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’.

The grapes were sourced from an organically farmed single vineyard, in the Southern Wairau Valley, with silt and clay soils with some river gravels. Grapes were hand-harvested, and after pressing, the majority of the juice (65%) underwent wild fermentation in stainless steel tanks, whilst 35% was fermented in old French puncheons. Post-fermentation, the wine was left on its lees for 3 months with regular stirring. The majority of the wine underwent malolactic fermentation. The wine was bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.