Lowburn vineyard Surveyor Thomson Wines teamed up with Earnslaw owner-operator Real Journeys to re-label 280 cases of its single-vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2009 as TSS Earnslaw: Celebrating 100 Years.
The wine was awarded a silver medal in the 2012 Decanter World Wine Awards. It will be retailed at Walter Peak High Country Station, which the steamship cruises to and from.
"It's a great opportunity because people will want to take something away with them as a high-quality souvenir and representative of Central Otago as a world-renowned wine-producing region," the general manager of Surveyor Thomson Wines, Claudio Heye, said yesterday.
Mr Heye said the company also enjoyed cultivating its historical links with the resort and steamship.
Intrepid British surveyor John Turnbull Thomson covered Otago on horseback in 1857 and early 1858 and named many natural features after places from home, such as Mt Earnslaw, which he named after his grandfather's farm.
Surveyor Thomson Wines was owned by David Hall-Jones, the surveyor's great-great grandson, Mr Heye said.
