Anyone who’s ever visited Marlborough, New Zealand’s number one wine producing region will, without a doubt cruised along the famous road that links Blenheim and Renwick and dodged into many of the country’s top growers that are clustered between these two lovely towns. I was lucky enough to have done this in 2007 where my main focus was sampling as much wine as possible from my two favourite producers Dog Point and Saint Clair. So this was long before I’d even heard of Walnut Block and since a year or so ago when I first took this wine on, it’s been a joy to sell and see it become as popular as some of the more household names from this fine region. The wine is organic and with the increasing interest and demand for these kind of wines have helped its cause immensely but simply the fact that the wine tastes so damn good is to its credit. A wonderful style of wine that remains true to what Marlborough is all about and a style so many of us love, this wine has powerful aromatics and superb fruit intensity. Solid and well concentrated palate packed with flavours of passionfruit and ripe tropical fruits is the feature. The fruit has a lusciousness and the mouthfeel is soft, mellow and smooth flowing. Harvested in the cool of the night the grapes are slowly fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel, helping to maintain vivid flavours and balancing crisp acidity.
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