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Organic. This year, the blend for Corofin’s ‘village’ wine comprised fruit from the Brawn Vineyard, a mere three kilometres from the ocean (60%) and the Wrekin Vineyard occupying its own small locality tucked into the foothills of Marlborough’s Southern Valleys (40%). The Brawn Vineyard lies on Kaiapoi silt loam over pea gravel and is home to an old-vine Mendoza clone that is now rare in Marlborough.
Driven by precision from Wrekin and salinity from Brawn, the 2023 fermented on high solids and aged for 18 months in 500-litre seasoned French oak puncheons and two stainless barrels. It’s a wine of pulpy intensity and energy, weaving cool citrus and fleshy lime—and more nutty complexity—through layers of silken fruit. We love how this wine achieves such sophisticated texture without any sense of heaviness.