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Buy OnlineThe Real Review’s Rising Star of the Year New Zealand 2025 Finalist (Top 3)
After spending a decade making wine in the Cahors region of South-West France, as well as collectively working forty plus vintages across nine different countries; Simon and Lauren have returned back to New Zealand to make wine under their own label ‘A Thousand Gods’. Their aim is to make wines they can call their own, both representative of site, yet in their own way, surprisingly unique.
Working closely with their biodynamic grower in the Waihopai Valley of Marlborough, meticulously farmed grapes are hand-picked and undergo wild fermentation. No additions, fining or filtration processes are used. Instead, thoughtful guidance into becoming wines that are generous and approachable, yet also complex and cellar-worthy.
Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"100% petit manseng from the magnificent Churton vineyard. This wine is as rare as hen's teeth. There is currently only 1ha of petit manseng planted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Churton vineyard have 60% of it, so we were absolutely over the moon when the Weaver family offered us the chance to work with this wonderful grape here in NZ. We believe this variety is one of the greatest white grapes on the planet, but it is very little known outside of its home region of Jurançon in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
Petit manseng when kept as a single variety is typically made into off-dry and sweet wines- but we've made a bone dry version. The 2024 No Devices is deep gold in the glass and showcases unmistakable petit manseng varietal aromas of mango, pineapple, passion fruit, orange peel and jasmine with caramel and marmalade. The palate is extremely concentrated, with bracing acidity and a long, dry finish, which belies the dessert-wine profile of the nose. This is a truly unique wine with enormous cellar potential, rewarding those who have the patience to hold it. Unfined, unfiltered, no added sulphites."
