At Seresin, we work the land in a traditional way to determine the character of our wines. Organic and biodynamic practices underpin our careful attention and gentle thought with which we make wine of passion, grace and spirit.

Vintage: A cool start to the year, with some late frosts, but the weather was settled for flowering and fruit set. The summer was warm and very dry, resulting in berries and bunches being smaller than average. Harvest took place in good conditions, resulting in fruit which showed aromatic ripeness as well as a balanced, fresh acidity.

Vineyard: Half of the fruit comes from our clay-rich hillside Raupo Creek vineyard, which as a gentle north-west facing aspect, settled in the centre of the Omaka. The other proportion is drawn from our Noa vineyard at the western end of the Wairau Valley.

Winemaking: Certified organic fruit was hand-picked before being whole bunch pressed and lightly settled. Fermented with wild yeast, in a combination of old oak puncheons and barriques for 5 months to give texture and body to the wine. The wine was then assembled from a selection of barrels and allowed to stabilise in tank before final filtration and bottling. Aged for a further 6 months in bottle before release the final wine is complex and full-bodied with autumn fruit and spice notes.

Technical data:

Yield: 6 tonnes / hectare

Oak: 100% fermented and aged in old oak casks for 5 months (mixture of puncheons & barriques)

Bottling date: 18th November 2015

Alcohol: 13.5 %

RS: 4.6g/l

pH: 3.55

TA: 4.4g/l

(SKU: 1529)