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WITHER HILLS NEW SUMMER VINTAGES
Two outstanding seasons have resulted in two particularly exceptional vintages from award-winning winery Wither Hills...
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Nestled amongst New Zealand’s famed Marlborough region, this acclaimed winery continues to impress with its consistent and quality range of superb wines.

Chief winemaker Ben Glover says the 2011 Wither Hills Sauvignon Blanc is looking fantastic thanks to ideal spring conditions and a long warm ripening season, contributing to some of the best looking canopies at harvest since 2003.

“These warmer nights and days have given our 2011 Sauvignon Blanc a lovely texture and riper acidity, and it is showing beautifully as a young wine. I can see it being thoroughly enjoyed over the coming summer months,” he says.

Wither Hills’ 2010 Pinot Noir had a perfect vintage to kick off the new decade in exceptional style.

“With a ten-year low in temperatures, we were worried that the fruit wouldn’t reach ripeness in December, but luckily the weather was on our side and we have been treated to a new release that offers a beautiful structure with amazing intensity and spectrum of pinot aromas,” he says.

The Wither Hills 2011 Sauvignon Blanc (RRP $20.99) and 2010 Pinot Noir (RRP $27.99) are available now from all wine retailers.

2011 Sauvignon Blanc Tasting Notes
Supple aromatic intensity of kaffir lime, brambly tomato leaf, clementine, fennel leaf, with underlying gooseberry and red capsicum held with tropical guava and slight tease of ‘sea water’. This melds with mineral seamlessness, textural acidity and fruit weight to deliver another appealing Wither Hills ‘Wairau Valley’ Sauvignon Blanc.

2010 Pinot Noir Tasting Notes
With aromatics of seductive bright morello cherry, fresh brambly wild berry compote, subtle French oak spice, black olive and lingering ‘blue’ notes; this is a youthful evocative wine. Seamless tension, bright acidity and supple ripe fruit tannins, elegance, texture and Pinosity are bound together with a balanced acid tannin profile delivering our hallmark Wither Hills Pinot Noir style which if patient will reward cellaring for up to 15 years.


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