Crystal clear – very pale lemon
Intense perfume of honeysuckle, quince, mandarin peel and melon.
This wine is supple and ripe with intense pear, quince and mandarin flavours. The fruit and spice notes are underlined by a rich and creamy mouth feel with a good acidity providing a mineral backbone and a long lingering aftertaste to this off-dry style wine.
Low cropping estate grown grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in April from Aurum’s Te Wairere vineyard in the Lowburn area of Central Otago.
We experienced long warm autumn with hot dry days and cool nights. These high diurnal temperature variation help retain bright flavours, varietal integrity and good acidity.
Fluvial, glacial silts and gravels.
17 year old vines
VSP Vertical Shoot Positioning
The grapes were whole bunch pressed to minimise extraction of skin phenolics and cool-fermented in stainless steel tanks with extensive lees stirring to increase the mouthfeel.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Residual sugar: 5g/L
