Blackenbrook Vineyard

Blackenbrook

 

Reserve

 

St Jacques

 

Blackenbrook Reserve Gewürztraminer 2008

Blackenbrook Reserve Gewürztraminer 2008
Blackenbrook Reserve Gewürztraminer 2008
 

Concentrated, with great fruit purity and strong varietal characters of rose petals and Turkish Delight, this is a medium-dry style with a smooth texture and lasting finish.

The wine is built for ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2012.

Soul mates from the kitchen

Onion, Bacon and Ricotta Tart with garden-fresh greens, platter of blue vein and goat cheeses with figs and pears

  • Ideal serving temperature: 15°C

  • Single Vineyard: Home block
  • Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
  • Focus on healthy soil and strong plants
  • All vines grafted on site

Young vines producing outstanding complexity

Excellent spring weather resulted in almost perfect pollination.   A warm summer brought along healthy canopy growth leading to the earliest harvest ever. 

Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 19 March with 25.6 Brix


Extended skin contact before pressing Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
Cool fermentation, stopped at approx.
20g/ltr residual sugar
Ageing on fine lees

Minimal pumping
No fining pre-bottling
Bottled on 1 August 2008 under DIAM Cork

14.8% Alcohol

The Diam Cork

The DIAM cork guarantees a 100% cork taint free closure of wine bottles. These corks also offer near perfect seals and no random cork oxidation or leaks. The cork is reduced to cork flour, before being washed with carbon dioxide removing TCA. Subsequently the flour is reconstituted and held together by the same polymer that contact lenses are made from.


What they say...

 Bragato Wine Awards 2008
Silver Medal

Michael Cooper-4.5 stars Michael Cooper
Beautifully perfumed, softly mouthfilling wine, harvested at 25.6 brix. 

Intensely varietal, with very ripe peach, lychee and spice flavours, showing lovely depth and delicacy, and a slightly sweet, well-rounded finish.  
Bob Campbell MW-4 stars [91/100] Bob Campbell MW
Intense, syrupy wine with quince, anise, liquorice and Turkish delight flavours.
A powerful Gewurztraminer with a lingering finish in a medium/dry style.
 Jo Burzynska - Viva, New Zealand Herald

Blackenbrook is a relatively new Nelson estate that has swiftly established itself as one of the most exciting producers of Aromatics in the region.

Made by Daniel Schwarzenbach, an ex-medical chemist and microbiologist whose wine experience spans work in Europe to time as chief winemaker at Nelson's Seifried Estate, his Gewürztraminer is a soft, richly textured wine with subtle notes of the variety's Turkish delight character, as well as aniseed and Middle Eastern spice.


 Neil Hodgson - The Nelson Mail
One word says it all: intense! 

Rich heady aromas, luscious honeyed quince and Turkish delight flavours with a splash of exotic spice in the finish.  A great example of aromatic-style wines.