Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"This Cabernet Franc has aromatic characteristics of violets, red currants, and kirsch cherries with subtle influences of dried lavender and hibiscus tea. Flavours of cherry, vibrant plums, green peppers, and sweet new leather followed by an acidic backbone and voluminous mouth-coating tannins. This elegant wine provides a seamless, silkiness mouthfeel, and a well-balanced wine.
The fruit was carefully hand-picked, sorted, destemmed, and then fermented in small, open top oak puncheons with indigenous yeast. Daily pigéage was done by hand and after 3 weeks on skins the wine was gently pressed, settled, and aged in seasoned oak. A natural spring malolactic fermentation occurred and after 14 months of élevage the wine was racked, bottled unfined and unfiltered."
5 Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"A delicious mouthful, the 2021 vintage was estate-grown at Rapaura, in the Wairau Valley. Full-coloured and fragrant, it is mouthfilling, savoury and smooth, with concentrated, ripe, blackcurrant-like flavours, hints of plums, herbs and spices, oak complexity and fine, supple tannins. A very harmonious red, already drinking well, it should be at its best 2025+. Certified organic."