TE KANO LIFE SERIES ROSÉ 2024

This classy Cental Otago Pinot Noir Rose is a great example of how a couple years of bottle age can enhance the drinking experience of Rose. The time in bottle helps to soften the acidity and harmonise the fruit flavours.

Te Kano are a relatively new player on the Central Otago wine scene but have already made some significant investment into the region – they are really starting to produce some impressive wines!

They have a strong passion for conservation (as well as making delicious wines) and are undergoing some extensive regenerative projects around their Estate vineyards based in Bannockburn, Northburn and Waitaki. Working with organic practices (not yet certified) the care and attention here is obvious and they are definitely a winery to keep an eye on going forward.

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"This fresh, mineral wine is made entirely from Central Otago Pinot Noir. Hand-picked fruit and minimal skin contact ensures a brilliantly pale and clear wine with intense aromas of fresh floral notes, peach, red apple, hints of guava. The palate is textural with pithy phenolics, candied red apple, red berry fruits and pink grapefruit, with some tropical (guava and passionfruit) notes on the finish."

5 Stars & 94/100 Candice Chow, CandiceWineChat.com (2024 Vintage)
"​This Central Otago Rosé features a silky, impeccable mouthfeel carrying fresh, lifted aromas and a dry finish, with a lingering touch of pepper. Lifted aromas of raspberry lemonade, strawberry, black pepper, rose and gummies."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"A silky texture touches the palate first framed by flavours of pink and red apple skin, peach and a touch of citrus peel. On the second and third taste the textures from super fine skin tannins and a backbone of acidity deliver a wine of flavour and satisfaction, length and readiness. Best drinking from day of purchase through 2027+."

5 Stars & 93/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, March 2026 (2024 Vintage)
"Delicate and restrained, the bouquet reveals cranberry, crunchy apple, oatmeal, and subtle flinty nuances. It's sleek and linear in the mouth, offering fine flow and vibrant acidity, finishing elegant and persistent. At its best: now to 2027."

5 Stars & 93/100 Sammy Wilkinson, The Wine Writer (2024 Vintage)
"Pale salmon with a bronze tinge in colour, it opens with peach and rose petal aromas, before tart redcurrant, slight liquorice, and rhubarb. The palate is ripe and succulent, with a rounded, creamy texture that carries red fruit, dried tarragon, and a fresh acidity. A delicate mineral line weaves through rhubarb and wild strawberry flavours before finishing fine, chalky, and lightly textural. Altogether, it's a sophisticated sipper, perfect for pre-dinner drinks on the deck with aperitifs. Drink now to 2028."