw yellow. The bouquet showed crisp tropical and pineapple fruit. This wine had a light stalky oak start, tropical fruit, and a crisp dry finish. This was quite a complex style, but was not as intense as a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc would be expected to be.
I tasted the 2002 vintage of this wine on 22 Nov 2003 when it was 1 year old and gave it a rating of ok+.
The colour was a pale-medium greenish gold. The bouquet showed sharp citrus tropical fruit. The taste had a citric acid start, tropical fruit, and a crisp clean finish. This wine was quite pleasant, but didn't have as much varietal character as a Marlborough wine.
Note 1: I am not really a wine expert (just an enthusiastic amateur), so please don't take my recommendations as anything more than a rough guide to these wines. I can take no responsibility if you buy a lot of this particular wine, on my recommendation, and then regret it!
Note 2: You may not fully agree with my evaluation of these wines, as a lot of this is quite subjective. I tend to put a lot of emphasis on complexity and intense characteristic and varietal flavours and bouquet, so if you disagree you might just have different priorities.
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