Puriri Hills

Puriri Hills are one of NZ's finest makers of Bordeaux style reds; that includes any producer you care to name, Stonyridge, Te Mata, Craggy Range and Trinity Hill et al! Devotees of Puriri Hills will likely tell you from their experience that they are NZ's finest maker of Bordeaux style blends.
Their reputation for quality and value is hard earned by proprietor Judy Fowler's unwillingness to bottle anything off her boutique vineyard that doesn't meet the uncompromising standards she sets for her cellar-worthy Puriri Hills Estate, Reserve or Pope labels.
They're widely regarded as the closest thing to the fine wines of St Emilion and Pomerol in NZ and we regard the wines as perhaps NZ's finest Merlot-dominant blends.

Puriri Hills reputation grows with every release and is set to go into the stratosphere with the release of the 2010s, regarded as the finest vintage yet for this 20-year-old producer.