Mills Reef Reserve Hawke’s Bay Gewürztraminer 2024 $22
On your marks, get set, and GO directly to my pick for the BEST VALUE gewürztraminer for the summer. It’s Paddy Preston of Mills Reef started out making kiwifruit wine in Tauranga. He was darn good at it too. But a few years into it, back in the 1980’s, someone said “Mate you should give grapes a go I reckon” and Paddy’s never looked back. Growing great gewürztraminer was one of their signature talents. Today winemaker Paul Dawick is the man in charge of shepherding this Hawke’s Bay fruit from berry to bottle, and the 2024 is a powerful, pungently aromatic gewürztraminer, oozing all those classic lychee, ginger, jasmine, Turkish delight and toffee notes that I look for. Plush, silken textures create a fresh yet luscious style that roars with hot and spicy eggplant and tofu. Mills Reef
