Olssens - Wine from Central Otago, New Zealand
 

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The Wines
"in this place of beauty, wines are beautifully made".

We are focused on producing premium quality boutique wines.
They include;

Slapjack Creek Reserve Pinot Noir
Made only in those years where the wine quality is superior. A deliciously full bodied wine, containing layers of complexity with well integrated oak, deep purple in colour and exuding flavours of black cherries, plums, and savoury mushrooms and bacon. It is seductively smooth, and lingers in the mouth.
Cellar for 4 to 10 years    [ view / print notes ]

Jackson Barry Pinot Noir

Deep purple in colour and displaying vibrant flavours of ripe cherries, black plums, and mushrooms laced with strong spicey oak. It is full and smooth in the mouth, with a long finish.
Cellar for 4 to 10 years    [ view / print notes ]

Nipple Hill Pinot Noir
A well balanced, lighter style but well rounded wine. Matured in tank with oak influence to suit the weight of the wine, it displays the delicious aromas and flavours of Pinot Noir without being heavy or over wooded. Named for the hill adjacent to the vineyard.
Cellar for 2 to 8 years   [ view / print notes ]

Summer Dreaming
This is a rose style Pinot Noir made especially for those gorgeous long summer evenings or to sip on a verandah at lunch. Red strawberry in colour it is dry and exudes soft Pinot Noir flavours and aromas.
Cellar for 2 to 3 years   [ view / print notes ]

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Charcoal Joe Reserve Chardonnay
This wine is full bodied with melons and citrus on the nose and lovely integration of oak providing a mouth filling experience for the affectionado.
Cellar for 2 to 10 years  [ view / print notes ]

The Bannockburn Club Chardonnay
An un-oaked Chardonnay - displaying fresh and crisp stone fruit characters and offers delicious summer drinking. Try serving it with fish or chicken dishes and enjoy the unadulterate taste of real Chardonnay.
Cellar for 2 to 5 years   [ view / print notes ]

Tom Logan Pinot Gris  - first vintage has been released in September 2009
Made in an off-dry style, this wine is rich and soft on the palate with pear and apple flavours with a rich minerally and lingering stonefruit finish.
Cellar for 2 to 5 years   [ view / print wine notes ]

Sauvignon Blanc

A crisp, clean wine displaying gooseberry and tropical fruit flavours. It makes excellent summer drinking and is distinctively Alsace in style.
Cellar for 2 to 5 years   [ view / print wine notes ]

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Riesling  [Dry]
A classically crisp and dry wine, full of lime and lemon flavours that fill the mouth and linger. This wine is very European in style and whilst very tasty now, it will reward cellaring.
Cellar for 2 to 12 years   [ view / print notes ]

Annieburn Riesling  [Sweet]

Displays citrus aromas with nectarines and stone fruit flavours. The natural fruit sweetnesscompliments the tangy finish, giving the wine length and elegance.

Cellar for 2 to 10 years  [ view / print notes ]

Gewurztraminer
A sumptuous mouthfilling wine made in a dry style. The bouquet of rose petals, lychees and cloves gives a hint of what is to come; a concentrated mid palate and a long finish.
Cellar for 2 to 10 years   [ view / print notes ]

Robert the Bruce
"A Bannockburn Red", is undoubtedly the owners folly; a blend of Pinotage, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz grapes that are located on a hot, stony north west slope of the vineyard. It is classic Southern Rhone in style, dry and full with smooth aromas and flavours of mushrooms and cow byres. Made in minute volumes, it is very much, first come first served.
Cellar for 2 to 8 years   [ view / print notes ]

Award winning wines
 


Desert Gold

Late harvest Riesling, the first vintage of 2000, was so delicious we were tempted to keep it all. The wine is light gold in colour and has the most stunning nose, full of tropical fruit and citrus. It exudes ripe pink grapefruit on the nose and the smooth mouth filling flavours follow, exactly as your first glimpse tells you they should. Another low volume speciality, this wine is superb already but will reward those who can keep it, for who knows how many years.
Cellar for 4 to 10 years  [ view / print notes ]

Autumn Gold
Late harvest Chardonnay, first produced in 2002. The wine is light gold in colour and has a most amazing nose, full of stone fruit and liquid raisins. Another low volume speciality, this wine is superb already but will substantially reward those who can keep it.
Cellar for 4 to 10 years   [ view / print notes ]

Verjuice
Produced from green Chardonnay grapes harvested in early February, some two months prior to normal harvesting. This is a deliciously astringent cooking supplement. A cross between lemon and vinegar it is a wonderful ingredient in various dishes as well as for marinades, dressings or even reduced as a dessert accompaniment. Try it as mixer in your gin and tonic or use to dip your oysters in. It contains no alcohol.
Will keep unopened for the next 24 months and 6 to 10 weeks in the fridge, after opening.                         [ view / print notes ]

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Pinot Noir
 
 


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Olssens · 306 Felton Road · Bannockburn
Tel: 03 445 1716 · Fax: 03 445 0050 · wine@olssens.co.nz


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