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Mud House Wines now operating as New Zealand Vineyard Estates
Mud House Wines, owner of a number of different well-known wine brands including Mud House and Waipara Hills, is now operating under a new name - New Zealand Vineyard Estates.
The change comes from redefining MH Wine Group’s two core businesses: New Zealand Wineries (NZW) which provides winemaking services and facilities for premium branded wine businesses; and New Zealand Vineyard Estates which owns several vineyards and wine brands.
Please download the pdf to read the full press release.
NZ Summer of Riesling
http://www.summerofriesling.co.nz/
The Summer of Riesling is a worldwide movement which encourages the consumption, discussion and enjoyment of Riesling. It’s about having fun, enjoying great wine and not taking ourselves too seriously. Watch out for tshirts, wicked wine lists, lane way parties and tattoos!
The second New Zealand Summer of Riesling happens from the 1st December 2012 to 28th February 2013.
The Summer of Riesling began in 2008 when Paul Grieco from the Terroir Wine Bar in New York decided that only Riesling would be offered by the glass as the white wine pour. And so began the revolution......
The NZ Summer of Riesling is sponsored by NZ’s best Riesling producers and delivered to you by some of the most exciting establishments in the country.
Become a foot soldier, choose Riesling. Viva la Revolution!
Mud House Wine Group Appoints New Group Winemaker
The Mud House Wine Group is excited to announce the appointment of Ben Glover to role of Group Winemaker, overseeing all the company’s wines, including wines in the Mud House and Waipara Hills ranges.
CEO MJ Loza described the appointment as a significant step forward in continuing to develop Mud House Wine Group into a company recognised not just for outstanding wine quality, but also as an industry-leading, New Zealand owned wine business.
Ben Glover joins Mud House Wine Group from Lion New Zealand where he held the role of Director of Winemaking and Chief Winemaker of Wither Hills Vineyards. Ben is also a highly respected senior wine judge and Wine Marlborough board member. “We are thrilled to have someone with Ben’s winemaking expertise, commercial acumen and industry profile join the team” said Loza. Ben will be responsible for leading an experienced winemaking team including Mud House winemakers Nadine Worley and Hayden Oliver and Waipara Hills winemaker Simon McGeorge. He will work with company and grower vineyards in Marlborough, Waipara Valley and Central Otago.
Ben joins his brother Jack at Mud House Wine Group. Jack, who is responsible for Sales and Marketing across the company’s portfolio, says that having the opportunity to work at a senior level in a forward thinking business like Mud House with his brother is a fantastic opportunity. Top priority after vintage 2013 will be getting together with brother Ben to leverage Mud House’s status as Official Wine Supplier to Emirates Team New Zealand as they compete for the America’s Cup from next July in San Francisco.
Fiona Beckett - Latest UK Review
We were pleased to see a fantastic review from Fiona Beckett of Matching Food & Wine, another huge fan of our 2011 Waipara Hills Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
"I have to confess I’m not nuts about New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc but I’m obviously in a minority and if you are you’ll find this is much classier than most SBs that are on offer around the £6-7 mark. Great with zippy, full-flavoured salads and seafood like garlicky prawns."
Fiona Beckett, 1 November 2011 www.matchingfoodandwine.com/
Waipara Hills Equinox wins Winestate Pinot Gris of the Year
Waipara Hills is delighted to announce that our 2011 Waipara Hills Equinox Pinot Gris was last night awarded the “Winestate Magazine Wineshield Trophy Pinot Gris/Grigio of the Year 2012”. Our winemaker Simon McGeorge collected the trophy and is pictured here with Peter Simic, the owner and Editor of Winestate Magazine. The magazine evaluated more than 1,000 Pinot Gris at several tasting panels across New Zealand and Australia.
Please download the full press release here to read more about this significant accolade.
Waipara Valley Update - August 2012
In spite of the coolest summer we have experienced in nearly 20 years in New Zealand, we have harvested some beautiful fruit due to the fantastic autumn. Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris fruit looked and tasted particularly splendid.
It was a very condensed harvest for us not starting until after Easter and most of the picking concentrated over the last two weeks of April, first week of May. The last of the Riesling was not done until the 27 of May by which time we had already started the pruning.
Just halfway through the winter months and we have progressed well with our pruning. In addition to our fulltime staff, we have around 40 casual pruning staff. A real mix of nationalities and languages in the vineyard! Chillean,Uruguan,French,English,German,Chinese and Kiwi!
