- Region: Marlborough
- Tasting Notes:
Deep, full straw/gold.
Rich and incredibly intense, and certainly complex: pine honey, candied yellow fruits, marmalade, ginger, even light soy notes. Offers some lovely, focusing empyreumatics – hot rock, toasted spice, grilled bread.
Fresh and cooling in the mouth, surprisingly subtle and elegant, for a wine of such intimidating power and presence. Lightly sweet, not unlike a macedoine of fresh peach, nectarine, melon and strawberry, drizzled with a touch of honey, then a glass of our 08 Pinot Blanc poured over all. Still, this wine is serious and insistent, and provides simultaneously both volume and drive.
40hl/ha from this cool, strong-soiled site on Fareham Lane in the Waihopai Valley.
A large number of tiny, shrivelled berries yielded a wine of low yields and great power. Hand picked, whole bunch pressed, no settling; vineyard yeast fermentation enduring 17 months, in used French oak, primarily 450-500L puncheons. Bottled September 2010. Alcohol 14.9%, RS 11.5 g/l. Production: 290 cases
