Marlborough Wines

This 2009 sweet wine is gorgeous – adding to a long pedigree of superb Forrest, Marlborough Botrytis Rieslings. It’s deliciously ripe, exudes lovely citrus fruit, apricot and spice flavours, Botrytised honeyed fragrance, finely poised, crisp pure and rich. A world class sweet wine.

The Doctors Riesling Profile Now assuming cult status in the New Zealand wine scene the Doctors’ Riesling continues to amaze wine critics and novices alike. Grown on  stony Condors bend vineyard at Renwick the fruit ripens slowly, in Marlborough’s cool dry autumn climate, gaining flavour interesting yet retaining all important acidity. Harvested early at low sugars the grapes are gently pressed, cold settled and given a cool slow fermentation which was arrested around 8.9% alcohol and 44g/l residual sugar. The final decision on when to stop the wine fermentation is very much decided on taste and acid/sugar balance.

Everything good about Marlborough in New Zealand is encapsulated in this wine… the lifted aroma of elderflowers and jasmine, fresh passion-fruit on the palate and finally the fresh citrus and stone fruit finish - a great example of Sauvignon Blanc from this unique region... Enjoy !

Grown on three distinctly different sites, two within the Wairau River Valley giving a  delicious citrus (lemon and lime) flavour profile fine acidity and most interestingly an amazing minerality. The third site is in the southern Brancott Valley with a much more exotic fruit flavour profile – stone fruit (apricot), citrus (mandarin) and spice (cinnamon).