Wooing Tree 'Blondie' Blanc de Noir Rosé

Reese Witherspoon’s favourite NZ Wine! An elegant champagne colour, the wine shows delightful aromas of white peach, tropical fruit and orange blossom with pink grapefruit, honeysuckle and a touch of lime on the palate. A Central Otago Rose favourite. 

• Winery: Wooing Tree
  
• Varietal: Pinot Noir Rosé
  
• Region: Central Otago, New Zealand
  
• Vintage: 2024
  
• Alcohol: 13%
  
• Volume: 750ml
  
• Closure: Screwcap
• Goes with: Food match: Seafood, Poultry, Salads 

This unique Blanc de Noir was made from 100% Pinot Noir grapes, grown on Wooing Tree's family owned vineyard. Ripe hand picked fruit and gentle winemaking have given a wonderfully balanced wine. The elegant champagne colour resulted from minimal skin contact prior to a gentle whole bunch press. The juice was fermented in stainless steel to retain the varietal and fruit characteristics.

Wooing Tree is a family owned single vineyard Pink Moon, nestled below the Pisa Ranges in the town of Cromwell in the heart of Central Otago, New Zealand.

Wooing Tree is owned by Steve and Thea Farquharson. They are committed to producing top quality grapes and wine and are a truly family owned and run business. Originally from farming backgrounds in North Otago, more recently we worked in IT both in Wellington and overseas.

They came back to Cromwell to run the vineyard at the end of 2004 in time for our first vintage, 2005.

Steve studied viticulture, winemaking, the wine trade and WSET Diploma in Wine at Plumpton College in the UK. He then set up a wine import company, Extreme Wines, selling wine in the UK from 2003 to 2004.

The vineyard was planted around the “Wooing Tree” and was home to our Cellar Door from 2005 – 2021. From 2021 Steve and Thea purchased another vineyard and extra land, as the original site begun its new journey as Wooing Tree Estate.

Pink Moon Vineyard is home to Wooing Tree wines now, a 17 hectare flat vineyard nestled under the Pisa Ranges. 20,000 vines were transplanted from the original site to add to the existing vines already at Pink Moon, allowing them to continue to produce Award Winning wines even adding new varietals to our range.

THE WOOING TREE 

They purchased the land whilst living overseas so they didn’t know anything about the Wooing Tree, we got an email from Robin Dicey who was developing the vineyard that there were a whole lot of trees that would have to be removed. They replied that was ok.

Unbeknownst to Steve and Thea there was a tree on the land called the Wooing Tree and it had long been a popular place for locals to woo their lovers. The impending removal of the tree bought a lot of locals out of the woodwork as the tree had to be saved. There were stories of people being conceived under the tree and it had a lot of history in the locals hearts and a campaign to save the tree was started. The story featured in the newspapers, there was even a poetry competition to save the tree. They received another email from Robin telling us about the tree’s history, once they heard this story Steve and Thea decided it had to stay and that was the obvious name for the vineyard and wine label.

Now the tree sits prominently in the middle of the vineyard, appears on their logo and the vineyard is now being referred to as Cromwell’s iconic vineyard. It is fast becoming a popular place for marriage proposals and weddings.

• 5 Stars - Wine Orbit
• Reese Witherspoon’s favourite NZ Wine (via Instagram)