Dye Bleeding Skin Contact Grenache Gris Liberty Wines

Dye Bleeding Skin Contact Grenache Gris Liberty WinesConsidering the skin contact fermentation here it takes a great deal of skill to produce a wine with such clarity and brightness. Beautifully pale pink in colour, the palate is initially one of fresh strawberries before a very smart pithy finish. Harvested from Grenache Gris. Skin fermented (naturally) until dry. The wine was then pressed and matured in 400 litre Ceramic eggs for 7 months. The Earths mantle thrusts up above the gentle town of

Light pink in colour and an elegant nose of red fruit

The hand-harvested grapes were processed separately

Project B Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from a premium single vineyard in Oliver and is blended with a thimble of barrel-aged Semillon from the same site for texture and finesse

this wine has perfumes of ripe blackberry

Just 6 years ago this was rich dairy farming land at the mouth of the Wairau Valley

Quite long

grapes tend to be high in concentrated flavours

This wine comes from a recently planted vineyard

firm bright acidity and a fresh gentle mineral finish

Rich palate with bright apricot and tropical fruit with notes of toasted almonds

Blended from the harvest of various years to ensure consistent quality

Produced from the family's 19 hectares of vines growing in 'terres blanches' - chalky clay - soil