The Flying Winemaker Wairarapa Field Blend 2020
- 92+
- $26
- Drink by: 2025-2026
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A field blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc. 100% barrel fermented before maturing also in barrel for 9 months. It’s lifted and richly aromatic with a plush and ripe feel and savouriness very much in the mix thanks to bottle age. Hay and honeysuckle lead the charge before an emergent build of pear, preserved lemon, ripe peach, peach blossom, toast, and candied ginger. The palate is textural and rich though with a sense of lift and control enough to balance it. Peach skin and flesh, ripe pear, lemon zest and sweet pops of honeysuckle sit above an underpinning hay and toast savouriness. It’s a food wine, and quite delicious with a pithy phenolic presence helping to frame and freshen the finish. Drink now, and at $26, go back for more.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
