Item Description
Tasting Notes
Wonderful, lifted, bright lime and passionfruit, with a light spicy character and a deep, tropical element that is even deeper and more intense. All of this is overlayed with a blanket of almost creamy richness that has a smoky passionfruit overtone. Incredibly lively attack that is bright and pithy with balancing richness of uber ripe limes, kiwifruit and a twist of passionfruit. The mid palate Is so bright and fresh with layers of pithy citrus and rich, intense passionfruit that brings fantastic balance. The finish has a fabulous acidity that carries the flavor for so very long and suggests this wine will last for quite some time in the bottle.

Winemaker Notes
Following on from 2021, this year's Arona maintains the 50:50 split of Wairau Valley and Awatere Valley fruit and the resulting wine is consistent too. Very solid, clean, ripe fruit requiring the lightest of touches in the winery. Aromatics are too the fore again as the fruit continues to be the hero.

About Arona
We are certified under Sustainable Wine Growing New Zealand which means that the vineyard, winery and bottling are all certified sustainable. If a New Zealand wine doesn't state that the wine's sustainable, then either they don't care enough, or it isn't certified sustainable.

but we try to do more...

Our microclimate reduces the incidence of disease. Continuous care and careful soil management help us reduce chemical use to a minimum. We compare very well to the average New Zealand vineyard, with just 65% of the average treatments. We do this by being big enough to own the equipment to do it ourselves and being small enough to live and breathe the vineyard environment. That means we monitor and react, rather than assuming the worst will happen and applying prescribed treatments based on calendar spraying. If it doesn't need to be done, then we don't do it. Our mantra of Minimal Intervention drives us to keep our vines healthy and productive with minimal impact on our environment.

Muritai", meaning "Sea Breeze" in Maori, nestles between the bluffs of Blind River half a mile from the sea in the cooler Awatere Valley. There are recognized differences between the wines of the Awatere and Wairau valleys. Awatere wines are fresher and mineral while Wairau wines are more tropical and rounder. Blind River's most recognizable element is a flinty, smoky minerality. Muritai was planted, mostly, in 2004.