Our Wines

Year after year this Shafer-owned vineyard offers up wine with plush, exotic, zesty aromas and flavors. This is Shafer’s single-vineyard Carneros-grown Chardonnay, matured on the lees for around 14 months. To quote the critic Antonio Galloni, `Soft, creamy and layered in the glass, the 2019 possesses superb balance from the outset.

*Prices in bond* Awatea takes its name from the historic ship, SS Awatea  that sailed the Auckland - Sydney - Wellington route in the late 1930s.  The final blend is aged in new and seasoned French oak for 15 months. 

*Prices in bond* Coleraine ’19 is both Beauty and the Beast, capturing a new depth and power, with an exquisite perfume, and spellbinding enchantment.  A marriage of grace, refinement, strength and power.