SHEILD ALBARIÑO 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"Originating from Galicia – Albarino is lively like the Spanish people! Lemon in colour, the vibrancy of -announcing the punchiness to come. It has pronounced primary aromatics of lime and honeysuckle. Secondary aromas hint at lees contact and are reminiscent of beeswax. This wine has excellent attack thanks to the brisk acidity and continues on to offer a pleasing, layered mouth filling experience. A gentle salinity typical to the variety means it pairs fabulously with Kaimoana and crisp garden-fresh salads."

5 Stars & 93/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, January 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Pristine and delicately fragrant, the bouquet shows nectarine, green pear, crunchy apple, and lemon peel aromas, leading to a brightly expressed palate offering juicy fruit intensity combined with fine texture and zesty acidity, finishing long and refreshing. At its best: now to 2027."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, January 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Excellent intensity and impact with a bouquet of yellow flowers and ripe citrus, there’s a mix of peach and lemon then a saline seaside air quality. Mineral and fresh, steely and urgent. On the palate there’s impact from acidity and vibrancy, flavours of citrus and white fleshed stone fruits, some green gauge plum ideas and a saline edge. Delicious, salivating and fresh, a wine ready to enjoy from day of purchase through 2029."

4 Stars Cuisine NZ & International Albariño, February 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Bright in the glass with aromas of lime juice and zest alongside rich honeysuckle blossoms on the nose. The palate is bracing and alive with good concentration of flavour and plenty of taut acidity which gives the wine lots of drive and persistence."