Photo David Letsche

Fantastic wines, great Specials and home-made Swiss Bread will be on offer amidst our wine tanks and barrels!

It will be the last time for the season and we hope you can come along?

But the Specials are also available from our Web Site – better check it out right now!

We would love to see you this weekend,
Cheers Daniel & Ursula

Free Tasting
18 and 19 May, 1pm -5pm
51 Baldwin Rd, Tasman
Phone 03 526 6888

Wow – Michael Cooper has named our Pinot Gris 2012 ” Wine of the Week” in this week’s New Zealand Listener!

Blackenbrook Pinot Gris 2012
4 1/2 Stars from Michael Cooper

Fragrant and full-bodied, with stonefruit and spice aromas and flavours, gentle sweetness and lovely balance and depth.

Michael Cooper tasted his way through Nelson’s First XV Aromatic Wines 2012 and high-lights his favourites of the line-up.

Earlier in the year, two panels of viticultursts and winemakers had selected in a blind tasting the 15 Aromatic Wines Nelson can be most proud of this year.

Read entire article here.

Take a scenic drive out to Tasman, taste our latest wines amidst wine tanks and barrels and maybe even stock up with our amazing Christmas Specials!

Sat and Sun, 8 and 9 December, 1pm – 5pm
Blackenbrook Winery, 51 Baldwin Rd, Tasman
(turn off at the Tasman General Store)

We would love to see you,
Best Wishes
Daniel & Ursula Schwarzenbach

Masahiro Danbara of Southern Cross

I have just returned from my very first visit to Tokyo – and what a great week I had in this huge Metropolis!

I was blown away by the amazing Japanese hospitality – everybody was so welcoming and helpful – maybe I didn’t need to be so nervous after all!

It was great to finally meet our Importer Mr Danbara of Southern Cross.  We had only started working together 1 1/2 years ago, but Japan has quickly become our most important Export Market. 

Mr Danbara is working hard to promote Blackenbrook, and our wines are already available from Hokkaido to Okinawa, from Osaka to Tokyo and in countless places in between!

Wine Dinner at Bistro Jiro Betterave

Our new Shangri-La labels with Marilyn Andrews‘ colourful paintings of Nelson look great on the Japanese wine shelves.  They are positive and vibrant, standing for Nelson’s laid-back lifestyle in the sun which is so different to life in Tokyo!  The labels are hugely popular and open many a door for us…

I’ve met many customers of Southern Cross, chatted about our wines and vision, and made new friends.

New Zealand Natural Night

We hosted a wine dinner at Bistro Jiro Betterave and the fabulous New Zealand Natural Night, where we introduced New Zealand Adventure Tourism, Honey, Tea, Cosmetics and of course our wine to 170 guests – it was a buzz!

… but it was not all hard work. Mr Danbara and his friends introduced me to many kinds of amazing Japanese food:  Ramen, Soba Noodles, Nabe, Sushi,  Sashimi,  Unagi, Okonomiyaki … and of course the delicious Sake!  Cuisine is an art form in Japan and I can’t wait to go back!

The hot topics in this issue are:

• Our fresh new look
• Vegetarian Certification
• Shangri-La for Japan
• Tempting Spring Specials

To read our Newsletter click here.

Enjoy!  Daniel & Ursula Schwarzenbach

Artist Marilyn Andrews, left, and Ursula S. celebrate the new Shangri-La Art Labels.

Japanese wine importer Southern Cross is about to use Nelson art as a way of promoting wine from Nelson vineyard Blackenbrook to the Japanese market.

The Blackenbrook Art Series includes three wines using well-known Nelson artist Marilyn Andrews’ paintings: Shangri-La Sauvignon Blanc 2012 displays the painting “Summer View from Princes Drive”; Shangri-La Gewürztraminer 2011 shows “View from Stansell Ave and Shangri-La Pinot Noir 2011 is illustrated with “Pathways to Heaven”.

The first shipment of the Blackenbrook Art Series wines has just arrived in Japan and the official release in Tokyo is planned for 13 September.

Read entire Press Release here.

Artist Marilyn Andrews, left and Ursula Schwarzenbach toast to the new Shangri-La Art Series.

Art from Nelson is soon to hit shelves in Japan – on wine bottles.

Works by Marilyn Andrews are being used by a Japanese wine importer to promote wine from Blackenbrook Vineyard.

Southern Cross started importing Blackenbrook wines to Japan last year through New Zealand wine agency All New Zealand Wines.

The agency’s director, Shin Saito, said they wanted to target Blackenbrook wine more directly to Japanese buyers by creating a label that featured uniquely Nelson Art.

Read the entire article here.

View from Stansell Ave by Marilyn Andrews

 

The joint effort by the State Cinemas, the Nelson Japanese Society and the Embassy of Japan promises an amazing snapshot of Japanese local film culture

While there are internationally critically acclaimed titles in the lineup, there are also titles that you would expect to see showing at local cinemas throughout Japan.

Click here to read the Festival Programme

10 – 12 August,  Suter Theatre, Nelson

Book online at www.statecinema.co.nz or Suter ph 548 3885

Ursula S. shows off their officially certified Vegetarian Wine

Family owned and operated Blackenbrook Vineyard in Tasman, near Nelson is proud to be the first Vegetarian wine producer in the South Island approved by the New Zealand Vegetarian Society.

Blackenbrook’s white and Rosé wines will carry the Vegetarian Society Approved Trademark which is run under strict licensing criteria from the UK Vegetarian Society.

Read entire Press Release here .

He lauds the joint initiative of Yvonne Lorkin, a well-respected wine commentator, Shae Moleta from Wellington’s famed fine dining restaurant “The Ambeli“ and Blackenbrook Vineyard.

The spotlight also falls on our new information sheet Blackenbrook Gewurztraminer Flyer , a great tool in our quest to de-mystify this classical Alsatian grape variety.

Read the article here.