Scout | Meet The Winemaker

Scout's Sarah Adamson will be taking over the wine list at Cardwell Cellars for one Wednesday night only.

RSVP to meet Sarah and talk about these quality wines from across the water.

Wines include:

• Marlborough Pinot Gris

• Central Otago Chardonnay

• Pinot X Pinot

• Southern Valleys Pinot Noir

About Scout Wines:

Sarah Adamson and Greg Lane met in Central Otago over small batch premium Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, so their new digs back in this region has provided them with a homecoming of sorts. The couple’s careers have taken them all over the world, including the Loire, Sonoma Valley, Rheinhessen, the Adelaide Hills and Marlborough, and this collection of regions has provided them with a focussed background on extreme growing conditions, premium parcels and a leaning towards terroir-expressive, fragrant, juicy reds and textured, aromatic whites.

Sarah is currently the face of Scout (Greg is taking a back seat while he makes wines for Amitsfield), and while the spotlight will gradually shift to the immediate area, this intrepid négociant always aims to work with premium fruit from interesting sites anywhere across the South Island of New Zealand. Organically grown and sustainably farmed vineyards are sought out—Sarah believes this always shows in the wines, and that fruit grown as naturally as possible results in better flavour and transmission of the site into the wine. Scout’s wines change every year, but currently include a barrel-fermented Lowburn Chardonnay, a whole-bunch Southern Valleys Pinot Noir and a lees-matured Waipara Riesling, amongst others.

You might think that the label might refer to their scouting the country for the perfect parcels, but the brand is actually named after Jean Louis ‘Scout’ Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is both a questioner and an observer, reflecting the team’s ethos to both let the grapes and the land do what they must, but question their own practice and ideals to ensure fruition is always complete.