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
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Rock Ferry Trig Hill Central Otago Tempranillo 2022
Rock Ferry Trig Hill Central Otago Tempranillo 2022 $50 Fiona and Tom Hutchison created Rock Ferry back in 2005 and developed the organic, Central Otago-based Trig Hill vineyard at the same time. It’s beyond a stretch for most to attempt growing this Spanish staple in the southernmost wine region of the world — but shiver … Read More
Rua Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024
Rua Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024 $28 Prepare for the subtle scent of baked cherries and the aroma of thyme, rubbed between your palms. The scent of wild rhubarb, baking spices and raspberry. They merge into a flavour spectrum of redcurrant, black tea, and exotic spices, with textures that are fleshy and lithe, and a … Read More
Akitu Central Otago Pinot Noir Blanc 2024
Akitu Central Otago Pinot Noir Blanc 2024 $45 This wine is a white wine crafted from Pinot Noir — and it’s an absolute banger, bursting with baked apple, yellow plum, soft apricot, and gentle citrus layers. Refreshing, zesty, laced with tree-fruits and rich complexity to finish. Dangerously drinkable. Akitu
Akitu A1 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
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
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