Radford Central Otago Pinot Noir Blanc 2025

Description

Dry, Floral, Raspberry

"Pristine and finely scented, the bouquet reveals white-fleshed peach, watermelon, lemon peel, and white flower nuances. It's brilliantly focused and flowing in the mouth, delivering bright fruit flavours with elegant texture and beautifully pitched acidity, finishing splendidly long and mouth-watering. It's fabulously styled and expressed, offering terrific drinking. At its best: now to 2028" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2026

"A delicate pink hue leads to a bouquet of blossoms and flowers, there’s a lees and white spice quality then aromas of pears and apple, some citrus and raspberry leaf. A dry wine with a chalky texture and backbone of acidity and flavours that reflect the bouquet of pomaceous and citrus fruits with an echo of white fleshed stone fruit. Nice level of purity and style with best drinking from day of purchase through 2028" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Mar 2026

Dry, elegant, and crisp, offering expressive aromatics and a true sense of providence. A very pale pink in the glass with aromas of raspberry, cherry, strawberry and peach, with florals of rose blossom, violets, and a touch of tarragon and cucumber. The mixture of berry and stonefruit continues on the palate, with a hint of sweetness giving weight to the mid palate, balancing a Yuzu citrus backbone.

The Radford range is crafted in exceptional vintages, from a single-vineyard in Lowburn, Central Otago. The debut release - Radford Pinot Noir Blanc 2025, is a single clone Pinot Noir from the village of Pommard, France.

Pinot Noir for this wine was hand harvested on the 22nd March 2025. The fruit was whole bunched pressed, with the resulting juice being cold settled overnight and then fermentation started. The key focus of this wine was on maintaining the fine and fluffy lees (sur lie) post fermentation. The wine was kept with the lees in suspension to add savoury and brioche notes as well as to soften the acidity. This wine highlights the potential for a well structured clone of Pinot Noir to show savoury and salinity notes reminiscent of the great roses of southern France.

Food Pairing: Can be enjoyed on its own, but will really shine when paired with food - this wine is suitable for a wide range of dishes and cuisines.