Rose

This classic French rose is pale, dry and hails from Provence. It is pronounced ?X? and, yes, its flavour more than hits the spot if you love the flavours of refreshing dry pink wine from the Mediterranean - and let's face it, who doesn't?

This wine comes from the historical city of Aix-en-Provence and tastes of red fruit flavours such as summer berries, held together by a medium body and zingy finish. Its label features two Mandarin ducks, which are birds who famously stay together for life. 

Vibrant pink in colour. Lively strawberry notes combined with a creamy intensity on the palate, produces a wine of beautiful balance and length.
Food Pairing: Seafood, sashimi, salmon blini, oysters, fresh dumplings, seared tuna and more.

Alpha Domus Wines was founded in 1989 by the Ham family, which bought and planted 20 hectares of vineyard on formerly bare land on the Western Heretaunga plains, the area now known as the Bridge Pa Triangle Wine District. 

Some of the original Merlot grapes from those early plantings make their way into this juicy, off dry rose with its fresh red berry flavours, soft texture and mouth watering finish. 

Pale pink, classic Pinot Noir rose colour. Lifted floral nose of rosewater and strawberry. The palate mixes crunchy red delicious apple, ripe raspberry and cream before finishing dry. Limited supply, will sell out fast. 

This Pinot Noir Rosé is sourced entirely from the stunning Whenua Matua vineyard in the renowned Upper Moutere area of Nelson.
A deep coral hue in the glass, this single vineyard Pinot Rosé is layered with strawberry and sweet fig aromas that lead to a palate of melon, pomegranate and ripe cherry.
Finely balanced with soft phenolics and a mouth-filling creaminess, the result is a complex and refreshing Pinot Noir Rose.

This bone dry, savoury and delicious Marlborough rose is clearly next level in price but then, so too is the taste of this wine. Simon Waghorn, the winemaker, gave the hand picked grapes a warm fast ferment to provide this single vineyard rose with its dry, savoury flavours, moving the taste firmly away from a tutti fruity style into refreshingly different one. Flavours here are all about slivered almonds, dried cranberries and even an earthy note on its lingering, weighty finish.

It gains depth of flavour and body from being fermented on solids (yeast lees) and was fermented to total dryness, leaving the wine with no residual sugar. 

Comelybank Vineyard Rose is a single vineyard wine made with grapes grown by Jeff and Vanessa Hammond in the Waihopai Valley.

It is 85% Pinot Noir and 15% Pinot Gris.

The story of Astrolabe

Diversity, history and family ownership are among the reasons to try the outstanding range of wines from Astrolabe, which was founded in 1996 in Marlborough by winemaker Simon Waghorn and his partner in life and wine, Jane. 

Simon has forged a reputation for being one of New Zealand's most respected producers of aromatic white wines after winning an almost embarrassingly long string of awards for his Sauvignon Blancs. He has also forged a name for adventurously diverse winemaking - he produces dry flinty whites from the most southern vineyard in Marlborough at Kekerengu on the coast about an hour's drive south of Blenheim. He is the only winemaker to produce wines from here. 

He is also one of the few in this country to make Albarino, Chenin Blanc and a consistently outstanding range of wines from the organically certified hillside sloping site that is the Wrekin Vineyard in Marlborough. 

The winery remains family owned and is now run by two generations, including Simon and Jane as well as their adult daughters. 

It's easy to taste why Ata Rangi Rose is one of our top sellers. Dry wine and refreshing, it's an interesting blend of grapes grown in both Martinborough (64%) and Hawke's Bay (36%). It's a blend of grape varieties too, which each bring structure, fruity appeal and power to the wine; 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 16% Pinot Noir, 16% Syrah and 4% Cabernet Franc.

This is dry, fresh and medium bodied. A great rose for all seasons. Serve lightly chilled.

The name Ata Rangi is Maori for dawn sky and was chosen to portray the new beginning that the start of this winery represented for founder Clive Paton in the late 1970s.

A very special Pinot Noir with earthy aromas and fresh mushroom meets red cherry flavours, made from grapes grown on a 0.8 hectare hillside of limestone laden land on the road to Castlepoint in the Wairarapa. 

Winemaker Raffael Burki (hence the name 'B' on the label) produces this exceptional Pinot Noir from the Lime Hill Vineyard and it is a sister wine to the Johner Lime Hill Pinot Noir. 

Two exceptional wines from a tiny plot of land. Pinot lovers will relish both. 

If you love rose, check out this serious example from the small Hamden Estate vineyard in Martinborough. It's a 100% Pinot Noir Rose, made by Raffael and Christine Burki, who buy grapes from the Hamden vineyard, south of Martinborough village. This wine has the structure and tannin that make it more of a serious rose which resembles a lighter bodied red more than a pale pinkie. 

The family owned Beach House Wines turns out an impressive range of wines, including this super refreshing rose, which is made in a dry style with minimal skin contact to provide a pale colour, which is currently the trend in international roses. 

This is a fresh, dry, fruit driven red with a crisp finish. Great for a summer day or a winter's afternoon. 

Southern French rose is one of the world's most popular wines right now. Dry, fresh, crisp and pale in colour - but anything but in taste. It's all about the summer berries and a warm afternoon. 

Rose is on a roll because of wines just like this one. It's light, fresh and refreshing with lovely flavours of summer fruit like strawberries and raspberries. A great wine for a weekend afternoon or early evening. 

Dry red berry and creamy smooth rose from Big Sky Vineyards in Martinborough's Te Muna Valley. The intense summer berry flavours and interesting savoury complexity in this wine echoes the stunning landscape from which it's made. It's entirely Pinot Noir and is a relatively new addition to the Big Sky range.

The Big Sky story

Jeremy Corban and Katherine Jacobs founded Big Sky Wines in the Te Muna Valley, Martinborough, in 2005. They have since expanded their small vineyard, which is predominantly planted in Pinot Noir and also has a little Sauvignon Blanc, which they give extra textural complexity to with a little time in old oak on lees. 

Billecart-Salmon is a rare Champagne houses in that it is still owned by the original family who established it in 1818. Its founder was Nicolas-Fran?ois Billecart and most of the grapes in today's Billecart-Salmon champagnes still come from a small family owned vineyard, with the balance bought in from the Marne Valley and Montagne de Reims. 

This champagne house cultures its own yeasts, treating its base wines to long, slow, cool fermentations and the rose is a traditional champagne style - which means a small portion of still red wine (Pinot Noir) was blended into this wine to add body, texture, richness and weight.

This is a superb, mouth watering champagne from a great producer.