Main Divide, Riesling, Waipara Valley, North Canterbury, New Zealand 2022

Sourced from both growers (40%) and from estate vineyards, Main Divide is the main Riesling produced, it is made in a gentle, off-dry style with 10% botrytised fruit that puts fruit front and centre. An immediate sense of ripe, golden and red-cheeked pear fruit, almost Williams-like, fills the nose. There is the merest flicker of flinty reduction. The palate is smooth, beautifully fruit-driven, very fluid and far too easy to drink. Fine freshness brings it to an off-dry finish.