Carrick Billet – Doux Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2024 $45 If nice and natural Pinot Noir is your jam, then read on. With a label designed by artist Elana Marie, the certified organic Billet-Doux Pinot Noir 2024 is a hand-harvested, co-fermented blend of four different clones (5,6,13 & Abel) given 29 days skin contact before … Read More
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Carrick Pot De Fleur Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2024
Carrick Pot De Fleur Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2024 $45 This new release is an organic, single-site, single-clone, whole-cluster, carbonic-fermented, foot-stomped, unsulfured creation, matured for 8 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. It has a fabulously feral, smoked fennel and charred rhubarb aroma spectrum with sweet, juicy, ripe cherry and redcurrant characters on the palate. … Read More
Carrick Josephine Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2024
Carrick Josephine Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2024 $42 Organically-grown and skating down the sweet side of the street, this wine is named after the alternative name given by sailors to the Carrick Bend knot. Crafted from fruit grown in their Arthur’s Vineyard, it’s a Mosel-like style that roars with ripe apple, homemade lemonade, and luscious lime … Read More
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2023
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2023 $39 Beautifully balanced, barrel fermented and boasting stylishly rich aromas of roast peach, scorched grapefruit, hints of apple, almond meal and a prickle of pineapple. All of these elements wash across the palate, leaving a comet’s tail of fine, quartzy minerality and a satiny, creamy finish. Silky and refreshingly textural, … Read More
Carrick The Magnetic Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2022
Carrick The Magnetic Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2022 $80 Crafted entirely from the Abel clone, the most famous and notoriously mysterious Pinot Noir clone in the country. Rumoured to come from a cutting smuggled into the country from the most famous Burgundian estate in the world, and subsequently confiscated by one Malcolm Abel, a NZ … Read More
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2021
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2021 $45 Maturing beautifully and leaning toward a combo of red berry and Earl Grey tea, wild cherry, dark plum, cocoa, dark cherry and exotic spiced notes on the nose and palate. Softly styled, savoury and juicy, the textures are succulent and finish with sandy, emery-like tannins. Very nicely structured … Read More
Lateral Wines Bannockburn Skins 2022
Lateral Wines Bannockburn Skins 2022 $35 A blend of Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc by winemaking couple Pip Batteley and Austin Black, it’s got that bronze-copper colour typical of a skin-soaked example. Aromas of soft white pepper, quartzy minerality, a hint of nashi and fennel. On the palate, there’s a dried herb, smoky vein, dandelion, … Read More
Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 From a tiny site where four clones of vines grow high on a terrace above the Bannockburn Inlet, comes a Pinot Noir that erupts with vibrantly bright florals, fresh cherry, redcurrant and spice-dusted rhubarb on the nose. All that aromatic awesomeness osmoses through to the palate, … Read More
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022 $60 I mean you could go through your life happily knowing the Carrick EBM Chardonnay is so named for its ‘Extended Barrel Maturation’. However, I feel that name kind of doesn’t really give enough oomph to its actual fabulousness. So from here on in, I’m renaming … Read More
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Blanc 2024
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Blanc 2024 $42 So here are a couple of cool things to know about Pinot Blanc from the good folks at Wikipedia (whom you should donate to btw). It’s also known as Pinot Bianco in Italy, Beli Pinot in Slovenia), Rulandské Biele in Slovakia and Weisser Burgunder in Germany and Austria and … Read More