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ALAN MCCORKINDALE WAIPARA VALLEY, NZ Alan McCorkindale Wines is a small family business based in the Waipara Valley, Canterbury. Our focus is on creating quality boutique wines with distinct style and flair using traditional French techniques. Our grapes are grown in the beautiful, natural surrounds of the Waipara Valley. Our vineyards are pruned and picked by hand to ensure that every drop is pure quality, New Zealand wine. With winemaking experience in Burgundy, Champagne, Alsace, the Rheingau, Hunter Valley and Tasmania Alan is also actively involved in offering mentoring, wine production and wine marketing advice to New Zealand and international producers.
SINGLE VINEYARD Marlborough AWARDS PINOT GRIS Waipara Valley Waipara Valley Central Otago SYRAH Hawkes Bay 76
SINGLE VINEYARD Marlborough VINEYARD Harvested from old vines planted in Rocky River Terraces Vineyard in Marlborough s Wairau Valley, New Zealand. Low vigour vines are naturally low cropping, producing intense flavoured fruit. AROMA Gooseberry, hawthorn and tropical fruits, with hints of citrus. PALATE Vibrant, dry, with a racy acid backbone, delicate and intense with minerality and complexity, very long finish. PINOT GRIS Waipara Valley VINEYARD Single Vineyard Pinot Gris harvested from the clay/ limestone-rich slopes of Montserrat Vineyard in New Zealand s Waipara Valley. COLOUR Straw-gold. AROMA Fig, pear, backed apple and hints of roasted almonds. PALATE Dry with soft acid, textural phenolics and subtle layers of complexity. 77
SINGLE VINEYARD Waipara Valley VINEYARD Single Vineyard Pinot Noir harvested from the clay/ limestone slopes of the Montserrat Vineyard in New Zealand s Waipara Valley. This close planted, low yielding vineyard is unirrigated, with ungrafted vines. AROMA Raspberry, brambles, and blueberry, and hints of exotic spices. PALATE Is focused and concentrated, savoury, with gentle tannins, subtle oak and a very long finish. Central Otago VINEYARD Hand harvested from the clay and schist slopes of the Legend Terrace Vineyard on Felton Road in Central Otago, New Zealand. AROMA Blackberry, black cherry and raspberry, with hints of brambles. PALATE Vibrant fruit flavours skip over a focused, concentrated, brooding palate, seriously tight, long finish. SYRAH Hawkes Bay VINEYARD Single Vineyard Syrah is harvested from the clay soils of the Au Plein Soleil vineyard in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. This low yielding vineyard has a few vines of Viognier, which is cofermented with the Syrah grapes in small vats. AROMA Blackberry, pepper, and plum, with subtle hints of violet. PALATE Is focused and concentrated, powerful, but graceful, with lithe tannins, balance and a very long finish. 78
LAWSON S DRY HILLS Marlborough, New Zealand The dedicated bunch of people that make up our small team at Lawson s Dry Hills are very hands on, living and breathing every part of the viticultural and winemaking process. We do a lot of talking and tasting before pouring our shared inspiration into every bottle. The resulting wines offer an authentic expression of the place and the grape variety they are made from together with a certain special something that we believe can only come from passion. It would seem that the combination of elements that go into each of our wines is a winning formula. We have lost count of all our gold medals the certificates cover the walls in our cellar door while the shelves are buckling with the weight of all our trophies both local and overseas. But actually we re not ones to boast so that s enough of that. We d rather roll our sleeves up and get stuck in to making the best wines possible, after all, that s what we dream of, talk about and well, it s actually what we do.
ESTATE AWARDS Awarded the world s best Sauvignon Blanc producer 2013 Gold Medal Marlborough Wine Show 2015 Gold Medal International Aromatics Wine Show 2015 Gold Medal Auckland Royal Easter Wine Show 2016 PINOT GRIS GEWÜRZTRAMINER Pure Elite Gold Medal Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2015 Gold Medal The Spiegelau International Wine Competition 2015 One of the Top 12 New Zealand Gewürztraminer James Kilmartin Gourmet Traveller Wine 2015 RESERVE SERIES AWARDS Gold Medal The Marlborough Wine Show 2015 80
ESTATE SERIES Lovely passionfruit, lime and fragrant lemongrass leap from the glass, whilst the palate is crisp and focused with a juicy texture. The barrel fermented component helps to highlight the wines chalky minerality. In terms of flavours this wine has lovely complexity with strong citrus and passionfruit characters balanced by some herbal notes and tropical fruit. PINOT GRIS This is a beautifully lifted aromatic wine with lemon blossom, fresh cut pear, honeycomb featuring strongly. The palate is full and rich, slightly off dry and balanced with lovely acidity. Pip fruit and nectarine flavours abound with background notes of nougat and spice giving the wine depth and interest. This wine will develop wonderfully over the next 3-5 years. GEWÜRZTRAMINER The bouquet of this wine is beautifully scented with notes of rose petal, clove, lychee, ginger, citrus and much more. The palate is rich and round with a lovely mid palate volume and a luscious texture. A sliver of sweetness provides softness to the finish. Over the next 8 10 years this wine will develop musk, honey and toasty characters, whilst retaining its distinctive varietal appeal. 81
ESTATE SERIES The bright cherry and raspberry aromas scream Pinot Noir. The palate is gentle and supple with surprising power and depth, the wine has a lovely length, soft chalky tannins and gentle acidity. The aromas of fragrant vanilla and mocha are derived from maturation in a mixture of some new, but mainly older French oak barriques. 82
RESERVE SERIES RESERVE This Reserve Sauvignon Blanc runs the full gambit of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc varietal characters, from fresh green herbs through to strong citrus, lifted passionfruit and ripe tropical fruits. This wine leaps from the glass and has great intensity on the palate, with a juicy mid palate and great length. A Sauvignon Blanc made to cellar, keep it for 3 5 years. RESERVE As a youthful wine, it has a dark deep burgundy colour with bright purple hues. This Pinot Noir is richly aromatic. Cherry, Raspberry and enticing floral aromas are offset by French oak characters that provide sweet vanilla, char and spice. The palate possess a rich core of red berry fruit, nicely balanced acidity, supple tannins and wonderful generosity. Cellaring potential 3 4 years. 83
WHITECLIFF Marlborough, New Zealand From vintage to vintage, Whitecliff has always created wines of high quality and consistency and we re passionate about keeping it that way. Our dedicated winemaking team sources the grapes from a number of select regions throughout New Zealand and Australia, searching for varietal characteristics that meet the fullflavoured, vibrant and approachable style our wines are known for.
ESTATE SERIES AWARDS 85
ESTATE SERIES Lifted aromas of citrus flower, passionfruit, nectarine and a hint of red capsicum. The palate has a mineral intensity with herbal classical snow pea notes and beautifully tensioned acidity. A delicate bouquet of earthy spice and ripe berries. Medium-bodied in style with the sweet richness of cherry and blackberry, giving way to a savoury complexity on the finish. 86