2020 Melika’s Field

“Melika’s Field is made to be an ever-evolving expression of the greatest white fruit our Home Block has to offer in any given vintage. Made to elicit a long-lived memory of time and place, each vintage of Melika’s Field will inevitably be completely different to the last, in terms of both style and composition, as each vintage is immeasurably different and our own tastes and preferences wax and wane with the ebb and flow of the years. By taking the emphasis away from the voice of any one single variety, we’re able to clearly communicate the volcanic origins and maritime influences of our unique Bay of Islands terroir. Named for the winemakers partner, who was given a pair of overalls and a spade on a first date, and helped plant what is now the Home Block ”

Made from a series of co-harvested and co-fermented selections of fruit from around our Home Block vineyard, taken throughout the 2020 vintage. Whole-bunch pressing, indigenous barrel-fermentation in a mixture of 500L oak puncheons and 225L acacia barriques. Full solids contact without any racking, fortnightly battonnage. Unfined, coarsely filtered.

Ginger Root - Magnolia Flower – Figs - Bush Honey - Tropical Guava - Pink Grapefruit

Sauvignon Blanc (53%), Semillon (27 %), Albarino (15%), Petit Manseng (5%)

12.8% alc.

Cameron Douglas, 93 Points

“… Enticing and attractive aromas and flavours of tropical fruits, sweet honey, citrus fruits, peach and fresh herbs. A fine lees autolysis and minerality, complexity and satin texture. Acidity brings contrast and enhances the flavours of citrus and minerality and introduces a lite saline note. Balanced and well made, ready to drink upon purchase and through 2025.”