Te Awa Farm occupies a prime position in the Gimblett Gravels region in New Zealands Hawkes Bay. Winemaker, Jenny Dobson was a speaker at the recent Shiraz Alliance in the Barossa Valley and her description of NZ Syrah was “New world fruit - Old World structure”……I like the sound of that. Te Awa Syrah 2004...

... bi’lancia Italian. (be-larn-cha) balance, harmony and equilibrium;….that pretty much sums it up. This is a super wine with a distinct Rhone-like structure and flavour profile. The La Collina vineyard is a steep, terraced and incline planted hillside vineyard on the North/Northwest facing slopes of Roys Hill, west of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand….Gimblett Heights...

A couple of spice bombs… Zepelin Syrah 2002 (bottle 710 of 850) Te Mata Road , Hawkes Bay This wine reeked of bret (or brettoanomyces ) and on first opening had a bouquet that could only ... trees when we visited the vineyard for Harvest Hawkes Bay ) followed by a lingering licorice ... Bin’ Gewürztraminer 2004 East Coast (Gisborne and Hawkes Bay), New Zealand Yum! This is one...

A couple of spice bombs… Zepelin Syrah 2002 (bottle 710 of 850) Te Mata Road , Hawkes Bay This wine reeked of bret (or brettoanomyces ) and on first opening had a bouquet that could only ... trees when we visited the vineyard for Harvest Hawkes Bay ) followed by a lingering licorice ... Bin’ Gewürztraminer 2004 East Coast (Gisborne and Hawkes Bay), New Zealand Yum! This is one...

This is the big brother of the Block 14 Syrah. The vineyard is located in the Gimblett Gravels, latutude 39.2, rainfall 390mm, Degree Days 1480ºC. This compares to 1580 in Napa City, 1450 in Bordeaux and 1200 in Marlborough. Climate wise it is pretty similar to Bordeaux or Margaret River. ...

100% hand harvested, 5% whole bunch the remainder de-stemmed with a indigenous ferment in open top oak and stainless cuves.Aged in French oak(40%) new, for 17 months, unfined and flitered. Aromas of deep set blackberry and blueberry fruits, chocolate, meat, pepper, violets, clove and spicy well judged oak. It smells ...

Stonecroft is the home of NZ’s oldest Syrah vines and they released their first Syrah in 1989. The Syrah vineyard was established in 1984 with vines rescued from the Te Kauwhata viticultural research vine collection and the clone itself is though to be from the cuttings James Busby dragged over ...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...