Tiki owes flavour intensity to subalpine conditions (NZ)

Tiki Wines is a reasonably new name on the New Zealand wine scene. We were keen to try some wines from Tiki’s Wairau Valley, Marlborough, vineyards because we could easily imagine the location throwing some big challenges at the growers, not least of which is a short growing season with heightened threat of frost late spring and early autumn. For Marlborough grapegrowers and locals who seldom venture beyond Wairau Valley township, the emergence of grapegrowing in this subalpine area will come as a surprise, reports The Marlborough Express.