TANTALUS ESTATE
From the heart of Onetangi Valley, Waiheke Island.
Many first discover our wines over lunch at Tantalus Estate Restaurant or during a tasting at our Cellar Door. Our online cellar brings together our current Estate and Reserve releases, available for delivery throughout New Zealand.
Winemaker Alex Perez combines traditional winemaking techniques with state-of-the-art innovation. Handpciked, basket pressed, unfined, and using indigenous and selected yeasts, our excluisve wines are boutique, refined, and a true reflection of the vintage and the terrior. We lovingly craft each wine with a focus on elegance, subtlety and our unique expression of Rhoné and Bordeaux styles.
Tantalus Estate is proud to be named one of the Top 100 Wineries of New Zealand for the last seven years by The Real Review (2016-2026).
Bob Campbell MW / Real Review
"...producing a range of very stylish Reserve red wines and a top chardonnay from the very first vintage. The quality level has remained high..."
The Reserve Range showcases Tantalus Estate’s flagship releases, inspired by the idea of something beautiful hidden in plain sight.
ÉCLUSE
French for “lock”, Écluse is a Left Bank-style blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Dark berries, violet and graphite are supported by firm tannins and a long finish.
ÉVOQUE
From the French “to evoke”, Évoque draws inspiration from the bell tower overlooking Tantalus Estate. This Merlot-led Right Bank-style blend layers plum and black cherry with dark chocolate, wild herbs and tobacco.
VOILÉ
Meaning “veiled”, Voilé is Syrah co-fermented with a small amount of Viognier. Blueberry and pepper meet violet, smoked olive and spice, carried by velvet tannins.
CACHETTE
French for “hiding place”, Cachette is a single-vineyard Chardonnay, foot-stomped and barrel-aged. Ripe stone fruit and crème brûlée richness are balanced by flinty gunsmoke and bright lime acidity.
Reviews
Voilé Syrah 2016
"Gorgeously fruited and savoury at the same time, showing dark berry, tapenade, cured meat, cedar and toasted spice aromas on the nose, leading to a generously weighted palate offering ripe fruit intensity together with silky texture and fine-grained tannins. Elegantly styled with multi-layered mouthfeel. At best now to 2023".
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Cachette Chardonnay 2019
A rich and perfumed bouquet with aromas of ripe stone fruits and citrus peel, there are scents of sweet oak and fine toasty barrel spices, raw cashew nut butter then a fine stony earthy quality. Full-bodied and equally rich and highly scented on the palate. There's no mistaking oak carried easily by the roastes stone fruit and baked apple flavours, moments of citrus then smoke and new barrel spices. Fine wood tannins and medium acidity bring texture and length. A well made wine with a core of power and richness with best drinking upon release and through 2027+".
Cameron Douglas, MS
Écluse Cabernets/Merlot/Malbec 2016
"Immensely complex and luxurious with dark fruit richness, tar, leather, spicy oak and subtle tobacco aromas, it's sophisticated and powerful at the same time with gorgeously layered texture combines with firm tannins, making it sturdy and imposing. At its best now to 2034".
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit (June 2021)
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