Colour:
Pale green.
Aroma:
Lively aromas of herbaceous greens, blackcurrant bud and fresh garden herbs.
Palate:
Fresh and bright with flavours of blackcurrant leaf, green capsicum and fleshy white peach with an underlying salty minerality and a long lingering finish.
Ageing potential:
Drinking beautifully now and best enjoyed over the next two years.
Winemaker:
Stewart Maclennan
Winemaking:
The juice was pressed off immediately to minimize skin contact and juice deterioration following harvesting. After settling, the juice was fermented using a carefully selected yeast in a stainless steel tank at cool temperatures to retain fruit flavour and freshness. This batch was selected as a Pioneer Block wine due to its intensity of flavour and rich texture on the palate.
Viticulture:
The fruit was sourced from a single vineyard on the fertile, free-draining soils of the lower Wairau Valley. The fruit was carefully monitored during ripening and harvested in the cool of the evening at maximum flavour maturity and physiological ripeness.
Wine Analysis:
Alcohol 13% v/v
Residual sugar 2.09g/L
Acidity 7.2g/L
pH 3.33
Our Food Match Recommendation:
Match with fresh seafood or a vegetable salad.
Vegan Friendly
"Aromas and flavours of fresh herbs and salty air, ripe white fleshed fruits and sage, pink grapefruit and basil, tropical fruit moments and wet rock. Crisp and salivating, refreshing and dry, flavours mirror the bouquet seamlessly with a backbone of acidity to carrying throughout the palate. Well made, dry on the finish, mineral and ready. A wine best enjoyed from 2023 through 2027+."
95 Points - Candice Chow Wine Chat.
