Marlborough, New Zealand
GIESEN Sauvignon Blanc
AB +109535
Bottle: 12x750ml
Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc
Region: New Zealand
Alcohol: <0.5%
16 calories per 125ml serving
Bronze
World Alcohol Free Awards 2024
Judges Selection
Alberta Beverage Awards 2024
Tasting Notes
Aromatically expressive, crisp and refreshing, with the varietal characteristics you know and love… only with the alcohol gently removed. Delicate aromas of fresh lime, redcurrant, and lemon shortbread, delicious citrus flavours followed by distinct blackcurrant and passionfruit notes, and a crisp, dry finish.
How it’s Made
Made from our premium full-strength Sauvignon Blanc, Giesen 0% keeps all the best qualities of Giesen Estate. We create premium full-strength New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, before using advanced spinning cone technology to gently remove first the aroma, and then the alcohol. We collect the delicate aroma and recombine it with the wine to maintain its distinctive nose. The final blend is a dry, refreshing style of non-alcoholic wine with low calories, containing no more than 0.5% alc/vol.
About the Producer
Giesen is a family-owned, family operated winery that was founded by three brothers—Theo, Alex, and Marcel. The three sons of a stonemason were planning to follow the family enterprise in Germany. However, on a whim (and because it reminded them of home) in 1981, while they were travelling the world, Theo and Alex Giesen purchased land and planted a vineyard just outside Christchurch. At the time it was the world’s southern-most vineyard.
Younger brother Marcel took himself to winemaking school and four years later joined Theo and Alex to start making wine from their vineyard.
From that first vintage in 1984, Giesen made Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and it was an instant hit. At the time Marlborough was little known. However, drawing on their German heritage the three brothers recognised that cool-climate winegrowing created wines with flavour. Today they’re the proprietors of 13 vineyards across the Wairau Valley subregion of Marlborough.