Puriri Hills will be a featured wine at Burger Bach, a new New Zealand themed restaurant group started this month with its first location in Carytown, Richmond, Virginia. Burger Bach will offer the natural beef, lamb, and mussels of New Zealand, along with our wines, in a casual gastro-pub setting.
January in the Vineyard
January 15, 2012
Belated holiday greetings from Puriri Hills. We spent Christmas in shaky Christchurch, where we experienced the latest round of 5-6 strength earthquakes. Then back to the vineyard for family visits…hence the lateness of this message.
The vineyard is pristine, despite a very rainy December. Flowering spread over a long period, with cabernet franc quite early and carmenere and cab sav quite late. Fruit set was quite good. The sheep have done the leaf plucking. Fruit thinning is next, now that bunch closure is upon us. It has been a cloudy wet La Nina year, and we are ready for some summer warmth and dry weather. Netting will follow veraison…sometime in February. Vintage is likely to spread over the whole of April since fruit set was so disparate.
We hope to ship our 08′s to the US and Australia in the next few months, so that everyone can try this fabulous vintage.
Puriri Hills 2008′s Released in New Zealand
December 17, 2011
The big day is finally here! We are releasing our long awaited 2008′s in New Zealand. Email Judy for international or domestic price and ordering information.
These are the wines that Bob Campbell MW rated 95 to 98 points (www.bobswinereviews.com).
Michael Cooper describes Puriri Hills Estate 2008, in his Buyers Guide to New Zealand Wines 2012, as “[deep and youthful in colour, it is full-bodied, with a spicy bouquet and an array of blackcurrant, plum, herb, spice and nut flavours, showing excellent depth and complexity. Fresh, vibrant and firm, it should be long-lived… 4 1/2 stars“. He describes the Puriri Hills Reserve 2008: “Invitingly fragrant, with strong, beautifully ripe blackcurrant, plum, herb and spice flavours, seasoned with nutty oak, it is a complex, very fresh and youthful wine with a seductively silky texture. It should flourish with bottle-age…5 stars“. As for our second Pope, Puriri Hills Pope 2008: “Deeply coloured, it is mouthfilling, fresh and supple, with substantial body and deep, lush blackcurrant, herb, spice and nut flavours, framed by fine, silky tannins. Showing lovely richness and texture, it’s already approachable …5 stars.”
