Three Fates 'Gordon Russell' Chenin Blanc 2025

Three Fates 'Gordon Russell' Chenin Blanc 2025

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A special collaboration between Three Fates and luminary winemaker Gordon Russell, this Chenin Blanc comes from the Two Terraces Vineyard in the Mangatahi Terraces of Hawke’s Bay. Handpicked, foot stomped, and macerated overnight, the fruit was pressed to a mix of tank and an old 500L oak puncheon, letting nature take the lead.

Rich, full-bodied, and textured, this wine is packed with bold flavours of pineapple, passionfruit, honey, chamomile and grapefruit pith, with a layer of quince rounding it out. The 2024 vintage —one of the best in years— brings intensity and balance, with the skins adding a lovely mouthfeel and depth. It’s a Chenin Blanc that’s both vibrant and complex, with a nod to the wines of Vouvray.

The label, in bright yellow, ties it all together. The artwork is an adaptation of Fane Flaws’ “The Bird Watcher,” a piece that’s been a part of the Russell family home since 2004. A fitting tribute to the blend of tradition, family, and the evolving vision of Three Fates.

 

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Three Fates

The Three Fates Story


Three Fates is the winegrowing and winemaking project of Holly Girven Russell, Casey Motley, and Hester Nesbitt. In June 2020 the group took on the farming of a small hillside vineyard in Maraekakaho, Hawke's Bay. With fruit quality and vine health as the focus, they were delighted to have a brilliant growing season for their debut. 

All three have spent years chasing the sun; following ripening fruit to cellars across the world from California to Burgundy, England to Canada, Austria to the Northern Rhone, and a few pit stops in Australia and New Zealand. They've seen winemaking on all sorts of scales, but are united in their approach to focus on careful, gentle winemaking. Respect is shown to the fruit, letting the grapes show themselves through fermentation and into the bottle with little intervention necessary along the way.

Outside the winery, the Three Fates team has a mutual interest in food, travel, and culture. There's always a holiday being planned, an art gallery to visit, a music festival to attend, and a laundry list of restaurants to try or recipes to cook. Three Fates wines are made to be enjoyed in good company over a delicious meal.

 

In Greek Mythology the Three Fates, or Moirai, were the incarnations of destiny. They controlled the mother thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. 

Clotho (spinner) spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle, Lachesis (allotter) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod, Atropos (inevitable) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time was come, she cut their life-thread with her shears.

We embody the Morai as we bring the dormant vineyard to life in spring and weave our way through the season until the thread is cut and our vinous bounty becomes wine. Salut!

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