Clos Henri Otira Glacial Stones Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Otira Glacial Stones Single Vineyard Marlborough 2023; 96pts Parker’s WA: Pinnacle Stunning New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc!

Sauvignon Blanc fans from the Loire to the new world, this wine will blow you away. The Clos Henri Sauvignon Blanc Otira Glacial Stones Single Vineyard Marlborough 2024 has received a major 96pts by Parker’s WA The quality of this wine has a lot to do with the people behind it. Clos Henri is found at the southern foothills of Marlborough’s Wairau Valley. Clos Henri was established in 2000 by masters of Sauvignon Blanc, the Bourgeois family of the Loire who have refined their skills over ten generations in Sancerre making some of the finest Sauvignon Blanc’s out there at Henri Bourgeois. Given the estate’s roots there is no surprise they have nailed it in Marlborough New Zealand, famous for Sauvignon Blanc and exemplified in this spectacular bottling of Otira Glacial Stones. It’s an absolute bargain for the quality and delivers a level of complexity and depth not often found in a bottle of white at this price point.

The 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. 96pts Parker’s WA