Hãhã 2022 Hawke’s Bay Syrah

Vintage 2022 provided the warmest weather on record in New Zealand. This along with favourable rain postflowering set up a fantastic fruit crop for our 2022 wines. An early and compact harvest coupled with hard work allowed our talented winemakers to produce fabulous wines that rival the last two years vintages with well balanced flavour and acidity. The fruit for our 2022 Syrah was sourced from a tightly-centered group of vineyards in the Bridge Pa sub-region of Hawke’s Bay. The grapes were harvested into small bins to ensure we had whole berries for fermentation. The fruit was cold soaked in open top fermenters for a brief period before the fermentation process kicked off with natural yeasts from the vineyard and winery. Post fermentation the wine was pressed to oak to undergo malolactic fermentation. It was then assembled, filtered and bottled.