Lawson's Dry Hills
The original company vineyard was planted in 1980 by Ross and Barbara Lawson, who launched the Lawson’s Dry Hills label some twelve years later, in 1992. Today, the company’s wines include Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and their famous Gewurztraminer, all made from fruit grown in Wairau, Waihopai, Omaka and Awatere Valleys. These different regions and carefully selected vineyard sites provide varying characteristics derived from the different soils and microclimates, giving many options when it comes to blending to that much-anticipated Lawson’s style.
The dedicated bunch of people that make up the small team at Lawson’s Dry Hills are very ‘hands on’, living and breathing every part of the viticultural and winemaking process. They do a lot of talking and tasting before pouring our shared inspiration into every bottle.
The resulting wines offer an authentic expression of the place and the grape variety they are made from together with a certain special something that they believe can only come from passion.
Tasting Notes
Pale straw in colour. The wine combines big ripe aromatics with a serious palate that displays complexity and great texture. Passion fruit, pawpaw and lime aromas leap from the glass. The palate displays these characters and more with a chalky texture, lovely complexity and a crisp grassy finish.
Packed full of ripe aromatics, with beautiful palate weight and intensity. This wine showcases two of our vineyards in Marlborough's Southern Valleys sub region, strong citrus and passion fruit notes are complemented by ripe tropical fruit and some fresh herb flavours. A small portion was fermented in older French oak barriques, which has added texture and complexity to this wine.
Cellaring: Three to five years
Food Match
Enjoy in moderation with the fresh clean flavours of Japanese food, fresh raw oysters or cooked fish with a lemon sauce.
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