RADFORD ROAD
LOWBURN OTAGOFor three decades, its guardians searched for this exact land — soils of rare calibre, their richness built slowly over centuries.
When at last it was found, it was not planted in haste but with intention: established for resilience, sustainability, and the future of wine. Here, ancient ground meets modern mastery.
Above the frost, beside the lake and rooted in those ancient glacial soils, the vineyard exists in a natural equilibrium. Light, altitude and air flow combine to create a long, measured growing season — the foundation for wines of clarity, structure and quiet power.
From these soils comes Radford — a wine of precision, depth and enduring balance.
In the heart of Central Otago, above the valley floor, lies Radford Road, a vineyard quietly revealed. To arrive is to crest the gravel path and step onto an island of protection: a terrace where cold air drains away, leaving only clarity, sunlight, and silence. Behind it rises the Pisa Range in quiet majesty; before it, the sweep of Lake Dunstan. This is a place of mana, shaped by glaciers and held in reverence for generations.
Pinot Noir Blanc
Crafted by pressing Pinot Noir grapes with extreme delicacy — capturing only the purest juice and leaving colour, weight and tannin behind. Radford Pinot Noir Blanc reveals aromatics of Northern Italian herbs and a palate rich in nectarine, citrus zest and wild raspberry. To be enjoyed in every season.
”Pristine and finely scented, the bouquet reveals white-fleshed peach, watermelon, lemon peel, and white flower nuances. It’s brilliantly focused and flowing in the mouth, delivering bright fruit flavours with elegant texture and beautifully pitched acidity, finishing splendidly long and mouth-watering. It’s fabulously styled and expressed, offering terrific drinking”
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
”A delicate pink hue leads to a bouquet of blossoms and flowers, there’s a lees and white spice quality then aromas of pears and apple, some citrus and raspberry leaf. A dry wine with a chalky texture and backbone of acidity and flavours that reflect the bouquet of pomaceous and citrus fruits with an echo of white fleshed stone fruit. Nice level of purity and style with best drinking from day of purchase through 2028”
Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier
Pinot Noir
Plush and expansive, with rich black cherry, raspberry compote and dark forest fruits framed by silky tannins and fine natural acidity. Generous and beautifully textured, while retaining freshness, aromatic lift and impressive detail through the finish.
”An excellent bouquet filled with scents of site and ripe red berry fruits, a mineral earth quality suggesting baking spices and ark, some smoky wood and baking spices of clove and vanilla. Youthful, complex and enticing on the palate and equally enticing wine with core flavours of black cherry and dark-skinned plums, black currant and earth-smoke of dark soils and tone. The wood smoke and baking spice qualities push through the palate contrasted by the acid line and grab of tannins – in abundance. Well made, lengthy, new and vibrant with the best drinking from late 2026, even sometime in 2027 through 2034”
Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier