Kapiti Champion Exhibition Red Wine Trophy
2009 Air New Zealand Wine Award Winner
Order GeorgeTown Vineyard Pinot Noir
For milliennia the Kawarau river has carved it's path and slowly layered it's treasured minerals at the end of the gorge. During more recent centuries nearby areas were burnt to access pounamu, sluiced for gold, then bulldozed for a hydro-electric dam. What remained untouched was a snippet of land that at the end of the 1800's was the mining town of GeorgeTown. These days this warm alluvial site produces the silky tannins and complex flavours in our Pinot Noir