Greywacke Marlborough Riesling 2022

Tasting Notes

An uplifting array of florals combine with crunchy red apple, cranberries and freshly squeezed lemonade. Off-dry in style, the silken palate is bursting with nectarine, mandarin and lemon blossom flavours, with hints of vanilla bean and star anise. A racy backbone of acidity proves the perfect juxtaposition to the wine’s generous aromatics and lingering complex finish. VITICULTURE Organically farmed grapes were grown at Ashmore Vineyard in Fairhall, adjacent to the mouth of the Brancott Valley, on gravelly clay-loam soils. Conditions here are more typical of the Southern Valleys than the Wairau plains. This 26-year-old BioGro certified vineyard is trained on a two-cane VSP (vertical shoot positioning) trellis and is rigorously shoot- and fruit-thinned to regulate yield.