Blackenbrook Family Reserve Gewürztraminer 2019
Blackenbrook Family Reserve Gewürztraminer 2019
Massive aromas of ripe pear and candied ginger, succulent and long!
Tasting Notes
Medium-dry in style, our Family Reserve Gewürztraminer 2019 abounds with delightful aromas of ripe pear and candied ginger, drawing you into a generous palate with an impressive texture and length.
Ideal serving temperature: 15°C
Our Family Reserve
In exceptional years we release wines under our Family Reserve label. They are a powerful expression of our land and our vision.
Weather Conditions
Good rainfall in spring promoted healthy canopy growth. December brought fine and dry weather, ideal conditions for a successful flowering and pollination.
From January right into harvest a heat wave and drought gripped the region. Our deep-rooting vines and the moisture-holding clay soils enabled our un-irrigated vineyard to thrive in these challenging conditions and produce a healthy crop with outstanding flavour concentration.
From Sustainable Production, accredited by Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand
Vegan wine, certified by the New Zealand Vegetarian Society
Weather Conditions
Good rainfall in spring promoted healthy canopy growth. December brought fine and dry weather, ideal conditions for a successful flowering and pollination.
From January right into harvest a heat wave and drought gripped the region. Our deep-rooting vines and the moisture-holding clay soils enabled our un-irrigated vineyard to thrive in these challenging conditions and produce a healthy crop with outstanding flavour concentration.
From Sustainable Production, accredited by Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand
Vegan wine, certified by the New Zealand Vegetarian Society
Viticulture
• 100% fruit from our Home block, clone 1106
• Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
• Manual shoot thinning, leaf plucking and crop reduction
• Hand-harvested and hand-sorted on 8 March 2019
• 23.9 Brix
Winemaking
Extremely gentle winemaking:
Extended skin contact before whole bunch pressing, gravity-fed from press area to main winery, tank fermented at low temperature to enhance aromatics and fruit-flavours, extended lees contact, minimal pumping, no fining pre-bottling
• 12g/ltr natural residual sugar
• Bottled on 17 July 2019 under screw caps
• 14.5% Alcohol