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Winestate Riesling Tasting December 2020: 4.5 Stars
Winestate Best of Varietal/Style: 4.5 Stars
Winestate Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2021: 4.5 Stars
Cameron Douglas MS: 94 Points
2020 New Zealand Aromatic Wine Competition: Silver
Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
NZ Wine Rater: 93 Points / 5 Stars
The grapes for this wine were sourced entirely from our family-owned Honey Block vineyard in Lower Dashwood, where the elevated and windy location challenges the vines. The back palate explodes with lemon and lime notes. The mid-palate is warm with a hint of spice and a touch of honey backed by stony minerality and linear acidity. Grown with love, made with care.
Pairs with sushi, sashimi or the delicate flavours of Japanese or Cambodian food.
Colour: Palest straw with hints of green. Aroma: Hints of lime and honey, underscored by an inherent flintiness and developing aged Riesling characteristics. Palate: The back palate explodes with lemon and lime notes. The mid-palate is warm with a hint of spice and a touch of honey backed by stony minerality and linear acidity. Cellar: More than 10 years.
The grapes for this wine were sourced entirely from our family-owned vineyard in Lower Dashwood, where the elevated and windy location challenges the vines. The soil here is predominately composed of a layer of top soil over a tight clay that the vines can’t penetrate. Dependent on vigour, the vines were cane pruned to either one or two canes and trained to vertical shoot position. The warm spring of 2019 brought ideal early growing conditions and a tip-top flowering season. The bunches were reduced to one bunch per cane before flowering, producing yields of 5 tonnes per hectare when harvested in April 2020.
Once at the winery, the grapes were crushed, destemmed and pressed immediately. The juice was then floated, warmed and inoculated with an aromatic yeast. A cool fermentation followed and when the wine was deemed in balance (in residual sugar, alcohol and acidity) the ferment was stopped. The wine was then stabilised, filtered and bottled in July 2020.
Alcohol 12.0% pH 3.13 TA 7.3 g/l
Residual sugar 6.2 g/l
Winemaker: Kim Crawford
Tasted: July 2020
Winestate Riesling Tasting December 2020: 4.5 Stars
Winestate Best of Varietal/Style: 4.5 Stars
Winestate Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2021: 4.5 Stars
Cameron Douglas MS: 94 Points
2020 New Zealand Aromatic Wine Competition: Silver
Bob Campbell MW: 4 Stars
NZ Wine Rater: 93 Points / 5 Stars
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