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BRYTERLATER SVELTE RIESLING 2024

Product Code: 3513
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Riesling
Producer: Bryterlater

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 12.3%
Grape: 100% Riesling
Natural: Natural Wine, Practising Organics, Vegan Friendly

Original price was: $37.99.Current price is: $31.99.

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New Release, notes for the 2023 vintage below…

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"A nod to winemaker James Graves Opie's love of textural Germanic Riesling. This was harvested ripe with a tiny amount of botrytis to balance its natural acidity. Once harvested, the grapes were briefly soaked (24hr skin soak) to develop texture and palate weight, before being pressed into tank. Once settled the juice was transferred into aged large format French oak and aged sur lie until the following year.

The result is a wine with Riesling's hallmark citrus and grapefruit hues, but with lovely touches of juniper, candied apple and sea spray alongside. In a nutshell; a dry, textural Riesling but with complexity. Drinks all too well. Citrus, Lively, Saline, and Untamed."

94/100 David Walker Bell, WineFolio.co.nz, June 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"A wine from North Canterbury. A translucent green/lemon in the glass. Scented with grapefruit, lime, guava, candy apple, lychee, dried pineapple and juniper. The palate is tightly structured and basically dry, but there is a ripe fruit sweetness that adds contrast and balance. The acidity is salty, with a finger lime pop of freshness and drive. Good weight through the palate and a swell of texture gives more complexity. Silky phenolics rub shoulders with a quartzy minerality at the back of the palate, before a finish that is well balanced and long."

94/100 Jamie Goode, WineAnorak.com, November 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"These are the only machine picked grapes that James uses. Goes into press, left on skins for 24 h, then pressed to puncheons. The first vintage went to Pe Franco in keg, and the second went to Wine Diamonds in keg, so this is the first vintage that has been bottled. It comes from a hot vineyard on the gravels with some clay. This is very stylish with nice chalky minerality. Really textural with some depth here. Crystalline and very fine."

92/100 Kasia Sobiesiak, The Wine Front, July 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Made with texture in mind and it’s all that. Picked later with a little botrytis, cold-soaked for 24-hrs and after fermentation in a tank it was aged in old oak on lees. Texture with capital T. Deeply soft to start, flows with bitter citrus and quince, grapefruit and mango skin and a nutty finish. Can’t help but think, feel and say textural. Shapes and forms, chalky, chewy and unmistakably ripe giving flavour satisfaction and a great bright energy."

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Bryterlater wines are crafted with intent, honesty, and deep respect for the process. Using organically farmed grapes from North Canterbury, they employ minimal intervention practices in the winery to let the wines speak for themselves. Embracing the unique character of each season, they produce vibrant spring wines and complex, age-worthy styles. Their goal is to create thoughtfully made, juicy wines that capture vineyard energy and bring immense joy to those who experience them.

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