Te Whare Ra Single Vineyard Marlborough Rosé 2024

Description

Apple, Dry, Floral

"It's instantly appealing and elegantly scented on the nose with wild strawberry, Gala apple, summer peach, and floral nuances, leading to a finely flowing palate that's juicy and crisp. Delightfully composed and expressed, finishing long and refreshing. Certified organic. At its best: now to 2027" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Dec 2025

"Light coral pink. This is a very concentrated, intense rosé with masses of fruit ranging from tangy raspberry and blood orange to deep notes of blackberry and blueberry, infused with licorice, anise and earthy spice. Despite its concentration and power, the palate is surprisingly lively and elegant, before slowly yielding to the submerged bed of peppery grip on the finish. Simply fantastic, it is clearly structured without being serious or austere. It will age if given time in bottle but is equally enjoyable now with food.  Drink 2025–2028" Stephen Wong, Master of Wine, The Real Review

"The 2024 Single Vineyard 5182 Rosé offers us fresh garden rose, pomegranate, raspberry seed and a hint of watermelon clarity. The wine has a fine and savory phenolic structure, which draws the wine out through the long finish. This rosé is a blend of 64% Pinot Noir and 36% Syrah. It’s certified organic and farmed biodynamically" Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

The 2024 Rosé has gorgeous, lifted aromas of spring strawberry, and ripe raspberry in addition to some blue fruits, and pretty floral notes and hints of savoury. These follow onto flavours of fresh summer berries & blue fruits plus hints of mulberry and spices. The fruit and floral notes are balanced by some very attractive savoury complexity and ripe juicy acid. This Rosé is purposely made in dry savoury style, which combines vibrant fruit with texture and weight resulting in a delicious refreshing combination. We feel that this Rosé is the perfect pairing for a summer picnic or barbecued anything!

We have always loved Rosé and have enjoyed consuming them for many years, but this is a relatively new addition to the TWR family of wines – we are sure this will be a worthy successor to our previous releases. This 2024 is made solely from our certified organic home block at Te Whare Rā. We wanted to make a Rosé that reflected a classic, dry, savoury style and was based on Pinot Noir (with sneaky little x factor from some Syrah as well). Our favourite Rosés are lighter in colour and deliciously dry with lifted florals and fresh fruit flavours coupled with savoury undertones and ripe acidity, so our aim was to replicate these qualities. In keeping with our house style here at Te Whare Rā we also wanted to make a wine that showed elegance and purity of fruit but one that also was fleshy and juicy with great texture and complexity. This is made solely from red varieties and is from blocks in our vineyard that are purposely grown for making Rosé.

This growing season for us this year was very different than that which the overall region experienced so that is important to note here. You will have no doubt seen all the media stories about the yields being significantly down in Marlborough due to frost and flowering impacts – but we had frost protection and due to our canopy management techniques, we did not experience the flowering issues that plagued others, so our yields were right on our LTA. We had very low rainfall over this growing season with the June to January period being the driest in 94 years! But our continued focus on building good organic matter levels (OM) in our soils meant that we were not impacted by the drought and our vines sailed through with balanced set and very healthy canopies. Harvest this year was very compact due to the dry season - with most of our crop off within the first 8 days. Our vintage team worked like a well-oiled machine to get it all in, so we are thrilled with both the quality and quantity this season. The resultant wines are very impressive with great depth of flavour and fleshiness whilst still exhibiting lovely purity of fruit, bright aromatics, and ripe, juicy acidity. This 2024 Rosé is enjoyable to drink now and will also benefit from careful cellaring for 2-3 years.

The fruit for this was picked over several days in order to capture all the different spectrums of red & blue fruit characters we were wanting. All the fruit was hand-picked, and hand sorted and then destemmed and left on skins in the press for a quick, cold maceration. After some time soaking on skins, we then put them through a gentle press cycle. We prefer this to making Rosé by saignee methods as we feel it gives more structure and more length of flavour. We prefer cool fermentation for Rosé to help retain all the great berry aromatics. All parcels were given time to rest on ferment lees for added texture and complexity. This wine has not been fined and is suitable for vegans and vegetarians and anyone else who loves authentic, hand-made wines.