Classy buying here for not much money. Delicious pure fruit with a lovely minerality and a crisp zingy finish.

Gold Medal – Aotearoa Regional Wine Competitional 2024

"Intensely aromatic and instantly appealing with passionfruit, feijoa, green rockmelon and lime peel aromas, it's succulent and delectable on the palate, delivering terrific fruit purity and power. At its best: now to 2027." 5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, June 2024 

"The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc is aromatically restrained, with a palate loaded with tropical fruit, passion fruit, peppery leafy greens and white spice. This is a crunchy, vibrant wine with plenty of compelling fruit to enjoy. It's lovely—classy." 91/100 Erin Larkin, RobertParker.com, December 2024 

"Our vines grow on a slender terrace at the edge of the Awatere River, with a unique microclimate and soil structure. Influenced by a fault line, a river, and the power of the nearby Pacific Ocean, our land is stony, dry, windy and cool, elements that create wines of elegance, minerality with a lively and lingering finish. We let the untameable terroir of the Awatere Valley express itself through our vines, grapes and ultimately wines.

Succulent fruit balanced by lovely, subtle and flinty minerality. This is a seductively powerful and moreish wine yet understated by its elegance. The nose is all about floral and nettle notes. In Essential Awatere fashion the finish is lively, crisp and lingering. A delicious wine that brings together “new world” fruit and “old world” elegance and minerality." Winery notes