New Release wines 2009…

February 24th, 2010 | Posted by Kirk

Soon to be released, our 2009 white wines. The Sandihurst Waipara Riesling is a wine in similar style to 2008 wine, a low alcohol wine with balanced moderate sweetness and vibrant acidity, and the Sandihurst Waipara Pinot Gris,  is a dry full flavoured wine with the accent on texture. Both of these wines are the first releases from my own vineyard which makes it doubly exciting.

In addition, in response to the exeptional quality of the vintage and in line with where we want our premium red wines to be, we have decided to extend the barrel maturation of our Pinot Noir 2009 by a few months and will be bottling this in June this year which will probably mean a release in time for Christmas. 2009, much like 2007, was a fantastic vintage both here in Waipara and in Central Otago and in the coming months there will be some superb wines being released. Naturally the big names like Felton Road, Mt Difficulty, Gibbston Valley, Muddy Water and Pegasus Bay will all have brilliant wines to release but I would urge you to seek out the lesser lights, the smaller less well known producers whose wines will no doubt be equally great and of course better value.

There is a story behind most wines – to the time to find it out, it makes the glass you are drinking all the more enjoyable.  

PS – I believe we are one of only a very small handful of producers using cork as the preferred closure with our aromatic white wines. Fromm and Prophets Rock come to mind – are there others, let me know???