Winemaking: All fruit for this wine was hand-picked and then hand-sorted. The fruit was de-stemmed and gently crushed, then given some good skin contact time before being slowly and gently air-bag pressed. The wine was fermented 100% in stainless steel. The juice was fermented very slowly, at cool temperatures to retain aromatics. All parcels spent time on lees, post ferment, for added texture and complexity. This wine has not been fined and is suitable for vegans and vegetarians and anyone else who loves authentic, hand-made wines.

Wine: Intensely perfumed, with notes of lychees, mango, ripe oranges and cloves. These lead into luscious varietal flavours of lychee and quince, with underlying characters of ginger and exotic spice. The palate shows intense fruit concentration and weight with a fine, soft texture and excellent persistence of flavour. This wine is off dry and continues the outstanding quality of previous vintages of our Te Whare Ra Gewürztraminer.

Vintage 2024: This growing season for us this year was very different than that which the overall region experienced so that is important to note here. You will have no doubt seen all the media stories about the yields being significantly down in Marlborough due to frost and flowering impacts – but we had frost protection and due to our canopy management techniques, we did not experience the flowering issues that plagued others, so our yields were right on our LTA. We had very low rainfall over this growing season with the June to January period being the driest in 94 years! But yet again our continued focus on good organic matter levels (OM) in our soils over meant that we were not impacted by the drought and our vines sailed through with balanced set and very healthy canopies.