2024 Changes - Rose
It’s amazing how the season and harvest can change so quickly. This volatility is stressful but makes winemaking exciting and keeps you drawn in every year.
Changes Rose is the product of this adaptation, making something beautiful out of the chaos.
Pomegranate, red berry, mandarin and green pear skin. The barrel fermentation has added an enticing savoury, wet river stone character that also comes through on the palate. This wine is dry, textural and delicious to drink with a beautiful play between tannin, bitterness and acidity.
Only 1020 bottles produced.
It’s amazing how the season and harvest can change so quickly. This volatility is stressful but makes winemaking exciting and keeps you drawn in every year.
Changes Rose is the product of this adaptation, making something beautiful out of the chaos.
Pomegranate, red berry, mandarin and green pear skin. The barrel fermentation has added an enticing savoury, wet river stone character that also comes through on the palate. This wine is dry, textural and delicious to drink with a beautiful play between tannin, bitterness and acidity.
Only 1020 bottles produced.
It’s amazing how the season and harvest can change so quickly. This volatility is stressful but makes winemaking exciting and keeps you drawn in every year.
Changes Rose is the product of this adaptation, making something beautiful out of the chaos.
Pomegranate, red berry, mandarin and green pear skin. The barrel fermentation has added an enticing savoury, wet river stone character that also comes through on the palate. This wine is dry, textural and delicious to drink with a beautiful play between tannin, bitterness and acidity.
Only 1020 bottles produced.
Details
Raukawa
Planted in 2003, the organic Paritua vineyard sits on an old riverbed of gently rolling and flat land beneath the limestone rich Raukawa hills. The soils are made up of free draining “red metal” gravels overlaid by alluvium derived by loess, volcanic ash, greywacke and limestone. Accompanied by high sunshine hours and low rainfall, this site is perfect for red varieties.
Season
Two cool seasons prior to 2024, coupled with a reasonably wet and cold spring of 2023 led to low bunch numbers and a long flowering period. Small, open bunches and low yields were the result, which isn’t a great thing for the wallet but is amazing for quality.
The rest of the 2024 season was near perfect, with bright, warm days and cool nights producing intense colours, amazingly balanced and vibrant fruit characters, while holding on to brilliant texture and acidity.
Winemaking
100% Merlot
Fruit was destemmed and pressed direct to tank with no pressings cut.
After a night of settling the juice was racked to old barrels, taking most solids with it.
A natural ferment slowly but steadily progressed, producing an amazing balance of savoury and sweet aromatics.
The wine was topped, allowed to go through malolactic fermentation to create softness and left without sulphur for 4 months.
No fining or filtration.
Minimal sulphur was added two weeks before bottling.
Alc - 11.5%
Pomegranate, red berry, mandarin and green pear skin.
The barrel fermentation has added an enticing savoury, wet river stone character that also comes through on the palate.
This wine is dry, textural and delicious to drink with a beautiful play between tannin, bitterness and acidity.