Since its first vintage in 1990, Forrest Estate has carved out a high reputation for its appetisingly crisp whites, and perfumed rich-flavoured reds.
Marlborough with its abundant sunshine, cool nights and dry autumn climate, allow the grapes a long flavour-intensifying ripening period, that has awakened the world to the beauty of New Zealand Wines.
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Forrest Estate Botrytised Chenin Blanc 2003
The result of all these efforts is a luscious dessert wine, lemon green in colour, youthful yet harmonious wine, delicately scented with intensely ripe flavours of lemons, apples, apricots and just a hint of honey. It's refined rich and alluring with great length and beautiful balance on the palate. A ... more
BN#167293
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Forrest Estate Botrytised Riesling 2005
The result of all these efforts is a delicious dessert wine, lemon gold in colour with fabulous citrus aromas and an unctuous sweet palate. The nose is intensely Riesling in character; alive with the flavour of limes, mandarins, tangelos and just a hint of apricot. Whilst the palate has the ... more
BN#181684
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Forrest Estate Chardonnay 2005
The epitome of my style of chardonnay - fresh vibrant fruit flavours, subtle oak and focused acidity. It abounds with citrus (lemon/grapefruit) and stonefruit (nectarine/white peach) flavours and that lovely yeast lees derived, oaten/toffee biscuit aroma. Soft and harmonious with excellent depth and weight on the palate, the wine will ... more
BN#223045
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Forrest Estate Dry Riesling 2004
Minerally, almost salty in character the Estate Dry Riesling expresses the stoney riverbed gravels in which the wines are grown – its terroir! An attractive, austere dry wine in the mouth, concentrated with very good length of lime, apple and turpentine flavours. The mineral character of the wine is an ... more
BN#223051
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Forrest Estate Gewurztraminer 2004
The 2004 Gewurztraminer will not disappoint its many devotees, delicate perfumed, rich and weighty on the palate with a gentle acid finish. Alive on the nose and in the mouth with tropical fruits lychee and rambutan, exotic spices cloves and nutmeg and just that hint of rose water. Full and ... more
BN#167297
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Forrest Estate Gewurztraminer 2005
The 2005 Gewurztraminer will not disappoint its many devotees - delicately perfumed, rich in flavours and weighty on the palate with a gentle acid finish. Alive on the nose and in the mouth with tropical fruits – lychee and rambutan, exotic spices – cloves and nutmeg, and just that hint ... more
BN#185922
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Forrest Estate Pinot Noir 2004
Instantly appealing the 2004 vintage is an attractive mulberry-hued red colour, full fruited, soft and rounded, its very drinkable. It shows excellent depth of cherry, raspberry and strawberry flavours; subtle forest floor/earthy aromas and a nicely integrated smoky oak finish. A great each way bet for drinking or medium term ... more
BN#167291
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Forrest Estate Pinot Noir 2005
Our Pinot vines are now on average 10 years old, and are developing greater depth of fruit complexity and tannin structure as they age, balancing Wines that combine grace and generosity, when they are treated with restraint and respect. Our 2005 Pinot was fermented in small open-top tanks, hand plunged, ... more
BN#230796
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Forrest Estate Riesling 2004
A pot pouri of flavours from three vineyards, it's a deliciously aromatic wine richly flavoured and zesty. Harvested with a small amount of noble rot (botrytis) adding a subtle honey aroma to a wine bursting with mandarin, apricot, pear and lemon blossom flavours. Stop-fermented in a medium/dry (14.0g/l) style its ... more
BN#167298
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Forrest Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2004
Classical Forrest Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc at its very best, pungent on the nose the flavours spring from the glass. Tropical fruits, paw paw, mango, passionfruit; berry fruit, blackcurrant, cranberry, gooseberry; aromatic herbs - rosemary, thyme and sage and finally floral aromas of elderflower and lantana that engulf a room ... more
BN#167294
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Forrest Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2006
Classical Forrest Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc at its very best – pungent on the nose the flavours spring from the glass. Aromatic herbs – rosemary, thyme and sage, floral aromas of elderflower, tropical fruits – paw paw, mango, passionfruit and hints of berry fruit – blackcurrant, cranberry and gooseberry.
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BN#211927
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