Tasting Notes
A glamorously enticing nose of crushed lime leaf and lemon balm. This superb wine shimmers in the glass like a taffeta gown. A concise palate reveals a vortex of rich stone fruits enveloped in a shroud of lime and slate.
Food Matching
Invite some special friends over for an impromptu Sunday lunch. Pour a glass of the Reserve Riesling and serve it with some wasabi and lime zest marinated Coromandel scallops. Don’t put away that delicious wine; serve it with a slice of lemon tart and a dollop of creme fraiche. What a superb way to spend a Sunday, friends, food and great wine!
Viticulture and Winemaking
This wine was produced from two vineyards in the Omaka sub-region of Marlborough’s Wairau Valley. Strict vineyard management produces low crops of intensely flavoured grape. Acid and fruit flavour balance are of the utmost importance here and have consistently produced top class wines.
Good flowering led to a fair sized crop that required thinning. This was done preveraison, as was a hand leaf pluck to open the fruit zone. This proved fortuitous as the effects of late season showers were dried easily allowing great flavour development and magnificent acid / pH balance.
Our 2011 Riesling has an enticing nose of crushed lime leaf and lemon balm. A superb wine from Marlborough's Wairau Valley.