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Rapaura Springs is a somewhat surprising rising star in the Marlborough wine scene. They are owned by the Naylon family, and I tasted with Brendan Naylon and Sam Harrop who is a consultant here, helping out with winemaking and marketing. Matt Thomson is also involved on the winemaking side.<\/p>\n
Rapaura Springs stems from the Spring Creek Vintners contract winemaking facility, which is a 6000 ton facility (big, but nowhere near the biggest in the region). They have access to good vineyard sources and this is the basis of the brand. Previously, they were making 40 000 cases for Coles, but now they’ve set their sights higher. Sam became involved in 2014 and began working closely with the winemaking team, doing trials, and encouraged them to start marketing single-vineyard wines at higher price points. Rapaura Springs have also recently purchased the St Lukes vineyard in the Awatere, which will increase their access to good fruit.<\/p>\n
These are impressive wines, especially considering their price points.<\/p>\n
Rapaura Springs Sauvignon Blanc 2017 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Rapaura Springs Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2017 Marlborough, New Zealand Rapaura Springs Bull Paddock Sauvignon Blanc 2017 Marlborough, New Zealand Rapaura Springs Pinot Gris Reserve 2017 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Rapaura Springs Chardonnay Reserve 2017 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Rapaura Springs Pinot Noir 2015 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Rapaura Springs Reserve Pinot Noir 2016 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Rapaura Springs Limestone Terrace Pinot Noir 2016 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> THE MARLBOROUGH WINE REGION<\/strong><\/p>\n Part 1, Te Whare Ra<\/a> Rapaura Springs is a somewhat surprising rising star in the Marlborough wine scene. They are owned by the Naylon family, and I tasted with Brendan Naylon and Sam Harrop who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,352],"class_list":["post-21218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-marlborough","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21225,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions\/21225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n60% Awatere, 40% Wairau. Brightly aromatic with nice green hints. Good texture in the mouth: polished and smooth with lovely weight. 88\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5279-500x308.jpg\")
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\n<\/strong>Mostly Wairau Valley. Taut, aromatic and showing a twist of reduction, this is pretty with some floral passionfruit, a bit of flint. Crisp, stony and focused with lovely fruit. 91\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/rapauraspringssauvignon-500x364.jpg\")
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\nThis is a 30 hectare vineyard in Dillons Point. Nicely textured with good weight and focus, with a bit of savoury detail. Lovely acidity here with some saline notes. Understated with good concentration. 92\/100<\/p>\n
\nDry, textured, quite fresh and grapey with a bit of spiciness. Nicely focused with bright citrus fruit. Has nice spicy detail. 90\/100<\/p>\n
\nThis has nice depth, with a touch of spicy matchstick and a subtle herby edge to the citrus and pear fruit. Quite linear with nice focus. 90\/100<\/p>\n
\nAll barrel. Very floral, bright raspberry and cherry fruit. Perfumed with a hint of ginger and spice. Supple and expressive with nice cherry fruit on the palate, with fine herbal notes. Nice precision here. 89\/100<\/p>\n
\nTextured and refined with nice density and a bit of spiciness. Nice concentration and texture with raspberry and cherry fruit and some well integrated oak. Ripe with a savoury twist. 92\/100<\/p>\n
\n40% new oak. From limestone soils in Ward in the Awatere, this is supple and understated with real finesse to the red cherry fruit. There’s lovely acidity here with a red fruit focus and some floral freshness, as well as good acidity. Fine spices and some grip on the finish. 94\/100
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\nPart 2,\u00a0 Mahi<\/a>
\nPart 3, Fromm<\/a>
\nPart 4, Saint Clair Pioneer Block wines<\/a>
\nPart 5, Spy Valley<\/a>
\nPart 6, Two Rivers<\/a>
\nPart 7, Zephyr<\/a>
\nPart 8, Framingham<\/a>
\nPart 9, Clos Henri<\/a>
\nPart 10, Brancott, Stoneleigh and Deutz<\/a>
\nPart 11, Meeting the Vandals<\/a>
\nPart 12, The Growers’ Story<\/a> (video)
\nPart 13, Novum<\/a>
\nPart 14, Folium<\/a>
\nPart 15, Villa Maria<\/a>
\nPart 16, Corofin<\/a>
\nPart 17, Hans Herzog
\nPart 18, Te Pa<\/a>
\nPart 19, Giesen’s single vineyard wines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"