Halcyon Days Big Little Things 2023
Te Matau a Māui / Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa
Chenin Blanc
11% ABV
Amy and Olly Hopkinson-Styles are two of our biggest heroes in the world of wine – dear old friends, brilliant winemakers and tirelessly passionate communicators within the global community of organic winemaking.
2023 was a challenging year in Te Matau a Māui, marked by the highly destructive Cyclone Gabrielle which struck Hawke’s Bay and the surrounding coastline in February. Yields for Amy and Olly were affected, but happily, the fruit that survived ripened well, and the resulting wines are, perhaps, the best that the pair have ever made.
Big Little Things was made from a few rows of chenin blanc grown at the Two Terraces vineyard, a very highly esteemed certified organic site in the Mangatahi subregion. Amy and Olly have been on the waiting list for a Two Terraces fruit allocation for a number of years now, and this is the first time the pair have made chenin blanc.
A portion of the fruit was direct-pressed and the other portion was destemmed and fermented on skins for a week, before the two portions were blended together to create a very lightly macerated white wine. As usual with Amy and Olly, everything was done in tank in an effort to capture energy, tension and purity of fruit. The result here is a wonderfully well-balanced array of varietal chenin characters: honeyed orchard fruit aromas, phenolic- and lees-derived texture, and electric acidity.
Brilliant as an aperitif or with some goat’s milk cheese.
Te Matau a Māui / Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa
Chenin Blanc
11% ABV
Amy and Olly Hopkinson-Styles are two of our biggest heroes in the world of wine – dear old friends, brilliant winemakers and tirelessly passionate communicators within the global community of organic winemaking.
2023 was a challenging year in Te Matau a Māui, marked by the highly destructive Cyclone Gabrielle which struck Hawke’s Bay and the surrounding coastline in February. Yields for Amy and Olly were affected, but happily, the fruit that survived ripened well, and the resulting wines are, perhaps, the best that the pair have ever made.
Big Little Things was made from a few rows of chenin blanc grown at the Two Terraces vineyard, a very highly esteemed certified organic site in the Mangatahi subregion. Amy and Olly have been on the waiting list for a Two Terraces fruit allocation for a number of years now, and this is the first time the pair have made chenin blanc.
A portion of the fruit was direct-pressed and the other portion was destemmed and fermented on skins for a week, before the two portions were blended together to create a very lightly macerated white wine. As usual with Amy and Olly, everything was done in tank in an effort to capture energy, tension and purity of fruit. The result here is a wonderfully well-balanced array of varietal chenin characters: honeyed orchard fruit aromas, phenolic- and lees-derived texture, and electric acidity.
Brilliant as an aperitif or with some goat’s milk cheese.
Te Matau a Māui / Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa
Chenin Blanc
11% ABV
Amy and Olly Hopkinson-Styles are two of our biggest heroes in the world of wine – dear old friends, brilliant winemakers and tirelessly passionate communicators within the global community of organic winemaking.
2023 was a challenging year in Te Matau a Māui, marked by the highly destructive Cyclone Gabrielle which struck Hawke’s Bay and the surrounding coastline in February. Yields for Amy and Olly were affected, but happily, the fruit that survived ripened well, and the resulting wines are, perhaps, the best that the pair have ever made.
Big Little Things was made from a few rows of chenin blanc grown at the Two Terraces vineyard, a very highly esteemed certified organic site in the Mangatahi subregion. Amy and Olly have been on the waiting list for a Two Terraces fruit allocation for a number of years now, and this is the first time the pair have made chenin blanc.
A portion of the fruit was direct-pressed and the other portion was destemmed and fermented on skins for a week, before the two portions were blended together to create a very lightly macerated white wine. As usual with Amy and Olly, everything was done in tank in an effort to capture energy, tension and purity of fruit. The result here is a wonderfully well-balanced array of varietal chenin characters: honeyed orchard fruit aromas, phenolic- and lees-derived texture, and electric acidity.
Brilliant as an aperitif or with some goat’s milk cheese.