There can only be 1!
Church Road 1 Single Vineyard Gimblett Gravels Malbec
- Church Road "1" series - single vineyard, hand crafted, small batch wines of serious class!
- Limited stocks, all bottles individually numbered
- Trophy for Trophy for Champion New Zealand Bordeaux Red Wine (NZ Int'l Wine Show 2024), 96/100 (Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review), 97/100 (Sam Kim), 5 Stars (Cuisine magazine 2024), QUADRUPLE Gold medal winner!
- Drink now or cellar up to 15 years from vintage
The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa NZ – Gold
Sam Kim – 97 Points
Bob Campbell MW – 5 Stars
China Wine & Spirits – Gold
NZIWS Gold
Hawkes Bay Wine Awards – Gold
Cuisine 5 Stars
NZIWS Trophy
2 in stock
Already producers of an incredible line up of wines that most would give an arm and a leg for. We’re talking Church Road’s world class TOM, Grand Reserve, McDonald Series, Gwen and Estate range. They thought, heck, there’s always room for 1 more. Introducing, Church Road 1!
Single vineyard wines, hand crafted in small batches and all bottles individually numbered. This is the 2021 vintage Malbec using fruit from their Gimblett Gravels vineyard.
This must be up there with the best examples of an NZ Malbec reckon. Full bodied and loaded to the gunnels with plush, rich, dark berry fruit flavours and spice.
Scoring a whopper 96/100 with Master of Wine Bob Campbell who said “Dense wine with a chewy texture and flavours that suggest red-fleshed plum, baked earth, spice/anise and vanilla. This is a seamless and appealing wine with a sweet and fruity core that perfectly balances a firm structure of ripe tannins.”
Good to go now but crafted with the long term in mind too – cellar up to 15 years from vintage.
- 15%
- 750ml
- Cork
