Q Waitaki Valley Rosé 2024 $35 I love the pale trout coral colour and how its nose erupts with white raspberry, soft cherry, white pepper and fleshy, Pink Lady apple notes. Wickedly good stuff here from Waitaki, a region which sits on the border of South Canterbury and North Otago. Stuff which boasts a hint … Read More
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Kinross The Last Drop Waitaki North Otago Late Harvest Riesling 2020
Kinross The Last Drop Waitaki North Otago Late Harvest Riesling 2020 $45 The colour of this late harvest riesling has incredible green flecks, making it bright like a lime diamond. Sweet yet showing bracing acidity and refreshing textures alongside a honeyed spine. It’s a delicious palate cleanser. Kinross
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Noir 2021
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Noir 2021 $85 Deeply savoury on the nose and laced with creamy, cherry clafoutis characters on the nose and palate. Gently structured and dusted with hedgerow herbs, it’s a suede-like style that has a calmness and zen about it despite it coming from one of the toughest places to … Read More
Valli Waitaki Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021
Valli Waitaki Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 $85 North Otago pinot noir has its own signature scent. Baked rhubarb, hints of charcuterie, shiitake mushroom and exotic spices, they’re all here. Valli’s new release has an urgency about it, energy and unputdownability. It’s the kind of wine that wakes up even the most flaccid of flavour buds … Read More
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Riesling 2021
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Riesling 2021 $35 Clean as a whistle and showing whipcrack precision, this Waitaki riesling is laced with lime zest, crunchy green apple and a hint of frisky mandarin on the nose and palate. flinty minerality and crushed shell notes cloak its focused acid spine and core of citrus. Finely tuned … Read More
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Gris 2021
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Gris 2021 $34.50 White gold and gleaming in the glass, this snappy-fresh pinot gris has green pear, baked apple, tweaks of ginger, spice and white peach. Crafted by Jen Parr, it’s an intense style, with slight herbaceous notes, white pepper and a complex, dry. slightly saline mouthfeel. Valli Wine
Valli Waitaki North Otago Pinot Noir 2020
Valli Waitaki North Otago Pinot Noir 2020 $85 Winemaker Jen Parr has crafted a complex and earthy pinot from fruit grown in one of the most challenging climates in the country. So the grapes that do make it through the extremes of the season are incredibly concentrated and create wines that roar with tamarillo, plum, … Read More
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Noir 2019
Valli Waitaki Vineyard North Otago Pinot Noir 2019 $79 The Waitaki wine region sits right on the border of North Otago and South Canterbury. Hard country. Richie McCaw country. Its extreme climate produces pinot noir with huge florality (yes it’s a word), a soft, saline layer compliments cheek-puckeringly prickly astringency and has cherry, raspberry, pomegranate … Read More