White Wine
Sauvignon Blanc
Sustainable
Dry
Light Bodied
750ml

Paddy Borthwick 'Paper Road' Sauvignon Blanc Hawkes Bay 2024

Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

91 points - WineAlign

$23.95per bottle ($287.40per case)
12 bottles per case

Quantity

Fruity & Floral

Established in 1996, this family-owned and managed vineyard produces wine with flavours that are a direct reflection of the Gladstone region. Ancient stony, alluvial soils and a cool climate allows the grapes to grow in harmony in their environment. Sustainable practices and minimal intervention in the vineyard and winery allow our wines to display their distinctive single vineyard characteristics.

The harvested fruit was processed quickly into tank to retain the vibrant aromas and fresh acidity. The tank portion is fermented slow and cool to retain the varietal characters of Sauvignon Blanc. The wines are aged on light yeast lees for nine months before blending, fining and filtration.

A fragrant lift of spiced stone fruit, tropical fruits with a hint of dark herb notes. Packed with flavour, a core of ripe nectarine and lemon-lime acidity, finishing with passionfruit and blackcurrant.

About the Winery

Paddy Borthwick

Proudly family owned, the Borthwick vineyard is an established vineyard situated in Gladstone, the heart of the Wairarapa. Producing quality wine for over a decade, Paddy, an experienced wine maker, has gained a reputation for producing consistently great wines. The twenty seven hectares of vines bordering the Ruamahunga River are growing on stony, free draining, alluvial soils, with a micro climate giving warm daily temperatures, cool nights and low rainfall; perfect conditions for producing distinctive, quality wines.

In line with the family’s legacy of international trade, 90 percent of the wine is exported around the world. Paddy believes in sustainability and best practice within a vineyard, developing an asset for generations to come.

Press Reviews

WineAlign

91 points - David Lawrason

This is from the Wairarapa Valley on the North Island, a region more well known for its core appellation of Martinborough. This is upriver and a bit more inland and warmer, so there is a more tropical guava tilt to the fruit (quite unlike Marlborough on the South Island). There is also a hint of sulphur, and grapefruit. It is medium bodied, fleshy, a touch sweet and enlivened by a dash of CO2. Fruit concentration and length are excellent. Tasted October 2026

90 points - John Szabo, MS

A lively and bright, fresh sauvignon here from Borthwick in Wairarapa (North Island), complete with a judicious addition of CO2 (notable effervescence), which works into the ensemble. There's a nice mix of grapefruit and green peach, lemon-lime flavours, also succulence and persistence. Sharp value - punches comfortably above the mean in this price/variety category. Tasted October 2026.

90 points - Michael Godel

Amazingly sharp and zingy sauvignon blanc, crisp, clean and pristine. Solicits salivary activity with its energy and excitement, offers waves of white wine pleasure, never relents, and finishes with a delicious dose of exotically-charged key lime. Crunchy stuff and built for all. Drink 2026-2028. Tasted October 2026.