This refreshing, aromatic wine has wonderful aromas of fresh limes and ripe
citrus, with a juicy gooseberry palate and lingering finish. Pair it with your
favourite seafood and pasta dishes. The fruit for this wine was grown in four Wairarapa vineyards, each with
differing soils. One is stony loams, from which this wine is predominantly
produced, while the others are a mixture of silt loams and hillside clays. This
variety provides different flavour profiles, which helps us to increase the
complexity of the finished wine. These vines are relatively young, and are
cropped at low yield levels to give intensely flavoured grapes.
The focus in the winery is to capture the pure fruit flavours that come from the
vineyard, whilst adding complexity through our winemaking efforts to produce
a multi-dimensional wine. This is achieved by tank fermenting the juice using
yeasts that are able to ferment at low temperatures – preserving the essential
fruit flavours.