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Trophy for Champion Other White Wine Varieties – Hawkes Bay Wine Awards 2024
Double Gold Medal – New Zealand International Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal – Hawkes Bay Wine Awards 2024
Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"The Advocate Albariño is grown in the Bridge Pa Triangle sub-region of Hawke’s Bay. Warm temperatures and free draining silt over red metal gravels provide perfect growing conditions.
Fruit for this wine is harvested and gently pressed, before the clarified juice underwent fermentation in both stainless steel tanks and old French oak barrels. Post fermentation, the wine was kept on yeast lees with periodic stirring to introduce complexity and texture.
Expressive aromatics of ripe lime and peach are a prelude to an intensely fresh and juicy palate with a sweet, salted core of citrus fruits providing a mouthwatering finish."
5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, September 2024 (2024 Vintage)
"A fabulous rendition of the variety, showing white flesh peach, fresh fig, green pear and jasmine notes on the nose. The palate displays excellent weight and focus, splendidly framed by fine texture and bright acidity, finishing long and exuberant. At its best: now to 2028."
92/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2024 (2024 Vintage)
"Varietal and fresh, flavours of fresh white peach then pear evolving into flavours of citrus more towards the back palate. Medium weighted with a satin texture and contrasting acid line. Balanced, well made and ready to drink form 2024 through 2027."
NZIWS 2024 Judges' Comments (2024 Vintage)
"Aromatic and full-bodied a super tasty wine with ripe tropical fruit, floral characters and a hint of spice."
5 Stars & Number 2 Cuisine NZ & International Albariño, February 2024 (2024 Vintage)
"Green peaches and white florals sit alongside delicate herbal aromatics on this punchy and impactful nose. The palate is well balanced and beautifully textured with a tonne of mouthwatering and juicy fruit flavours that linger through to the finish."
91/100 David Walker Bell, WineFolio.co.nz, March 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"An Albariño from the Bridge Pa Triangle sub-region of Hawke’s Bay – and winner of the Trophy for Champion ‘Other White Wine Varieties’ at the New Zealand International Wine Show in 2024. A pale golden-green hue in the glass. Powerfully aromatic, with bountiful lime, grapefruit, apple, pear, fig, peach and floral flavours on the nose. Quite full-bodied, rounded and packing a little heat from the 14% vol. alcohol. Salty acidity gives drive and races across the palate. There’s a also a fine, silken texture that wraps around the ripe fruit and heads into a spicy, fresh finish."
