ISOLATED HILL ROSÉ 2022

Gold Medal & 95/100 – North Canterbury Wine Awards 2023

Isolated Hill Rosé is quite a special discovery from a very special site. A lovely pale pink colour leads to the palate of ripe white peach and red melon. In addition to lovely fruit flavours there's a salivating saline, mineral quality that must only come from the limestone soils. Absolutely delicious!

Andy and Jill Black farm 700ha of family owned land. Their personal interest and focus on wine led them to plant their first vines in 2005. In the past they have supplied grapes to well known labels. Now recently they have decided to produce their own wine.

Isolated Hill is a 1.2ha vineyard on a perfect North facing slope in Waiau, North Canterbury. The nutrient rich limestone clay soil is similar to the terroir of Burgundy, the original home of Pinot Noir. Sitting beneath a working limestone quarry this wine is an expression of the many characters from its site.

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"Planted on the north facing slopes once walked by the mighty Moa, Isolated Hill Vineyard produces vibrant and complex wines. The wines attain their distinctive quality from the inverted soils caused by historic earthquakes that left basalt soil atop of calcareous limestone clays."