Tiki Single Vineyard Riesling 2024

Off-dry Riesling from our Waipara Valley home block.

Sold by the six-pack.

2024 vintage
5 stars, 94 points, Wine Orbit
90 points, Cameron Douglas MS, The Shout

Offering excellent fruit purity and poise, the wine shows crisp apple, lemon sorbet, and green pear notes on the nose. It's focused and linear on the palate with a whispering sweetness and beautifully pitched acidity, finishing mouth-watering and lingering.
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

Tasting note
Colour: light lime.
Nose and palate: enticing floral notes of lime, lemon and mandarin showcase classical Riesling characteristics. Off-dry in style, with lemon curd, white blossom and a long acidity that combine to make a delicious wine.

The detail
Region: 100% Waipara Valley, North Canterbury
Grape variety: 100% Riesling
Maturation: 100% stainless steel fermentation
Alcohol: 12.5%
Acidity (TA): 7.9 g/L
Residual sugar: 9 g/L
pH: 2.9
Released: December 2025
When to enjoy: drinking well now, and it will continue to develop for a further six years from vintage

Winemaking
The fruit was in excellent condition given the hot, dry summer, with moderate yields across the Riesling block. Following regular assessment of the developing fruit flavours, the Riesling was hand-picked and transported to the winery in bins, where the fruit was crushed then gently pressed to tank and allowed to settle for 48 hours. The juice was then racked to tank for fermentation using an aromatic yeast. Cool fermented, the wine was tasted daily, and when the balance felt right between fruit, acidity and residual sugar the ferment was stopped by chilling down to zero. The wine stayed on its lees for a further month to build texture and richness, then was racked off its gross lees and stored in tank until bottling.

Food match
Serve alongside a lemony pasta with prawns, a pot of steamed mussels, or a beautiful snapper fillet.

Earlier vintages
2023: Gold (96 points), North Canterbury Wine Competition 2024. Gold (95 points), New World Wine Awards 2024. 5 stars, Wine Orbit. 93 points, Cameron Douglas MS. 90 points, National Wine Awards of NZ 2024. 4 stars, Yvonne Lorkin.