This wine is blended from several base wines from different sites around Marlborough’s Wairau Valley. These sites grow different clones and with different soil profiles there is an intention to produce a complex and structured wine. It is aged for 9 months in a mixture of new and seasoned French barriques, then fined and filtered and bottled under screwcap.

A light cherry red. On the nose, cherry fruit and raspberries, and hints of mushroom and spice. The palate is clean and rounded, red cherry fruit and some game, nicely balanced and with pretty good length. And then with some time in the glass, it showed oyster shells and appeared a little salty and minerally. Very odd indeed, but overall a very pleasant wine.

Rated : 88 Points
Tasted : Mar07
Alcohol : 13.5%
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2007 - 2010