2025 la collina Syrah
This wine is limited: Please contact us to enquire about purchasing 2025 la collina
2025 was an extremely unique and fantastic vintage for both Chardonnay and Syrah; perhaps one of the very best of 30 years of growing and making wine in Hawke's Bay. A very forgiving spring and early summer with no significant frost events, exceptional flowering and a dry and cool but very sunny summer. So cool (or not hot…) in fact that we did not record one day over 30oC throughout the entire season however, there were very many cloudless days in the Goldilocks zone of 20 to 30oC together with generally cool nights.
As always the fruit was hand harvested in perfect condition and this allowed for 100% whole bunch fermentation. The wine was fermented in open top fermentation vessels with gentle plunging once a day, pressed at dryness and transferred to barriques for malolactic fermentation and subsequent élevage.
Our aim is to produce a wine that shows the excitement of Hawke's Bay hillside Syrah. The 2025 la collina is a another great example of this; spice, brambly and berry fruits with structure, length, velvety tannins and drinkability but still with the ability to age.
This is a great wine to enjoy now but will live for many years in your cellar. Cellar some and enjoy again, and again, over the next 15 - 20 years.
Each wine is a journey not a destination!
(Ralph Waldo-Emerson - kind of!)
James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com
September 10, 2026
99 Points
"Incredibly complex aromas of blackberry, meat, black pepper, lead pencil, green tobacco and bark with some violets. Full-bodied with superb depth of fruit that seems impossible to replicate in New Zealand, with such structure and length. Speechless. Find some."
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