Akitu A1 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $75 Sublimely soothing and suede-like, this is a Pinot Noir roaring with ripe rhubarb, soft cherry, gentle, earthy, dried herb and raspberry layers. It’s a delicately balanced example with plush, slippery textures, brick dust and forest floor, leaf litter loveliness washing over every nook and olfactory cranny. Sauce! … Read More
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Akitu A2 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Akitu A2 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $46 Sniffing this wine makes me totally get why people join cults and stop shaving. It’s like a sorcerer throwing magic cherrywood smoke in your face and leading you, zombie-like, away from the crowd to a new life of worship. Red rose, roast beets, tamarillo, and cola combine … Read More
Rockburn Stolen Kiss Central Otago Rosé 2025
Rockburn Stolen Kiss Central Otago Rosé 2025 $27-$33 In typical Stolen Kiss fashion, this new vintage (it’s 19th!) bursts with bright cherry and sweet red berry bodaciousness. Raspberries and cream, whiffs of watermelon and buckets of red apple razziness make this a rich, rewarding, smashable style. Rockburn
Carrick Billet – Doux Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2024
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
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
Red Hut Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024
Red Hut Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024 $35.99 Winemaker Corey Ryan has used a nifty blend of five Pinot clones from a single vineyard site in the sub-region of Lowburn to create this shiny-new and snappy fresh style. Garnet-hued and stacked with classic redcurrant, dried thyme, rhubarb and wild cherry notes on the nose and … Read More
Folding Hill Bendigo Chardonnay 2023
Folding Hill Bendigo Chardonnay 2023 $38 Wow! Central Otago Chardonnay is absolutely having its moment and I’m exultant about that. From the 2023 vintage the team at Folding Hill have crafted a fantastic example, a style roaring with baked stonefruit, creme brulee, soft caramelised characters a lick of white pepper and grapefruit pith. A style … Read More