About The Wine
Lovat is one of Dry River's three blocks. Planted in 1992, it's a plot known to bring vibrancy to the blended wines and, as standalone site, produces wines bursting with bright fruit.
Here we see Syrah with a deep fruit profile of blackberries, raspberries, currents, and boysenberries that leaps from the glass. Complexity comes in the form of a whiff of smoky bacon and olive and structurally the tannin is velvety. The oak is all class.
A wine not to be underestimated, like so many of the Dry River wines, this is seriously delicious, but also deliciously serious.
About Dry River
The name Dry River carries an historical significance as the name of one of the earliest Wairarapa sheep stations (ca. 1877). This was later sold off by the Seddon government and renamed Dyerville, leaving the renamed Waihora River (circa 1900) and the renamed Dyerville Rd (1994) - both after Dry River - as the only reminders of this part of our pastoral farming history
In 1979 Neil and Dawn McCallum planted a vineyard a few kilometres from Dyerville in a very dry, gravely and free-draining area now called the 'Martinborough Terrace' and they took the name Dry River for the vineyard and wines in what was to become another chapter of Martinborough's farming history. Their dream was to produce individual, high quality regional wines which faithfully reflect the 'terroir', vintage and are suitable for cellaring.

Martinborough, NZ