Deep Down Organic Sauvignon Blanc 2023

Deep Down Wines was founded by Peter Lorimer and Clive Dougall, who was Winemaker at Seresin Estate for 12 years where he produced Marlborough’s first certified organic wine. Their boutique winery is all about producing certified organic, small-batch, single-vineyard wines. They make just four small batches of wine from four different vineyard sites, a Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinto Noir, and a fascinating Arneis, little known in New Zealand.

The key to Deep Down, transparency. As well as being made from certified organic grapes, and having as little as possible added to the products, so that each wine is like a transparent window into each vineyard.

The business achieved B Corp certification on 2023, reflecting their dedication to ethical and sustainable business practices, and underlining their belief in the importance of ‘doing the right thing’.

From an organic Southern Wairau vineyard, 65% of the grapes fermented with wild yeast in stainless steel and 35% in old oak barrels. Most of the wine went through malolactic fermentation. Aged on lees for three months and bottled without fining, with minimal filtration.