North Canterbury

This is a wine with real power and drive, yet delivered with precision and fi nesse. While ready to drink on release it can be expected to cellar well and evolve gracefully for many years.

Fresh and vibrant yet concentrated, with a structured frame. The finish is spicy, decadent, and sustained, leaving lingering impressions of velvety depth.

The palate is sweetly fruited and supple, with plush polished tannins and a ripe, spice driven mouthfeel. An ethereal and elegant wine, coupled with a rounded body and splash of refreshing acidity that provides harmony and length, flowing perfectly through to its long, rewarding finish.

The palate offers the alluring attraction of fresh and sweet red berries, wedged between vibrant mouth-filling structure and sleek, sinewy tannins. But in the end, the racy tension steals the show; a layered and complex mineral tang making it challenging to put the glass down.

There’s delicious perfume with some sappy notes and pure red fruit to intensity kick things off, alongside touches of bramble, florals and a lick of blue fruit. The fine boned structure screams cool climate with powdery tannins and delicate oak supporting a palate that suggests ripe, intensely-flavoured grapes picked at the perfect time, with good acidity. The finish possesses real class and impressive purity. It’s tighter and more coiled than the Central Otago Pinot—if you can’t give it time to unwind, a good decant will work wonders.