Halite Light Dry White 2024

The Light Dry White is made as blanc de noir from organic Pinot Noir grown on the terraces of the Ruamahanga River in Martinborough.

Vineyard:

The fruit comes from the biogro certified Grava vineyard, farmed by Alistair and Karla on the dry river flats 8km south of Martinborough. The vines are grown on the terraces of the Ruamahanga river providing alluvial deposits making silt loam soils.

Winemaking:

Hand harvested, whole bunch pressed to tank where it settled for overnight then racked to large format barrel for indigenous fermentation. Five months aging on lees with a couple stirs and indigenous malolactic fermentation. Racked to tank, with a small sulphur addition and bottled unfined, unfiltered.

Tasting:

Flavours of mandarin, apple and savoury tones. This wine is energetic with a fruit purity framed on chalky phenolics and linear minerality. A refreshing style with layers and length.

Only 597 bottles produced!!!

Vegan friendly, may throw a harmless deposit in bottle.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER

Based out of Martinborough, Halite is one of Aotearoa's smallest wine producers with a focus on organics and low intervention winemaking. These are 'salt of the earth' wines. They are framed on balance, texture, and liveliness but are most importantly yum.

Halite was established by winemaker Haidee and her partner, Ben in 2021. They had recently started a family and while enjoying motherhood, Haidee was feeling the pull back into winemaking. For Haidee, Halite forms an important connection to her identity and an outlet for creative expression.

Organics are not just about farming, it is a holistic outlook which acknowledges environmental symbiotic relationships, considerations for future generations and the community that surrounds us. With this in mind, Haidee and Ben work with grape growers who farm organically and it underpins every step of their process.