June was very cold, recorded -13 at The Mound one morning which was another first! Grape vines in their dormant, winter state will cope with up to – 16, the pruning staff complain about the frosty mornings (think of them with frozen fingers trying to tie Sauvignon Blanc canes to a frosty wire.) but love the sunny days that follow.
90% of our vineyard is cane pruned to 2,3 or 4 canes depending on age and fruit destination, the remainder is spur pruned including our older block of own root Pinot Gris from whence comes our reserve Pinot Gris.
Jean-Luc Dufour, Waipara Valley Vineyard Manager
Central Otago Update - Golden Terraces Vineyard, August 2012
Pruning began 1st week of June. We adopted a slight change to past seasons with “crew” numbers which resulted in a smaller precise crew being employed – 7 people in total. This seemed a huge task as we have 91ha to prune but the rationale behind it was to allow the crew to have continuous work through to end of September (or thereabouts), along with the major fact that the supervision of this small crew would result in the job being conducted nearly to 100% of expectation.
Weather at this time of the year always has a huge impact on productivity & morale – past seasons have been recorded where we have periods of up to three weeks with no visual vitamin “D” – the sun!! Well no surprise but early July delivered the norm. For seven days our average daily temperature was negative 2 degrees Celsius!!! Tough going for the crew!! However, since then we have now had a truly spectacular run of great sunny weather, cold frosty starts, but day temperature rising to the mid “teens” – quite surreal. Some days we have seen a temperature difference of 14-15 degrees. The vineyard turns into a “clothesline” – three layers of warm winter clothes become removed to one as the day warms with the layers being “hung” on the wires in each person’s row. One has to remember where your clothes are as retrieval by end of day is a necessity – the three layers will be needed for the start of “tomorrow”
Productivity is on schedule, we should complete our cane pruned portion of the vineyard by 3rd week of August [58ha] with the 33ha of spur pruned area to complete the season. Tractor mulching of the pruning’s is an annual task – one that is only conducted once the crew have completed a sizable area.
Central Otago has a “unique” rabbit problem, this year being no exception – quite the reverse. Regional Council conducted a “count” of rabbit numbers & our local area, Bendigo, was instructed that a poisoned 1080 carrot drop would be requirement – cost to the relevant land owners. Two dummy carrot drops are done a week apart with the third being the poisoned carrot. This drop was done at the start of the month (see photo). The weather is imperative, which delivered. The following day, the rabbit numbers was the difference between night & day – great result for all. The poisoned carrots are applied by aircraft, efficient way of covering a large area of undulating terrain.
Ducan Cramp, Central Otago Vineyard Manager
Marlborough Update - The Woolshed Vineyard, August 2012
The later than normal harvest was followed by a big frost on the 25th April and we were able to start pruning straight after harvest. This allowed us to get all the major cuts completed and utilize theKlima Stripper to its maximum and get the whole Woolshed block stripped before sending machine to Waipara to strip out down there.
The month of May was dry and 17 frosts were recorded. Temperatures were down to as low as -5 degrees Celsius on three or more occasions. These cold mornings resulted in some beautiful Marlborough Sunny days. June was very wet with 182mm rain recorded on the block.
As of the 3rd August the whole block has been wrapped down ready for the new growing season.
Marlborough has experienced some flooding with the vineyard not escaping either; we have had a lot of water flowing through the block as you can see in this photo. Let’s hope the next couple of months produce a warmer and dryer spring.
Nev Gane, Vineyard Manager
Mud House Single Vineyard Wines - A Range Worth Finding
Fancy a walk on the wine side? Whether you're looking for an aromatic Pinot Gris, elegantly oaked Chardonnay or fruity Sauvignon Blanc, embrace bold, exciting flavours with Mud House Single Vineyard Wines - a range that is truly worth finding.
Created exclusively for the Mud House Single Vineyard range, the inspired new wine releases include the 2011 Mud House Taggart Vineyard Pinot Gris; 2011 Mud House Hungry Hill Chardonnay and the 2011 Mud House Neal Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc.
With an inherent sense of place that stems from small parcels of grapes carefully selected by the Mud House viticulture and winemaking team, the Mud House Single Vineyard Range boasts vitality, flavour and individuality.
Please download the attachement to read the full press release.
NZ Wine Finds Favour in Asia
Mud House has once again been recognised internationally - receiving accolades fro four of its top vintage wines at the Wine & Spirits Asia, Singapore Expo.
The 2011 Mud House Sauvignon Blanc and the 2010 Mud House Riesling were both awarded Silver at the expo - while the 2010 Mud House Pinot Noir was awarded Bronze.
For more informaiton please read the full press release here:
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