The Lowburn Ferry Pinot Noir from Central Otago is elegant, with lovely crunchy, ripe red berry fruit, clove and toasty oak spices, nice, grippy apple-skin tannins, and crunchy cherry fruit on the back end, with smoky mineral notes on the long finish. 100% Pinot Noir. Abv. 13.0%
This Oakville Cabernet is a stud. It exudes muddled blackberry and plum fruits, with rich toasted oak notes. The tannins are quite powerful and arresting, with decadent layers of dark chocolate, black fruit, and baking spices. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Abv. 15.4%
Named after the ribbonwood (māntau) tree, this site sits on an elevated terrace with gentle north-facing slopes. The soils are loess over deep gravel and limestone deposits. Fruit is hand-harvested and fermented with native yeast and aged up to 18 months in French oak. This Central Otago Pinot is wonderfully focused, with polished red fruit notes, brown spices, bright, fresh herbal notes of thyme infused with rose-petal nuances, plum fruit, and blood orange notes. 100% Pinot Noir. Abv. 13.5%
This wine is part of the Colours Collection, from sustainably farmed vines. Wonderfully compact, with flinty mineral notes and ripe citrus and orchard-fruit character with sea-spray minerality. Medium-bodied on the palate, the wine is bright, clean, focused, with zippy, mouthwatering acidity, and slivered almond notes through the mineral-scented finish. 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Abv. 13.5%.
This is a fantastic, refined, medium-bodied Chardonnay from Tony Bish, bursting with ripe citrus and orchard fruit, white flowers, and elegant brown baking spices. All of those aromas come together on the palate, with saline minerality and crisp acidity. Excellent fruit concentration creates a harmonious mid-palate, and the wine is teeming with energy, with great length and tension. 100% Chardonnay. Abv. 13.5%
A bold, mountain-grown Cabernet with impressive power and intensity. Just-ripened blackberries and black cherry fruit are further enhanced by darkly earthy spices and dark chocolate sprinkled with sea salt. 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Malbec, 3% Merlot. Abv. 14%
This wine shows a brightness on the nose of a youthful wine, but the maturity on the palate of a wine that has aged more years than it has. And that’s what happens when a wine ages under the sea, which hastens the aging process because pressure breaks down minerals that help soften tannins and mellow ripe fruit flavors. Here, this wine is medium-bodied with lovely savory tobacco and bay laurel notes, red berry and currant fruit, and a long spicy finish. Brown baking spices and a slight nuttyniness on the lasting finish. Following conventional cellar maturation, the sealed bottle underwent additional aging beneath the sea, where darkness, stable temperature, water pressure, and gentle currents created an alternative environment for its evolution.
Such a zesty, crisp, focused Pinot Blanc, with white peach and apple-pear undercurrents, white flowers and honeysuckle notes, and a long, mineral-driven finish. Ideal for a seafood restaurant by-the-glass option, or, for you, at home, with oysters or hard cheeses.