Gold Medal – New Zealand International Wine Show 2025
Gold Medal – New World Wine Awards 2025
Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"This wine is bursting with a complex array of aromatics including passionfruit, lime, green papaya, rock melon and honeysuckle. The palate is packed with intense flavours and a lovely weight and minerality. Crisp and dry on the finish.
2025 was marked by good flowering and a dry, warm summer which meant we could harvest each parcel of grapes when they reached ideal ripeness and flavour. This wine is 65% from our Awatere Valley vineyard and 35% from our Wairau Valley block. The vines in both blocks are well over 20yrs old. Careful, considerate viticulture ensures these vineyards continue to produce world-class fruit.
Each parcel of grapes was picked as it reached optimum ripeness with maximum passionfruit characters and while the acidity was still bright and crisp. The grapes were gently pressed before being fermented in stainless steel tanks with selected cultured yeast. We also fermented 10% with wild yeast (naturally present on the skins of the grapes) in old French barriques to give added complexity."
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, October 2025 (2025 Vintage)
"An excellent bouquet with focus and concentration, spice and core of fruit purity. Aromas and flavours of ripe, sweet grapefruit, spice and cape gooseberry along with a core of complexity with layers of floral tones and mineral. A satin touch on the palate swings to power with the acid line and core fruit flavours remain persistent and pure. Delicious, fresh, balanced and well made with best drinking from 2025 through 2028+."



























