"Charming and brightly expressed, the inviting bouquet shows watermelon, pomegranate, apricot and white floral notes, followed by a finely textured palate offering juicy fruit flavours with refreshing acidity, making it vibrant and tasty. At its best: now to 2026" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Jun 2024

"This pale Rosé has an austere nose of sliced strawberries and citrus. The palate is medium- to fullbodied with focused ripe apricot flavors and a persistent, subtly phenolic finish. Drink now" James Suckling

This elegant Rosé blend is dedicated to our super lady, Sadie Rose. Beautiful and elegant in colour, this fresh, vibrant, dry and delicious wine is packed full of red berry flavours. Warning, this wine is a lot of fun and a little moreish. In Essential Awatere fashion the finish is lively, crisp and lingering. A delicious wine that brings together “new world” fruit and “old world” elegance and minerality.

Our vines grow on a slender terrace at the edge of the Awatere River, with a unique micro-climate and soil structure. Influenced by a fault line, a river, and the power of the nearby Pacific Ocean, our land is stony, dry, windy and cool, elements that create wines of elegance, minerality with a lively and lingering finish. We let the untameable terroir of the Awatere Valley express itself through our vines, grapes and ultimately wines.