Latest News & Reviews
Competition awards and wine reviews for our current releases.
Reviews and accolades for previous vintages are available with the tasting notes for each wine in the wines section.
Christmas and New Years opening hours
We will be open 10.00am - 5.00pm everyday over the Christmas/New Year,apart from the public holidays - December 25th/26th and January 1st/2nd. We here at Lawson's Dry Hills would like to thank you all for your support throughout 2017 and would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
RESERVE SAUVIGNON BLANC 2016 - FIVE STARS
The Lawson's Dry Hills Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2016 has been awarded FIVE STARS and placed FIRST in the TOP TEN listing in the latest Cuisine Magazine tasting (186).
The Marlborough Flyer
The magnificent heritage steam train that will launch on 1st December this year between Picton and Blenheim has been officially named “The Marlborough Flyer”. Comments Paul Jackson, managing director of Pounamu Tourism Group, the company behind the Marlborough Flyer, “The name was partially inspired by the Kingston Flyer which has links to the region (we respectfully...
Yachting New Zealand and Lawson's Dry Hills wines - A great match.
Yachting New Zealand and Lawson’s Dry Hills wines a great match. The New Zealand sailing fraternity have had plenty to celebrate in recent days and can now do so in style after a partnership between Yachting New Zealand and Lawson’s Dry Hills wines was signed last week. Lawson’s Dry Hills have become the official wine sponsor of Yachting New Zealand for the next...
Vintage Report 2017
Marlborough is one of the world's most consistent grape-growing regions when it comes to the climate. Known for the long growing season with hot days and cool nights deep into autumn, wines from this province continue to thrill the world. This year, the season wasn't quite as predictable and this gave our skilled viticultural and winemaking teams the chance to draw on their expertise...
Gold medal for Riesling
The Lawson's Dry Hills Riesling 2015 has been awarded a GOLD MEDAL at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards 2017, this award comes hard on the heels of the same wine being selected as FIVE STARS AND BEST BUY in the March issue of Cuisine magazine(issue 181) "This Riesling has length and elegance"
American Airlines & Lawson's Dry Hills.
American Airlines have confirmed our multi award winning LDH Sauvignon Blanc 2015 will be poured in business class as part of their inflight pouring program for 2016.
Vintage Report 2016.
This season looked very promising from the outset and didn’t disappoint. That’s not to say there weren’t challenges…such as very little rainfall and potentially larger than usual crops. The dry, sunny weather during December meant flowering was very good – the first indicator that crop size could be greater than anticipated. The weather continued to be dry and warm and with barely...
Gold Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards - London.
A "Gold Medal" for our Lawson's Dry Hills "Wairau" Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2015 at the Decanter World Wine Awards in London this week.