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Wine from Hawke's Bay
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Wines and Varieties
Red Wines: Hawke’s Bay is particularly famous for its red wines, especially Merlot, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The region’s Bordeaux-style blends are well-regarded for their complexity and depth.
White Wines: The region also produces excellent white wines, including Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. Hawke’s Bay Chardonnays are often noted for their rich, full-bodied flavors.
Other Varieties: The region also grows Pinot Noir and Riesling, though these are less dominant compared to the reds and Chardonnays.
Wine Sub-Regions
Gimblett Gravels: Known for its unique soil and excellent drainage, this sub-region is famous for its red blends and is a major contributor to the high quality of Hawke’s Bay wines.
Te Mata Estate: One of the oldest and most prominent wineries in the region, known for its high-quality wines and beautiful estate.
Bridge Pa Triangle: Another key area, recognized for its unique soil composition that contributes to the distinctive character of the wines.
Climate and Soil
Hawke’s Bay benefits from a range of microclimates and soils, which allow for the cultivation of various grape varieties. The region’s well-drained soils, combined with its warm temperatures, help produce grapes with rich flavors and balanced acidity.
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Guillemot-Michel Vire-Clesse Charleston is made from 100 percent Chardonnay.
This cuvée is produced from hundred-year old vines that the great-grandfather planted after he returned from World War I. The family wanted to honor his memory and vinify these vines the same way he did, in old demi-muids.
Charleston is a deep and complex wine that gently express itself in the glass, offering juicy white fruit flavors and a lengthy finish.
Charleston is vinified and aged for one year in demi-muids of over 10 years old. During the following harvest, the wine is racked and placed in vats for another 6 months of aging before bottling.
Fish in white sauce, poultry in creamy sauce, hard cheeses.
Review:
The 2020 Viré-Clessé Charleston is the most structured, concentrated wine in the range, mingling notions of crisp orchard and stone fruit with scents of clear honey, white flowers, beeswax and mint in an inviting bouquet. Medium to full-bodied ample and satiny, it's layered and multidimensional, with impressive depth at the core, racy acids and chalky grip. Derived from the Guillemot family's oldest parcel of vines (dating back to 1918), it's built to age.
-Wine Advocate 94 Points
Cristom Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard 2023 is made from 100% Pinot Noir.
Cristom Vineyards was founded in 1992 by the Gerrie family in the Eola-Amity Hills of Oregon's Willamette Valley, farming their east-facing volcanic hillside biodynamically and organically. Their single-vineyard Pinot Noirs, each named for a woman in the family, are Willamette benchmarks.
Eileen Vineyard sits at the very top of the Cristom estate, its windswept upper blocks looking west to the Van Duzer Corridor, the ocean gap that draws cooling afternoon air into the valley. It is the estate's most structured and age-worthy site — dark-fruited, mineral and taut — from a warm but even 2023 Willamette vintage.
Review:
A deeper ruby/magenta color, the 2023 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard was aged in 48% new French oak. It offers layered depth in its notes of black raspberries, cherries, orange peel, baking spice, strawberry preserves, violets, mossy earth, and fresh leather. From the highest elevation site at 800 feet, and as Daniel Estrin describes it “born from the wind,” it has floral lift, with concentrated richness and a relatively full-bodied frame. Mouthwatering and stunning now, it will drink well over the next 20 years.
- Jeb Dunnuck 96 Points
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