Lawson's Dry Hills (Marlborough) 2022 Gewurztraminer

Winery note

"Very pale straw in colour while the aromas offer the classic, lifted potpourri florals with lychee and roses with a pronounced thread of fresh lemon. The palate is soft, round and luscious but with wonderful weight and depth. Turkish delight flavours add to the wine's complexity and give way to ripe tropical fruits on the mid-palate while the finish has a pithy lemon character. Long, concentrated and highly memorable."

Lawson's Dry Hills (Marlborough) 2022 Pioneer Gewurztraminer

94 Points Cameron Douglas MS (2019 vintage)

This Gewurztraminer is from the company’s original vineyard, planted in 1982, that surrounds the winery. These unirrigated vines are deeply rooted in clay soils which help to give the wine intensity, weight and body, resulting in a rich, mouth-coating texture.

Mango, persimmon, lychee and marmalade produce a wonderfully complex nose. The palate is rich and round with great fruit concentration and intensity. This wine is medium in style and the sweetness is perfectly balanced by gentle acidity. Combined, these characters produce a complex, balanced and most importantly, delicious wine.

Vegan Friendly

Loveblock (Marlborough) 2021 Gewurztraminer

90 Points - WineAlign
4 Stars - Winestate Magazine
Gold Medal - NZ Aromatic Wine Competition
Rated Excellent & 93 Points - Cameron Douglas MS, May 2022 
"Fragrant, floral, spicy and seductive scents with aromas of baked apple and white peach, dried herb and white pepper corn. Silky texture touches the palate first followed by flavours of white fleshed orchard fruits, some tropical notes and dried herb qualities. A youthful freshness with a lively acid line and bright fleshy texture. Balanced and well made with a lengthy finish. Delicious and ready from day of purchase and through 2026+."

Hints of guava, sweet mandarin and blood orange on the palate. Finishes with good rounded texture and nice acid tension.

Single Vineyard, Vegan Friendly

Matawhero (Gisborne) 2023 Single Vineyard Gewurztraminer

5 Stars – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
92 Points  – Cameron Douglas, MS

Iconic winery operated by Richard and Kirsten Searle. Fruit from Gisbornes Patutahi region. The first vineyard in New Zealand to plant Gewürztraminer, this is a clean fruit-driven style with richness and great aromatics.
Pale straw with hints of gold. An exotic rose petal, clove, lychee and star anise notes. Clean fruit-driven style, rich and full with lychee, Turkish delight, spice and ginger notes. A broad wine that persists well.

Vegan 

Whitehaven (Marlborough) 2022 Gewurztraminer

90 Points - James Suckling
5 Stars - Sam Kim
18.5/20 Joelle Thomson

A full bodied wine with a rich, oily texture that coats the palate with the variety’s distinct and heady flavours. The slight residual sugar adds to the wine’s weight and textural qualities.
The wine has an intensely perfumed nose, bursting with Turkish delight, cinnamon and nutmeg spice and rose petal aromas.