Cellar Door Price List

Prices valid from 1st August 2008

Puriri Hills aspires to produce wines that stand well beside the greats of the "right bank".  Our blends are proprietary and reflect the percentages of Merlot, Carmenere, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec in our five acre vineyard. Our low-yielding vines are manicured by hand. The wine is handmade, barrel aged, bottled and stored on the estate.

The following wines are currently available for sale. They can be purchased online,  from our Cellar Door, Wine Merchants and selected retail outlets. 
    

CURRENT RELEASES	Price (NZ$)
2004 Puriri Hills Estate A continuation on in the ascent of quality at this winery. The 2004 is dark ruby red, displaying a complex and forward nose of fruitcake and red currant. The palate is soft and inviting with good length. Again I am thinking ‘formal dinner claret’. Lovely intellectual style. You can see the style here – the warm fine tannins. Seems slightly more fruit forward than I remember previous vintages which may just be a reflection of the age that I am tasting it at compared with last weeks wines. Perhaps hang on to for a year.	$36 per bottle ORDER
2004 Puriri Hills Reserve This is a dark juicy style of red which in many ways has some similarities to a good vintage of Arahura’s Malbec. It is almost inky in colour. Nose is a little backward with dark boysenberry and blackberry type fruit. Very pristine. The structure is again finely boned, and elegant, warm coating ultra sleek tannins. Not an intense wine, idling and refined. Perhaps not quite the complexity of the 2005 but still extremely good. This is probably even better than the 2002 reserve. A wine to hold a while I think.	$70 per bottle ORDER
2007 Puriri Hills Rosé “Pretty pink and dry with a lovely texture and ripe fruit flavours suggesting plum, cherry and raspberry. Very attractive Rose with character and style. A good food wine. ” (Bob Campbell review)	$28 per bottle ORDER
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2006 Puriri Hills Rosé A rosé made from our best merlot fruit by the saigné method. We remove a small amount of juice from the crush 2 days after harvest to concentrate the remaining must for our reserve wine. The juice removed is a lovely apricot pink colour that is then fermented as a white wine. It is zingy, fresh and full of tart raspberries…a perfect summer wine for picnics and the beach. It should be served lightly chilled and drunk young.	$25 per bottle ORDER
2005 Puriri Hills “Pope” To compare the quality of this wine we have to look towards the great wines of St Emilion and Pomerol. Dark ruby red in colour. Compact and haunting aromas of super quality dark Swiss chocolate, Christmas cake, bran and dark fruits – very deep set aromas. The palate displays pristine and deep fresh blackberry and black plum underpinned by almost invisible coating tannins. It is slightly more backward, and slightly darker than the reserve. Again the palate shows an extra touch of weight but never is the wine forced or over extracted. The fruit is allowed to speak here, the structure is very finely boned, elegant, gentle fresh (perfect ripeness) and long. This is benchmark red wine of the absolute highest quality. This wine will not be cheap, but be assured it delivers at its price tag. I would expect this wine, if looked after, to age gracefully for more than a decade. Perhaps let it sleep for a year, but after that it will also be hard to resist young. Special occasion ‘claret’. Immaculate.	$225 per bottle ORDER
2005 Puriri Hills Reserve “An unusual blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Carmenere that might have existed in Bordeaux toward the end of the nineteenth century before phylloxera signaled the decline of Carmenere. This is a classy and exciting red from Clevedon's top producer. It's an intense wine with powerful berry and oak flavours together with subtle spice/anise and and wild herb influences. A wine of great elegance and potential.” (Bob Campbell MW review)	$120 per bottle ORDER
2005 Puriri Hills Estate “Exhuberant Merlot dominant red with masses of ripe berry and plum flavours that leap from the glass. Deliciously drinkable wine with an impeccable structure of just enough acidity to make it refreshing and a good structure of ripe tannins to give a pleasantly dry finish. ” (Bob Campbell MW review)	$60 per bottle ORDER
2003 Puriri Hills Estate "This is a fine effort for the difficult season, fleshy and rich. Full but not dense in colour, with a spicy bouquet, it is supple, with very satisfying depth of cassis, plum and spice flavours, slightly leathery, savoury and nutty."	$40 per bottle ORDER
2002 Puriri Hills Reserve An elegant wine of medium weight, very fine dusty tannins laced with red plums and red currents. The fruit was restrained and gentle showing a peacocks feather of complexity. A gentle, refined and well put together wine. There is still room to improve here, a little more weight and concentration wouldn't go amiss. (Vintage Wine Specilists review)	$72 per bottle ORDER
2002 Puriri Hills	$40 per bottle ORDER
2001 Puriri Hills	$36 per bottle ORDER
2000 Puriri Hills	$36 per bottle ORDER
1999 Puriri Hills	$36 per bottle ORDER

Should you wish to purchase any of these wines, please contact us by post, phone, fax or email us (details at the bottom of this page). We accept cheques or credit cards (Visa, Master Card and AMEX). You can also order online using our secure online ordering facility.

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Puriri Hills, 398 North Road, Clevedon, R.D. 2, Papakura, New Zealand  Ph: 64-9-292-9264     Fax: 64-9-292-9265  Email Us