Greywacke Riesling 2023 750ml

Greywacke Riesling 2023 750ml

TASTING NOTE The bright, fruity scent of fresh nectarine intermingles with perfumed notes of citrus and coriander flowers. A vibrantly fragrant style, layered with a beeswax-like complexity and a subtle thread of anise. The palate is generous, with flavours of oneydew melon, Pink Lady apple and candied lemon. A spine of fresh acidity gives vibrancy and balance to the succulent and lingering, off-dry finish.

VITICULTURE Grown at Ashmore Vineyard in Fairhall, adjacent to the mouth of the Brancott Valley, in gravelly clay-loam soils that are more typical of the Southern Valleys than the Wairau plains. This 27-year-old organically certified vineyard is trained on a two-cane VSP (vertical shoot positioning) trellis and is rigorously shoot- and fruit-thinned to regulate yield.

WINEMAKING Fruit was hand-picked on the morning of 5 April at moderate ripeness levels, capturing the exuberance and natural acidity of the variety. The grapes were whole-bunch pressed using a very low maceration press cycle and the resulting juice was cold-settled, then racked to fermentation vessels. Half of the juice was inoculated in stainless steel using cultured yeast and the balance was filled into old French oak barriques, where it was allowed to undergo spontaneous indigenous yeast fermentation.

Towards the end of fermentation, all the wine was transferred to stainless steel, where the fermentation was stopped, retaining 19 g/l residual sugar. The blended wine was filled into old barrels, where it remained on yeast lees for a further six months, prior to bottling in late January 2024 with alcohol 12.0%, pH 2.86 and acidity of 7.1 g/l.

Alc: 12%

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