2018 Huia Grüner Veltliner

Huia

New Zealand / Marlborough / Huia

The 2018 Grüner Veltliner is a single-vineyard wine from the Kennedy Road Vineyard in the Hawkesbury Valley. This vineyard is certified in conversion to irganics with BioGro. The growing season furbished us early with sunny ripening conditions. This combined with the well drained, stony clay soils and crop thinning provided beautifully exposed fruit. This has given us an elegant, floral, citrus-based dry Grüner Veltliner.
The grapes were hand harvested at optimum ripeness on 1st April. These were de-stemmed and crushed to the press. The wine fermented in stainless steel tanks using organic yeasts which carried out a long, cool ferment, retaining the vibrant fruit characters.
The nose is aromatic, full of floral and citrus notes. On the palate the wine shows jasmine and honeysuckle alongside mandarin lemon citrus. This Huia Grüner Veltliner shows good length and fresh and lively finish. This wine is vegan and vegetarian friendly.

May, 2019

Bob Campbell

The Real Review

89 points

Moderately weighty Grüner Veltliner with classic citrus, mandarin and spice flavours. Good acidity perfectly balances a small amount of sweetness to give the wine a little pleasing tension.

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About Huia

Huia Vineyards is a family-owned winery based in Marlborough's Wairau Valley. Claire and Mike Allan bought the initial vineyard land in 1990 and launched Huia in 1996, with a focus on handcrafting wines that express the richness of Marlborough grapes from the vineyard to the table. This quest for quality is represented by the Huia feather, a symbol of dignity, wisdom and elegance. The Allans are acutely aware of the need to preserve the magnificent environment that provides their unique wine. Huia is has been fully certified organic with BioGro New Zealand since 2011 and since 2009 has been in certification with Demeter Bio-Dynamics. Certified Organic

About

Mike and Claire Allan were studying winemaking in Adelaide in 1990 when they scored vintage positions in Marlborough, Mike at Cloudy Bay and Claire at Corbans. They immediately fell in love with the beauty and energy of the region, and couldn't resist when they saw an ad in the local paper for a block of land on an old apple orchard in Rapaura that “looked like heaven”. It took four years’ toil to get the apples out and the land ready for planting what has now become Huia. During that time, Mike deepened his relationship with the region at Cloudy Bay and Vavasour, while Claire went from Corbans to Lawson’s Dry Hills. By 1996, they had the estate up and running. “It was the vitality of the wines we tasted when we got to Marlborough that told us we were somewhere special,” says Mike, accounting for the motivation that got the place to the great shape it’s in today.