Gewürztraminer 2019

Blackenbrook

Gewürztraminer 2019

Enjoy this creamy-textured Gewürztraminer with a ripe, melt-in-your-mouth Camembert, dried figs and Nelson walnuts - simply delicious.  But hurry, we're down to the last three cases...

 

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Tasting Notes

Our off-dry Gewürztraminer 2019 offers classic rose petal and spice aromatics. It is generously flavoursome and textural, with an elegant freshness and a long satisfying finish.

Read Winemaker’s Notes
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.
A bottle of Blackenbrook Gewurztraminer next to a glass half full of white wine and a white vase with one purple flower standing on a white surface. The background is white, too.

Reviews

5 Stars Yvonne Lorkin, yvonnelorkin.com

This Gewurztraminer unleashes a lahar of luscious stonefruit succulence and tropical taste sensations on the nose and palate, alongside a sprinkling of ginger, white pepper and nashi niceness. Crisp, textural and deliciously dry on the finish, it wraps itself around anything tandoori terrifically.


92/100 Cameron Douglas MS, camdouglasms.com

Exotic, varietal, fruity and pure in expression. Aromas of white peach and red apple, roses and a melange of fruit perfumes and sweet spices. Luscious, fresh, spicy and varietal on the palate with precise and engaging fruit flavours, citrus juice and flowers. A soft silky texture with contrasting acidity and lengthy dry finish. A lovely example from a great vintage, balanced and well made.

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.

Owner and Marketing Manager Ursula Schwarzenbach standing in front of a pallet of Blackenbrook wine cartons. She is smiling, wearing a bright red top and beautiful necklace.

The season

The weather gods were on our side, giving us an exceptional growing season.

With ample spring rain the vineyard was off to a strong start and quickly grew a vibrant green canopy, the powerhouse producing the energy for the new crop.

Grapevines are wind-pollinators and the dry and sunny December was perfect for a good, even fruit set.

From January right into harvest a heat wave and drought gripped Nelson Tasman. Luckily our un-irrigated vines have deep roots and managed to find sufficient water deep down in the gravelly clay soils. They thrived in the challenging conditions and gave us a beautiful crop with outstanding colour and flavours. Harvest kicked off on 8 March, the earliest we’ve seen it at Blackenbrook’s ever.