With lovely, intense lime and lemon juice notes, hints of lemon grass and herbs with some orange blossom, the 2012 Riesling is a light-bodied, dry style Riesling (just three grams per liter of residual sugar) with a crisp acid line, citrus flavors and a long, mineral finish. Drink it now to 2018+. A winery that really needs no introduction for NZ Pinot lovers, there’s not much for me to add about the long-serving, dedicated team behind Ata Rangi – they just go from strength to strength. The Pinots have always been great, and yet even in a world where the Pinot benchmark gets higher every year, Ata Rangi is better than ever. (Almost equally impressive though are Petrie and Craighall Chardonnays, clearly getting a lot of love in the cellar from highly skilled winemaker Helen Masters.)