THE MODERN GREATS TWIN-PACK

Two modern classics from the New World: The most famous wine of New Zealand, Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc, and a red from the legendary Ridge of California.

Packaged in a luxury hinged wooden gift box with a metal clasp and wood wool.

Price excludes delivery.

£70.00

GIFT PACKAGE INCLUDES

• 1 x Sauvignon Blanc 2011, Cloudy Bay

  "The 2011 Sauvignon Blanc offers intense notes of gooseberries, passion fruit, grapefruit zest and grass with a hint of fresh herbs. Crisp, dry and medium bodied with a good concentration of grapefruit and herb flavors, it gives a long tropical fruit laced finish. Delicious now, it should remain fresh through 2013. Rating: 90"- eRobert Parker.com

  Cloudy Bay have done it again with this latest vintage, producing the Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc by which all others will be judged. Fantastic intensity, great freshness and overflowing with green fruit flavour.

  Founded in 1985 Cloudy Bay became an iconic producer through its pungent, nettle-sharp Sauvignon Blanc. Since then, quality has been sky-high as it has had to be with the influx of high-quality competitors. Winemaker Kevin Judd has introduced a barrel-fermented Sauvignon ‘Te Koko’ as well as further varietals to enhance the diversity of the offerings but it is still the Sauvignon Blanc that sells out within a few weeks of the vintage.

• 1 x Lytton Springs 2008, Ridge

  The Lytton Springs blend is mostly Zinfandel, but the exact make-up of the wine varies according to vintage. However, every year it is reliably excellent and ages fantastically well.

  At the top of a mountain outside San Francisco there’s Ridge, who seem to have got just about everything right . The labels are iconic, the wines are outstanding. Beginning with their top wine, the Montebello and continuing through the Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet (a bargain considering it almost is Montebello – the wines are only separated after they’re in barrel) to the outstanding zinfandels from Geyserville and Lytton Springs, the whole range strikes a perfect balance between French elegance and Californian exuberance. Consistently delicious.