Gewürztraminer 2022

Blackenbrook

Gewürztraminer 2022

Produced in the Alsace region for hundreds of years, Gewurztraminer wines are vibrant and intensely aromatic.

Perfect as an aperitif with a melt-in-your-mouth Camembert, dried figs and Nelson walnuts or with your favourite Indian curry - just beautiful!   
 

$24.00 NZD

Tasting Notes

A compellingly perfumed Gewürztraminer with notes of rose petal, Turkish delight and star anise; soft and seductive, but not sweet.

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Ripe bunches of Gewurztraminer grapes at harvest time. The grapes are pink and glow in the warm sun light. Around the grapes there are green leaves and in the background there is the next row of vines with bird netting draped over the top and blue sky.
Owner Daniel Schwarzenbach and son Thomas are working on the yellow net application machine. The weather is brilliant and in the background you can see the vibrant green vineyard.

Reviews

4½ Stars Michael Cooper, michaelcooperwines.com

A consistently attractive wine. Estate-grown and hand-harvested, the 2022 vintage was mostly handled in tanks, but 5% of the blend was matured in old oak barrels.

Perfumed and mouthfilling, it is clearly varietal, with strong, vibrant, peachy, distinctly spicy flavours, slightly gingery notes, fresh acidity and a basically dry finish.

4 Stars Yvonne Lorkin, yvonnelorkin.com

From Nelson’s famous Moutere clay soils comes the new vintage of one of my favourite gewürz producers. 2022 was a tricky vintage, but the Blackenbrooks have done an excellent job of creating a clean, spice-driven, exotically-textured wine.

Rose petals, soft peachy tones, good acidity, hints of ginger and persimmon and a fresh, grin-inducing finish.

Certified vegan

To make this wine, we haven't used classic fining agents such as fish, milk, or egg extracts and only minimal additives.

This means our Gewürztraminer is very natural and vegan friendly. In fact, it is certified by the New Zealand Vegetarian Society.

Isabelle Schwarzenbach picking white grapes. She's working on a very old vine with a large trunk. The grass and leaf canopy are vibrant green and the sun is shining.

The season

Our 20th year of growing grapes at Blackenbrook Vineyard!

Mother Nature gave us beautiful spring weather for flowering and pollination, setting us up for a good crop.

Summer was quite wet and the vines grew at a crazy pace. We kept mowing, trimming and leaf-plucking the fruit zone but it was a real struggle to stay on top of the phenomenal growth.

Going into harvest the fruit was clean but extremely fragile – and so were our nerves. But two weeks of stunning autumn weather was all we needed to hand-pick our biggest crop ever with beautiful ripeness and flavours – a challenging season with a happy ending.