Carrick Excelsior Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2022 $110 Featuring a label painted by Dunedin artist Alice Toomer, the Excelsior is Carrick’s finest example, their flagship Pinot Noir, made only in tiny quantities and only in years winemaker Rosie Jaffe-Menzies deems the fruit supreme enough to warrant it. Which, if you suffer from OCD and want a … Read More
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Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2023
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2023 $56 Crafted from two vineyard sites that were planted back in the mid 1990s on their own roots, with each vineyard parcel fermented and matured separately in barrel for 10 months with 25% new oak barrels before being blended and aged for a stretch in tank to knit together … Read More
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2026
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Riesling 2026 $32 Winemaker Rosie Jaffe-Menzies knows a thing or thirteen about how to craft Riesling that hits all the bullet points for snappy-fresh dryness while delivering generosity and a comet’s tail of quartzy minerality to finish. Maybe she’s made for it. Maybe it’s Maybelline. Maybe I should stop regurgitating advertising slogans … Read More
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2024
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Chardonnay 2024 $39 Straight out the gate, I love this wine! It is just so deliciously satisfying, cleansing, yet delivering the kind of creamy complexity that had me going back sip after sip. Awash with poached stonefruit, pineapple pings, and ribbons of grilled grapefruit twisting around a core of caramelised, softly toasty … Read More
Neudorf Rosie’s Block Moutere Riesling Dry 2024
Neudorf Rosie’s Block Moutere Riesling Dry 2024 $33 If you love Riesling with a backbone of creamy citrus and crushed-shell minerality with a ribbon of clover honey and gentle apple juiciness, then this is your jam, Aunty Pam! Organically grown in the clay gravels of Nelson’s Moutere Valley, hand-harvested and wild-fermented, unfined and bottled in … Read More
Carrick The Magnetic Organic Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2023
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
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 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
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