Carrick The Magnetic Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2023 $80 Youthful and stacked with classic spice saturation, this Bannockburn-grown beauty is crafted using 100% Abel clone fruit (often referred to in New Zealand as the ‘Gumboot Clone’ – google it) to produce a stylish, classy, statuesque style. Soft earthy notes, a lick of roasted rhubarb, baked … Read More
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Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Blanc 2025
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Blanc 2025 $42 Alsace in France is the spiritual home of Pinot Blanc (a mutation of Pinot Noir), yet it’s clearly loving the schistous soils of Central Otago. I did want to write ‘schisty’ – but stupid grammarly wouldn’t let me. Sigh. Anyhoo, Carrick’s Pinot Blanc style leans into the deeply … Read More
Carrick Josephine Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2025
Carrick Josephine Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2025 $42 If you’re a fan of citrus-stacked, refreshingly sweet, honey-laced, Mosel-style Riesling, then saddle up and join the gymkhana because Josephine will bring you joy. Hand-picked, whole bunch pressed and fermented wild in stainless steel tanks, it’s a crisp yet generously juicy wine that’ll wake up even the most … Read More
Nuala Central Otago Pinot Noir 2023
Nuala Central Otago Pinot Noir 2023 $38 Softly smoky and showing a fine line of classic rhubarb, scorched fruitwood, baked cherry, gentle pepper and dried thyme flow from the nose to the palate in fine form. Clean, dry, refreshing and yet showing depth, generosity and fine-grained tannins to finish. Nuala
Nuala Reserve Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024
Nuala Reserve Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024 $tbc A smorgasbord of five different Bannockburn-grown Pinot Noir clones has been partially whole-bunch fermented with wild yeasts then blended by winemaker Paul Martung to create a distinctly savoury, exotically spicy and smoke-saturated style that’ll clear the nose and soothe the throat. Roaring with vibrantly classic cherry and … Read More
Nuala Central Otago Riesling 2025
Nuala Central Otago Riesling 2025 $tbc From a shiny-new label headed by winemaker Paul Martung, this is an apple-centric Riesling in the extreme! Sourced from fruit grown in Bannockburn and Gibbston, think Granny Smith, Pacific Queen and Fuji fabulousness, combining with Rose’s Lime Cordial and luscious lemon zest on the nose and palate. Citrus-stacked and … Read More
Carrick Pot De Fleur Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2025
Carrick Pot De Fleur Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2025 $45 Crafted organically from 100% whole-cluster Clone 777 fruit grown in their ‘Triangle’ block, this is the first time winemaker Rosie Menzies has used this block to build the Pot De Fleur. Fermented as whole berries under a CO2 blanket in 4 ‘pots’ that were then … Read More
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2023
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2023 $60 From 30-year-old organic, Mendoza-clone vines grown on their roots, this new vintage of their flagship Chardonnay is wild fermented and matured on lees in French oak for 18 months (EBM stands for extended barrel maturation) before being blended and bottled. But you don’t really need to … Read More
Carrick Bannockburn Riesling 2025
Carrick Bannockburn Riesling 2025 $32 From organic, own-rooted vines closing in on 30 years old, winemaker Rosie Menzies and her team have crafted a wild-fermented Riesling with delicious tautness and tension running through its core of green apple, lime, and clover honey. Crushed shell and quartzy minerality dusts across the finish, which, while dry, delivers … Read More
Rock Ferry Trig Hill Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Rock Ferry Trig Hill Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $45 Tom and Fiona Hutchison are the talented twosome behind the certified organic, biodynamically-farmed Rock Ferry vineyard in Bendigo, Central Otago, and their wine director, Allan McWilliams, has been making wine for Tom Hutchinson and Fiona Harvey at Rock Ferry since they began in the mid-2000s. … Read More