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Axehouse Vineyard Gruner Veltliner 2024
$42.00 NZD
Wine Description
Single Vineyard: Axehouse Vineyard
Subregion: Omaka Valley | Southern Valleys
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2024
Soil Type: Light clay loams over silts and gravel
Clone: A1-2
Viticulture: Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Growers: Jonathan and Robyn Falloon
Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified (AMW)
Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Vegan | Vegetarian
Fourteen years on from our inaugural Marlborough Grüner Veltliner, we’ve learned a thing of two about this fascinating variety. 2024 is our exciting debut from the Axehouse Vineyard, home to a hectare of some of the oldest Grüner vines in the country. Jonathan and Robyn Falloon meticulously nurture these vines while their award-winning homestead lends the property its edgy name.
The Omaka Valley's warm days, cool nights and clay-loam soils deliver perfect ripening, allowing this Grüner to unfurl with full-bodied richness, vibrant yuzu citrus and white-pepper aromatics. It nods to its Austrian roots with savoury, textural intrigue, while fully embracing New Zealand’s fruit-driven precision and opulence.
Winemakers Notes
This Grüner Veltliner is a collaboration between site and thoughtful winemaking, designed to reveal the vineyard’s mineral clarity and textural nuance while using measured oak to lift, not dominate.
Fruit is hand-harvested, then destemmed and crushed to allow a brief, controlled skin contact that builds textural complexity and white pepper aromatics. Fermentation is split by vessel so the wine gains the brightness of stainless steel and the structural, aromatic nuance of French oak puncheons (20% new).
After uniting the parcels the wine is aged on fine lees for 11 months in puncheons to develop savoury flavours, fine-grained texture and a layered mid-palate while retaining a richness of fruit and definition of place.
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