Gold Medal – New Zealand Organic Wine Awards 2023
Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Intense aromas of dark cherry lifted by fragrant violet and sage. A layered palate with bilberry, plum with subtle forest floor notes and subtle spice. An elegant wine with classy tannins and a long vibrant finish."
5 Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"Certified organic and biodynamic, the 2021 vintage was estate-grown at Bendigo, hand-picked from vines planted in 1998, and matured for a year in French oak barriques (26 per cent new). Full, bright ruby, it is enticingly perfumed, with mouthfilling body and deep, ripe cherry, plum and spice flavours, nutty, savoury and complex. A very harmonious wine, delicious in its youth, it's also well worth cellaring."
Rated Outstanding & 96/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Fantastic bouquet with a sense of place and time, aromas of forrest berries and bracken, mineral and wood spices, fresh dark cherries, plums, wild black currant and porcini mushroom. Completely delicious on the palate, texture driven and youthful, flavours of pinosity and sense of place with flavours of soil and spice, core of red fruits and fine toasty barrel qualities. Firm tannin s nad medium+ acid line, a long finish with pinosity, charm and elegance. Great drinking from late 2023 through 2030+."
5 Stars & 96/100 Sam Kim, Wne Orbit, August 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"This is stunningly beautiful and engaging; the complex bouquet shows sweet cherry, olive, game and roasted nut characters, leading to a splendidly layered palate that's silky and creamy. The wine offers terrific fruit purity combined with seductive savoury nuances, finishing impressively long and velvety. Certified organic. At its best: now to 2036. "
Rated Excellent, 5 Stars & 94/100 NZ Wine Rater, August 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Perfumed, vinous, complex almost Barolo-like bouquet with aromas of roses, sun-drenched strawberries, graphite, dark chocolate and creamy, vanilla pod oak. Youthful, concentrated wine – silky and textural with fine, savoury tannins."
94/100 Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, December 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"This has depth and levity, richness and yet balance. It’s red and black cherries, mushroom, alpine herbs, ginger and clove spice. All of this in good measure, a gentle seasoning for the potent fruit character. Great length of flavour, a web of fine, lacy tannins lending some shape but the wine does spread luxuriously and softly in the palate. Great drinking. Enriching."