Monowai Hawke’s Bay Field Blend 2025 SBPG60-40 Bold and juicy and blending lime zest, lemongrass, poached nashi, a lick of nutmeg and some pear strudel characters to create a fresh, summery, citrus-led style of sip. Hints of spice merge with herbaceousness and there’s a fang of lemonade to finish. Not available yet.
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Monowai Hawke’s Bay Field Blend 2025 SBPG70-30
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Field Blend 2025 SBPG70-30 Quite a tropical, peachy style with a herbaceous backbone and solid acidity all wrapped around a pop of nashi sweetness at its core. Highly aromatic, lemongrass, soft baking spices, apple and a glorious gush of guava. Chilled down and dished out on a hot afternoon with some jalapeno … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2022
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2022 $24.99 From the top terraces of the Ngaruroro River, way out west of Hastings, comes a merlot heaving with dried herbs, dark cocoa, smoked berries, and pepper. It really opens up in the glass with some good swirling, and it’s the kind of merlot I can get extremely possessive about. … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2023
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2023 $24 Gorgeously golden in the glass, winemaker and owner Emma Lowe has, from a horrific cyclone year, I might add, created a bold, peach and cashew-crammed style with refreshing acidity, buttered toast dusted with cinnamon characters and a finish that’s like a marathon being run in your mouth. Tropic-tastic and … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Brut Rosé NV
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Brut Rosé NV $24.99 If a sparkling wine stacked solid with ripe berries, cherries, creamy complexity and a melon-like finish is a bit of you, then you’ll love this new release from Monowai. Bold, boisterous and laced with herbal notes, it’s got a big personality, loads of texture and a style all … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022 $24.99 Paired with: Spicy Mexican Prawns in NZ Herald CANVAS March 11 2023 Coriander, lime, garlic, chipotle and chilli? Pardon me but I’m about to paradiddle down to pinot gris town with this prawn recipe (shout out to all the percussionists out there). The rocky, high-altitude, free-draining soils of … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir Rosé 2022
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir Rosé 2022 $24.99 Sometimes I make myself do a personal SWOT analysis, and it’s never pleasant. The main reason I force myself through this excruciating exercise is so I can reward-slash-console myself at its conclusion with something delicious made by Emma Lowe at Monowai. Her new rosé brings the grins … Read More
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $24.99 Emma Lowe and her husband Marcello are the super-talented duo who craft this crisp, clean, troptastic sauvignon blanc in their small but perfectly formed winery waaay out on Matapiro Road in Hawke’s Bay’s Crownthorpe district. The stones are so big in the vineyards out there, the locals call … Read More
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021 $35 The juicy, multilayered, gentle stonefruit and caramelised spices in this new vintage merge with creamy depth including creme brulee and creme caramel, peachy notes baked nashi and neenish tart – deliciously complex and macadamia creaminess – roasted nuts and exceptional length of flavour been waiting for this … Read More
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir 2020
Monowai Upper Reaches Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir 2020 $34.99 Upper Reaches refers to Emma Lowe and her husband Marcelo Nunez’s vineyard. It sits high up on the ancient terraces carved out by the mighty Ngaruroro River in the sub-region of Crownthorpe at the foot of the Kaweka Range. Vanilla-dipped cherry and choco-berry aromas lead to … Read More