Cameron Douglas: Two Rivers 'Convergence' Sauvignon Blanc 2025, Marlborough

Two Rivers 'Convergence' Sauvignon Blanc 2025, Marlborough   

RRP from $22.00  

Pungent, ripe, varietal and high energy. Aromas of red bellpepper and apple, fresh citrus peel and white peach, there’s also green mango and cape gooseberry as well as fresh basil. On the palate – youthful, equally high energy with laser-like acidity, flavours of fresh fruits led by citrus, then tropical and white stone fruit. A high energy wine best enjoyed from day of purchase through 2029. Exceptional value.  

  

Food match:  

• One of the many classic matches with sauvignon blanc is Oysters. Not everyone can do oysters, so steamed mussels work just as well.  
• These first two are match of contrast – salty food needs a high acid wine.  
• Another rule with food is that a richly textured food can have a higher acid wine for contrast; a dessert with cream or ice-cream should have a high acid wine like a sweet sauvignon blanc for contrast, as well as weight from the sugar in the wine.  
• The match options with sauvignon blanc are endless.

  

The season:   

A gift to the NZ wine sector with near perfect growing conditions. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at B and.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Have you looking for a good drop this weekend? Master
somalier Cameron Douglas has chosen his recommendation. It's the Two
Rivers Convergence Sauvignon Blanc twenty twenty five from Marlborough. It
retails for about twenty two bucks and Cameron is with
us now Calder Cameron, Good morning, Caudra tell us about
the convergence.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, it's called convergence because it is the origin of
the fruit comes from both the Arbitterri Valiant River and
the Wairau Valiant River areas in Marlborough. So it's bringing
those two ideas of soil and fruit and energy all
into one blend.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah nice. What does it taste like?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, it's We're seeing a lot of twenty twenty fives
come onto the market at this time of year, and
I've chosen one that really ticks all the boxes of pungent,
right rital, high energy characters. So it delivers on flavors
of everything from bell piper to lime peel, to apple

(01:15):
to white peach. It even has that sort of tropical
lick of green mango that I really like in Cape Gooseberry.
Some people find Sauvignon Blanc have like a fresh herbaceousness
to it as well, which I call basil or sage
in a wine. But it really is this wine that
has a youthful, high energy, laser like acidity about it,

(01:37):
lots of fresh fruit flavors. It's just so delightful and
salivating on the palette.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, it sounds great. So the twenty twenty five and
has must I mean this must have only just at
the market.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Right, absolutely true. I've been tasting wine at home this
morning and I've had a couple of reaslings Gavert's treminas
and Sauvignon blancs as well, so they're starting to come
across my desk for a review.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh very good. So what would you match with the
two rivers convergence of Nan Blanc.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, this one's all about crunch, It's all about intensity
and pungency. So I think food that is either crunchy
or fresh, salty or rich works very well with Sauvignon Blanc.
And I have a couple of different options for listeners
to consider. And if you like fresh oysters, then Sovin
Blanc is definitely a classic match for you. However, not

(02:28):
everybody likes oysters. So if you are into muscles, freshly
harvested barbecue on the boat, green lip mussels are nice
and salty for Sauvignon blanc, it works really really well.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah that sounds yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing. How has
the twenty twenty five vintage been for those marble producers.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it's a really good question, and it's been pretty
near perfect actually, And I think it's all about the
delicacy and the thresholds of ripening and growing of fruit
from flowering first and foremost those conditions at right then
the croploads are perfect, and then you have to meet
the threshold of fruit set, which happens shortly after and

(03:15):
again this was near perfect for them, and then no
disease pressure. So it's a wonderful, wonderful vintage. It really
is a gift of nature back to us and giving
us or giving us wines that we're really going to
appreciate and enjoy. And if you find a wine that
has this little saltiness on the finish, that's part of

(03:36):
the acid line that really does get the taste buds alive.
It sort of wakes them up.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, it's as stupid cameraon thank you. So that's the
Two Rivers convergence. Somnon Blanc twenty twenty five is the
vintage and it retails for about twenty two dollars. Will
make sure the details are on our website.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
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