Prentice Wine Winery

The dale on the label is no indication of the style: this is a very backward wine, still light yellow in shade and showing undeveloped (and somewhat unripe) cool-climate characters. It smells pea-poddy, minerally and chalky, and in the mouth it is...

This opens up with delicious strawberry/cherry aromas, with cherry-brandy overtones plus hints of sap and stalks. It turns minty with extended airing. The palate is smooth, elegant, complex and stylish. Its texture is a highlight. There's more tha...

Medium red-purple; the moderately intense bouquet has some plummy/savoury varietal character, the palate nicely focussed and correct, yet seems to have lost the edge of fruit complexity which it probably once had. That said, the best by far from t...