Hebe White, Natural Wine, 2024

Hebe White is a natural wine made by Rebecca Salmond under the Hebe sub-label of Odyssey Wines, blending certified organic Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough with Gisborne Chardonnay and bottling with minimal sulphur addition.

Natural Wine | Minimal Intervention | Certified Organic

Tasting Notes

Abundantly fruity with ripe mango and marmalade notes on the nose. Creamy, the ripe fruit flavours carry through onto the palate, which is concentrated, textural, and has a backbone of fruit acidity and a lingering finish. DRY.

A textural, fruit-forward natural white blending Marlborough and Gisborne into something genuinely complex: rich and satisfying with the freshness that minimal intervention winemaking delivers.

Why you'll love it: Natural wine lovers who want character and length without going fully oxidative will find this delivers both. The multi-region, multi-variety blend gives it a complexity you rarely encounter at this price point.

The Blend

Hebe White 2023/2024 is made from handpicked 75% organic Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc from the Odyssey Southern Valley vineyard (2024) and 25% Mendoza Chardonnay from Gisborne's Golden Triangle (2023). Whole bunch pressed into French puncheons, then fermented wild to dryness with a full malolactic. The wine settled on lees before being racked and blended into tank pre-bottling with 10 ppm sulphur. Bottled late November 2024. Unfiltered and unfined.

About Hebe by Odyssey

Hebe is the natural organic wine produced by Odyssey Wines in Marlborough. These are challenging and exciting wines fully reflective of the Southern Valley terroir from which they come: nothing added and nothing taken away. The wines are unfiltered and unfined, with all yeast and bacteria coming from the grape, and the natural fining coming from time on its own lees in the barrel. Hebe is named after the Greek goddess of youth, daughter of Hera and Zeus, reflecting the vitality and natural energy of these terroir-driven wines.

Perfect with fresh oysters with mignonette, a warm goat cheese tart, or grilled market fish with herb butter. The natural acidity and textural complexity bridge delicate and creamy preparations equally well.

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