Blackenbrook Vineyard

Sam Kim, the lead wine commentator for the Grill Magazine just published a glowing review of our beautiful wine region:

The Nelson Region is a strong silent type. Not as flamboyant as Central Otago and dwarfed in size by its neighbour, Marlborough. Perhaps it’s because every Nelson winery is family owned and they simply go about making good wines. And there’s no doubt Nelson produces some of the country’s most irresistible and gratifying wines.

As we embrace and celebrate regionality, it is fitting to pay more attention to this little region renowned for gloriously perfumed aromatics and sumptuously delicious Burgundy varieties.

I love the precision and clarity of flavours from the Plains where some of the most intensely flavoured Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling come from. Yet I equally adore the more textural wines from the Hills.

Seifried Estate’s Gewürztraminers and Rieslings are meltingly delicious, and so are Blackenbrook’s Aromatics, which show lovely perfume and richly textured mouthfeel. Then there’s the indigenous yeasts and barrel-fermented style of Neudorf Moutere Pinot Gris which display astonishing complexity and silkiness.

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