Gewurztraminer from Hawke's Bay
Vintage: 2022
Volume:750ml
 
🌿Sustainable Wine🌿
🐞Organic Wine🐞

 
The Mangatahi vineyard sits on ancient river terraces formed by the braided Ngaruroro River. Planted in 2006, the terraces are made up of greywacke stone with a topsoil based of volcanic ash, alluvial gravels and silt loams. Located inland and between two mountain ranges the organically farmed vineyard benefits from low rainfall, warm days and cool nights.
 
Handpicked fruit was wholebunch pressed direct to 500L puncheons with full solids. 15% of which was new French oak. After a few days, wild fermentation spontaneously started and progressed for 15 days with a maximum temperature of 25 deg C. Post fermentation the wine was stirred a few times and left to mature at cool temperatures. This helps to build the mid palate and to tame the fruit characters. No malolactic fermentation occurred and minimal sulphur was added after 3 months. After a total of 9 months of barrel maturation the wine was racked to tank for bottling. No fining or filtration.