• Bone-dry style
• Honey
• Lemon & lime
• Subtle spice

"Flavoursome, bone-dry riesling with honey, lime-citrus, white rose, mineral and a suggestion of root ginger. A distinctive and appealing wine with some toasty bottle development. Should develop even more interesting flavours with bottle age" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review Jan 2020

Palest straw with hints of green om the glass. Hints of lime and honey, underscored by an inherent flintiness and developing aged Riesling characteristics. The back palate explodes with lemon and lime notes. The mid-palate is warm with a hint of spice and a touch of honey backed by stony minerality and linear acidity. Drinking well now and up to 10 years.

The grapes come from Loveblock Farm in the Lower Awatere sub-region of Marlborough. These Riesling vines are grown on top of the hills where the wind howls, giving us a small crop of berries packed with flavour. The soil type is predominantly aged alluvial loams containing some clay over stone. Dependent on vigour the vines were cane pruned to either one or two canes and trained to vertical shoot position. The warm spring brought perfect early growing conditions and a tip-top flowering season. Due to these ideal flowering conditions, the grapes were green thinned at veraison to ensure even ripening in the autumn. The young nature of the vines meant yields were less than two tonnes per acre when harvested in mid-April 2014.

Where possible the grapes were machine harvested with around a quarter of them being hand-picked. The fruit was then transferred to the winery where the grapes were destemmed and crushed before being lightly pressed and cold settled for 36 hours. Once racked and warmed, the juice was inoculated with organic yeast and cool-fermented to dryness. The wine was bottled in mid-February 2015.

Food Pairing: Sushi, sashimi or the delicate flavours of Japanese or Cambodian food.