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Floral and fleshy. Intensely aromatic, with ripe-fruit characters of apricots and musk, excellent flavour concentration, a sliver of sweetness and a deliciously oily, creamy texture.”
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Elsewhere this is $21. Try this beautiful wine instead of a sauvignon or pinot gris- you wont regret it and its not often we can offer a good quality viognier at this remarkable price. This indigenous grape variety from the Northern Rhone Valley in France produces rich and exotic wine. Viognier is a low acid variety so the palate is broad, rich and weighty with aromas of apricots and flowers. The fruit for this wine is sourced from the Chalk Hill block just to the south of Havelock North. It is so named due to the amount of fractured limestone in the soil profile. It is a very steep vineyard and is very difficult to work (too steep for even a tractor). The vineyard faces due north and is very warm during the day.
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Since 1995, Te Mata Estate has pioneered
New Zealand’s production of viognier, a rare white
grape from France’s Rhône Valley. Fermented
in barrel, it displays the floral, white peach and
honey characters found in the fi nest examples
of this entrancing variety. Zara is affectionately
named after Zara Buck, the fi rst born child of
the third generation of Te Mata Estate’s Buck
family. Zara spent her childhood playing amongst
the vines at the vineyard which is home to this
delightful viognier.
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From a fanatical producer comes this super smart viognier. Floral, lush, rich, weighty and dry. Citrusy, peachy and spicy with sweet fruit delights and slightly nutty oak enriching but not dominating.
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Definitely one of NZ best viogniers'. From the steep sided biodynamic hillside vineyard called Les Arbes. "An organic Gisborne wine of arresting richness and complexity." M.Cooper. Made from hand picked fruit using indigenous yeasts and fermented in 600 litre barrels "Rich, unctuous wine with a velvet texture and plenty of weight. It's bone dry with classic apricot, floral and spice flavours. Very impressive wine in truly varietal style with underlying complexity from barrel and yeast lees work. Complex and very stylish, it has the "X" factor." 93/100 Bob Campbell
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A tiny production viognier from this quality focused winery. Produced from the rocky gravels in the Wairau Valley. Voted in the Top 3 in Cuisine's Viognier Tasting. "Gorgeous golden, glossy Colour and packed with ripe apricot, pear, japonica and jasmine aromas. In the mouth it has a luscious, oily rich texture and superb length of flavour." Viva Magazine
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"Estate grown , ( 5 stars ) the 2010 is highly seductive in its infancy. Richly scented, with a late-harvest feel, it shows lovely weight, ripeness and delicacy, with deep, vibrant stonefruit flavours, gentle acidity, a slightly oily texture, and exceptional richness and harmony." M.Cooper
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We only have the tasting note for the 2009 "Already in bottle, Tardieu’s 2009 Condrieu is sensational. Produced from two of the appellation’s greatest sites, Chanson and Chery, it offers a rare opulence, a full-bodied mouthfeel, abundant crushed rock minerality and terrific purity and length. Although this white wine is aged completely in wood, the wood component is pushed well to the background. This impressive wine should be drunk during its first 2-3 years of life"94 Parker
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