Description
Isle of Beauty
Reviews & Awards
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit | 95 Points | 5 Stars
Pristine and delicately aromatic, the bouquet presents notes of cranberry, lemon peel, crunchy apple, and white floral, with a hint of oatmeal. It’s brilliantly focused and finely flowing in the mouth, offering excellent fruit purity backed by finely pitched acidity, with a persistent and linear finish. At its best: now to 2028.
Cameron Douglas| 95 Points | Outstanding
A delicious bouquet of ripe red berry fruits, pear, pink apple, raspberry, and cherry flesh. There’s a fine seam of minerality with a wet stone character and a superfine savoury, almost dried-herb quality. Textured and fresh, with a fine lees and fruit-tannin layer adding mouthfeel and complexity. Delicious and refined – the best example of Isle of Beauty to date. Best drinking from late 2025 through 2027, with or without food, and certainly throughout Summer 2026.
Reviews & Awards
Aotearoa Regional Wine Show | GOLD
National Wine Awards of Aotearoa NZ | GOLD
Michael Cooper | 5 stars
Pale pink, it is vibrantly fruity, with fresh, very generous strawberry, watermelon, peach and spice flavours, showing excellent delicacy, and a dry, harmonious finish. Already delicious, it offers top drinking through the summer of 2023-24.
Winemaking
Treated as a white wine in the cellar, this rosé was pressed off skins early and fermented cold in stainless steel to accentuate fruit purity. The wine was then aged on light yeast lees for two months to gain complexity and increase mouthfeel.
- Alcohol: 12 %
- T.A: 7.2 g/l
- RS: 4 g/l
- PH: 3.22
Palate
Bursting with crushed red berries, Himalayan salt, and a sherbet touch.
Bouquet
Aromas of freshly cut watermelon, overlaying nuances of thyme and wild strawberries.
When to drink
2026 – 2029
Great with
All Mediterranean cuisine.
