LAWSON’S DRY HILLS RANU 2023

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"As you might expect from this special co-ferment of Riesling, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer, this wine has a beautiful floral nose and array of fruit characters including red apple, lime and white peach. The palate is dry with intense flavours and a lovely mineral character, particularly from the Riesling component. All three varieties make their presence felt with the Riesling providing an acid focus, the Pinot Gris giving a lushness to the mid-palate and the Gewurztraminer bringing weight and a little phenolic structure.

The grapes were handpicked, then pressed together and the juice transferred into one old French puncheon and one old French barrique for wild fermentation. The wine remained on lees in barrel until bottling in late December."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"‘Ranu’ is a co-fermentation of Pinot Gris, Riesling and Gewurztraminer delivering a bouquet of complexity and freshness, each variety gives an equal power and intensity of flavours on the palate from the ripe baked pear of Gris, lemon and apple of Riesling and floral spicy top notes of Gewurz’. A silky texture touches the palate then the spice and acid line from each variety layers in a salivating mouthfeel. Drinking perfeclty now and through 2029."