'Meta' Riesling 2025

Vineyard: Muritai Vineyard
Subregion: Blind River
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2025
Soil Type: Complex silt and loam from sedimentary uplift
Climate: Cool, dry maritime
Viticulture: Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)

Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified (AMW)
Sustainable New Zealand Winegrowing Certified (SWNZ)

We chose the name ‘Meta’ for our botrytised, late harvested Riesling, as it embodies the remarkable change of condition the grapes undergo as they are transformed by noble rot over the final weeks of Autumn. A metamorphosis from healthy fruit into ugly and shrivelled but intensely concentrated, sweet berries.

Once harvested these have the potential to yield one of the most hedonistic, nectarous wines you can imagine. Aromas of citrus zest, orange blossom honey and marmalade are poised against a luscious and pronounced sweetness on the palate which persists thanks to a backbone of enlivening acidity.