The color is pale green-yellow, and the aroma is vibrant with lemon and grapefruit. The wine has a fresh fruit flavor with a hint of white flowers, herbs, and saltiness, and the clean, cored acidity gives the wine a three-dimensional feel. Fields and soil
The vineyards are located at an altitude of 63m in the Southern Valley, facing gently north.
The soil is well-drained and contains a lot of pebbles and gravel from rivers, and is a sedimentary soil consisting of multiple layers of clay and river soil containing gravel and pebbles. 2022 was a warm spring, and we expected good growth without any worries about frost damage, but it was a difficult year for grape growing, with heavy rainfall from December when the flowers bloomed, and more than 200 mm of rain in February, which should be the height of summer. Due to this heavy rainfall, the wine is more elegant than the last three vintages. Folium Vineyard was founded in June 2010 in Brancott Valley, Marlborough, in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. Folium Vineyard aims to produce the highest quality wine by carefully growing Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The soil of the field is a mixture of clay brought by the movement of glaciers during the ice age and gravel carried by the flooding of the Wairau River. The soil contains a lot of clay, which allows the grapes to retain the moisture they need to grow even during the dry summer. By planting more trees than other fields in Marlborough, we can produce more concentrated and powerful fruit. In order to maintain New Zealand's clean environment, we follow the regulations of the organic farming certification organization "Biogro" (certified in 2014). "The best way to make high-quality wine is to grow high-quality grapes," says Mr. Okada, the grower and winemaker. We strictly limit yields in the fields, manage the canopy by removing leaves, and harvest all the fully ripe fruit by hand in the fall. In order to make the most of the characteristics of the harvested grapes, we keep human involvement in the winemaking process to a minimum and produce wine that reflects the terroir of Folium Vineyard.