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LAWSON’S DRY HILLS THE PIONEER GEWÜRZTRAMINER 2023

Stunning Gewürztraminer from vines nearly 40 years old, ‘with trunks as thick as thighs’

Product Code: 5890
Country: New Zealand
Region: Marlborough
Sub Region: Southern Valleys
Style: White
Variety: Gewürztraminer

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 12.5%
Grape: 100% Gewürztraminer
Natural: Vegan Friendly

Original price was: $37.99.Current price is: $32.99.

Stunning Gewürztraminer from vines nearly 40 years old, ‘with trunks as thick as thighs’

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From 40+ year old vines with trunks as thick as thighs, this unique wine embraces everything that is so good about Gewürztraminer. Hugely aromatic with a pronounced and pungent perfume, the ensuring palate is rich, weighty and oily with intense, lingering flavours of exotic fruits and spices. Haunting, unwavering and high desirable.

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"Lemon, lychee and mango along with lovely floral aromatics combine to produce a delightful nose. The palate is rich and rounded with great fruit concentration and intensity. The 2023 vintage provided a little more acidity which gives a nice balance to this is medium style wine.

The grapes for this wine come from the company’s original vineyard, planted in 1982, that surrounds the winery. These unirrigated vines are deeply rooted in clay soils which help to give the wine great intensity, weight and body, resulting in a rich, mouth-coating texture. Harvested at a ripe 24.8 brix, the grapes were gently pressed into French oak barriques where it was left to undergo spontaneous fermentation. After several months on lees the barrels were blended and the wine bottled here at the winery."

Reviews for previous vintages below…

5 Stars & 95/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, November 2021 (2020 Vintage)
"Absolutely delicious gewürztraminer with classic lychee, Turkish Delight, potpourri and anise spice favours. Made in an off-dry style, showing wonderful purity and intensity. A bargain at this price."

5 Stars Michael Cooper (2020 Vintage)
"Well worth cellaring, the 2020 vintage is an Alsace-style wine, estate-grown in the Home Block and fermented with indigenous yeasts in seasoned French oak barriques. From vines nearly 40 years old, ‘with trunks as thick as thighs’, it is a pale lemon/green, powerful young wine, fleshy and soft, with ripe, peachy, citrusy, spicy flavours, showing notable delicacy, complexity and depth, gentle sweetness (21 grams/litre of residual sugar), and a slightly oily richness. Still youthful, but already delicious, it should break into full stride 2023+."

We provide a door to door delivery service nationwide. Delivery charges are calculated on a 12 bottle case or part there of.

Delivery charges are calculated during the checkout process based off your address post code. Please ensure you choose the correct post code. We will advise you if you have chosen the incorrect post code.

You may also choose to 'pick up' your order from our wine shop at 188 Durham Street South, Christchurch.

For further details on prices and delivery options please go to the Delivery & Returns section of our site.

If for any reason you are not entirely happy with your order or you suspect that it may be affected by a quality issue, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will remedy the problem straight away. Contact us on (03) 3655134.

Note, for orders of 1 - 2 bottles we charge an additional $6 for packaging. To ensure the safety of the bottles we use specially designed posting boxes.

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