MATAWHERO SINGLE VINEYARD GEWÜRZTRAMINER 2025

Winery notes (2025 Vintage)
"Sweet Jasmine, coupled with lychee and honeysuckle notes. Clean fruit-driven style, rich and full with lychee, Turkish delight, spice and ginger notes. A broad wine that persists well. Drinking well now but will reward with cellaring for 4-5 years.

Picked by machine in the early morning the grapes are transported to the winery without preservative as the berries are small with this variety are small and a little phenolic, Again the decision to pick was left to the winemaker. The juice on arrival is floated and fermented with M2 an aromatic yeast. As per usual the wine stopped fermentation at about 7 g/L of residual sugar and was racked and sulphured, stabilised then filtered and bottled."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, August 2025 (2025 Vintage)
"Fragrant and distinctive, there’s no mistaking the variety with a complex floral and spicy bouquet of fresh pomaceous fruits, white pepper and dried herb then red apple and white peach, roses and clay. Just dry with a tickle residual sweetness then flavours that reflect the bouquet driven by acidity and spice, some gently warming alcohol and luscious mouthfeel. A lovely wine that will develop complexity as it matures. Excellent food wine with best drinking from 2026 through 2030+."