Tinpot Hut

Pineapple, passion fruit, guava, lime and even some red apple burst like a firecracker from the glass of this outgoing white. The palate comes with a lively tang of limey acidity amid the slippery palate. Balanced and textural, this is a tasty tipple now that should gain more honeyed interest with another year or two in bottle.

(2012) A blend of Fiona's own Blind River fruit and selected parcels from the Wairau region's heavier silt soils. Delicious pea-shoot crunch and verve, fragrant with nuances of lemongrass and something delicately lime-like. On the palate there's real concentration. Alcohol is 13% by volume, but it is a powerful Sauvignon with a decisively pithy acidity at its core, quite nervy and taut, with those herb flavours and dry apple-core fruit quite mouth-watering. A very nice rendition of this classic style.