Blackenbrook Shangri-La Gewürztraminer 2020
Blackenbrook Shangri-La Gewürztraminer 2020
Beautifully perfumed the Shangri-La Gewurztraminer 2020 is intensely varietal, with elegant rose water and spice flavours.
It’s our Moutere clay soils, the dazzling Nelson sun and the finger prints of our fabulous team that make our wines unique. We hope you’ll enjoy!
Shangri-La Art Series
Nelson's intense colours and vibrancy have inspired our Shangri-La art series, with Michelle Bellamy's painting "Centre of New Zealand" adorning the Gewurztraminer label.
4 Stars Michael Cooper
The perfumed 2020 vintage is pale, softly mouth-filling, with pear, lychee and spice flavours, a hint of apricot, fresh acidity, very good delicacy and depth, and an off-dry finish. Best drinking mid-2021+.
From Sustainable Production, accredited by Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand
Vegan wine, certified by the New Zealand Vegetarian Society
Viticulture
• 100% fruit from our Home block
• Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
• Manual shoot thinning, leaf plucking and crop reduction
• Hand-harvested and hand-sorted on 17 March 2020 with 23.6 Brix
Extremely gentle winemaking:
Whole bunch pressed, gravity-fed from press area to main winery, tank fermented at low temperature to enhance aromatics and fruit-flavours, extended lees contact, minimal pumping, no fining pre-bottling
• 5.6g/ltr natural residual sugar
• Bottled on 16 July 2020 under screw caps
• 14.5% Alcohol