The Coopers Creek Select Vineyards range (a.k.a. SV) is turning heads. A set of small batch, carefully crafted, award winning wines, some of them might be new to you, others benchmark expressions of their varietal. From exotic aromatics to deep, engrossing reds Coopers Creek's SV range offers food-friendly wine styles that inspire and excite.
The fruit for each wine is selected from its vineyard source, carefully vinified and blended to achieve a pure expression of its origins.

Each SV wine has a nickname: an affectionate and often quirky reference to its origins, its style or simply a slice of Coopers Creek  history.

The fruit for this wine is sourced from the Chalk Ridge block just to the south of Havelock North. It is so named due to the amount of fractured limestone in the soil profile. It is a very steep vineyard and is very difficult to work (too steep for a tractor, so we had to purchase a crawler). The vineyard faces due north and is very warm during the day.

Very typical Viognier aromas of peach and apricot blossom and ripe stonefruit. Along with this there is a degree of complexity that we seldom see in New Zealand wines. We use the wines of Condrieu as our benchmark for this variety and aromatically this wine is trending in that direction.
A big rich wine. Like all good Viognier, the palate is very broad and very long. There is a strong core of fruit sweetness running all the way through the wine.