Nevis Bluff Central Otago Pinot Blanc 2015

Description

• Pear 
• Spice 
• Delicate dry style
• Refreshing acidity

Pear, spice and citrus aromas are followed by flavours of stonefruit with a delicate creamy like texture underpinned by mineral notes and refreshing acidity. This wine is a delicate, dry style of Pinot Blanc.

This full bodied and delicately perfumed wine is picked early in the vineyard to encourage freshness in this early drinking style.

Nevis Bluff wines are sourced from their vineyard in the Pisa sub-region of Central Otago; a region famed for long, hot summer days and cool nights. A slow ripening period produces intense fruit flavours, resulting in wines with rich aromatics, concentrated complexity and dense fruit sweetness. It is this unique terrior and philosophy to select only premium grapes, combined with a natural winemaking approach that produces these exceptional wines.

Merrill’s Block is a warm and sheltered plot in the vineyard which was planted in 2002 with the GM2 clone of Pinot Blanc. Fruit for this wine was hand harvested in April at around 8 tonnes per hectare.

The grapes were whole bunch pressed, fermented at warm temperatures in stainless steel barrels using wild yeasts, then filtered before bottling at the end of August 2015.

Food Pairing: Pairs well with simple dishes such as fish & white meats, we recommend trying with honey & orange roast sea bass served with lentils.