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“The 2024 season was a contrast to 2023, coming with a sting – or in this case, a grand finale – at the end. It was a splendid season, and the general feeling is that 2024 will be remembered alongside 2013, 2001 and 1998 as an outstanding year.
The aromatic profile is complex and distinctively “other” fruit. The wine transports you to a place where one experiences potentially unexplored territories of colour and feeling. The richness and decadence of the nose are unmistakable and laced with white flowers like daphne, clover and Christmas lilies. If the acidity in the Chardonnay 2024 is a river, here with the Pinot Gris it is a spring. The wine bubbles up to the surface, gushing out over the palate. There is acidity and plenty of tannins that rally to give order and structure. But the anarchy is stronger. There is not one direction in which this wine flows. It is dynamic; it pulls and draws with voluptuous weight and buoyancy.
Hand-harvested fruit was pressed the following day, cold. After a light settling, the juice was racked into large 600-litre oak barrels for a long and slow spontaneous ferment over 18 months. It was then transferred into a stainless-steel vessel before being bottled, unfined, in December 2025.”
5 Stars & 96/100 Srewphen Wong MW, The Real Review, June 2026 (2024 Vintage)
“Oraterra’s second vintage couldn’t be more different than the challenging 2023. A small, concentrated harvest enabled winemakers Wilco Lam, Sam Rouse and Tom de Hamel to craft a fabulously rich yet elegant example of ripe pinot gris. Wild-fermented in large 600-litre oak barrels over 18 months (!) it was then aged further in stainless steel and bottled unfined.
Incredibly complex, this explosively concentrated and spicy pinot gris bursts with honeyed flavours of cinnamon brioche, baked pear, mango, vanilla and manuka honey wrapped in a sinfully decadent creamy texture. The flavour intensity creates an illusion of the wine tasting sweeter than it actually is before tapering to a just off-dry finish where peppery phenolics close in. Rich enough to be enjoyable already, it will reward patience if left to develop more complexity over the next year or two.”
95/100 Emma Jenkins MW, Decanter UK, August 2025 (2024 Vintage)
“Layered, complex, with orchard fruits, spice and honey, dry, rich in fruit with a very fine texture. Thoughtful, elegant and very delicious. Wilco Lam likes decadence but not flamboyance in his Pinot Gris, and has admirably walked that particular knife’s edge with the 2024 vintage. Cellar, if you can resist its immediate charms. Organic.”
94/100 David Walker Bell, WineFolio.co.nz, May 2026 (2024 Vintage)
“A pale golden colour in the glass. The perfume is beguiling and complex. Beginning with apricot, quince and freshly sliced pear, there is also an exotic floral note of orchid and jasmine. The palate is equally layered, with a groundswell of bright acidity and a grainy fruit tannin adding texture and depth. Reasonably weighty, with a fleshy texture that fills the mouth but not so much that the fruit is lost, as that fresh acidity carries it along. Nutmeg, cardamom and powdered ginger creep into the finish, that is long and pure.”
94/100 Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, June 2026 (2024 Vintage)
“This wine wraps its arms around you and makes you feel special. It’s smoky, vanillin, ripped with nectarine, waxed apples, brine and preserved lemon flavours and feels/tastes both impressive and delicious throughout. This is a wine of both presence and weight. Indeed this is a wine that sets you back on your heels just a bit.”
