Tangent by Alexia 2024 Wairarapa Chenin Blanc

NZ$32.00

TANGENT: from the Latin ‘tangere’, meaning to touch.

Tangent is about small parcels, emerging varieties and one-offs, made when the seasons allow.

After two seasons of no Chenin the 2024 vintage gave us a beautiful Chenin crop - full of golden bunches, bright flavours and a wonderfully taut mineral seam giving the wine intensity, texture and drive.

Picked late April, and fermented wild in stainless steel - this is a bone dry expression full of deliciously bright, pithy lemon.

Taste: Lemon, honeycomb, white florals, taut.

TANGENT: from the Latin ‘tangere’, meaning to touch.

Tangent is about small parcels, emerging varieties and one-offs, made when the seasons allow.

After two seasons of no Chenin the 2024 vintage gave us a beautiful Chenin crop - full of golden bunches, bright flavours and a wonderfully taut mineral seam giving the wine intensity, texture and drive.

Picked late April, and fermented wild in stainless steel - this is a bone dry expression full of deliciously bright, pithy lemon.

Taste: Lemon, honeycomb, white florals, taut.

The grapes for Tangent come from a small experimental block our growers Julie and Simon planted years ago but never harvested. They called it the ‘fruit salad’ block - a mixture of Chenin, Gamay, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and a couple of other varieties. A few little rows of gold in one corner of the vineyard.

The block had been growing as bush vines for the past decade, but we pulled them up onto wires and harvested grapes from them for the first time for the 2019 vintage.

The vines and the wines are both works in progress, evolving with us.