Carrot, Beetroot + Kūmara Wine

Tasting Notes

A lovely clear burnt orange colour that smells of dried fruit and tangerine skin.

This is a sweet table wine with a lush mouthfeel, it tastes like a dried fruit medley and autumn ripe apples, with a hard to describe tang that balances it all out beautifully. Creating a highly drinkable vegetable wine (you need this wine in your life just so you can say "try this, it's a highly drinkable vegetable wine!")

Winemaking Notes

IN the middle of 2024 winter when carrots are at their sweetest; there was a boil up of beetroot, kūmara and said carrots.  A wee bit of apple was added along with dried cherries.  Despite the cool weather it was a relatively fast ferment, actually too fast and I had to backsweeten the wine after it had bulk aged for four months.  The wine was bottled in January 2025 and released August 2025.

This is a very small batch of wine as I made it as an interim wine between 2022's vintage and what I knew would be a much bigger batch for 2025.

• 13.5% ABV
• Sulfite free
• Vegan + Gluten Free