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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
This seamless, polished Merlot is a product of careful viticulture, a favourable vintage and impeccable winemaking. Plum and berry fruit flavours with a suggestion of wild herbs, new leather and classy, spicy oak. Good now but even better in a year or two. - Bob Campbell
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
( It used to be called red rock ) Always a consisent wine made at Craggy Range and from Gimblett Grave fruit. Its mostly merlot with a seasoning of Malbec to round it off. The warmth of their vineyard and stony soils help produce very ripe grapes, especially in 2007 which had superb conditions, make this wine an absolute pearler. "Boldly fruity Hawke's Bay red with deep colour, substantial body and rich blackcurrant, plum and spice flavours. Excellent quaffer, fleshy and sweet-fruited, with slightly chocolatey notes and a seductively smooth finish." M.Cooper
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Craggys flagship extremely limited chardonnay. Its the pebbles in its Gimblett Gravels vineyard that give this wine its name- and character. There are no reviews for this yet but last years scored a massive 92/100 from Parker and this promisies to be better "Medium straw colour streaked with silver hues. Aromatically complex with citrus blossom, lemon zest, peach and baguette crust. This wine is tightly woven with taut acidity providing a tensile line through the palate which allows the complex flavours to unfold slowly. Summer fruits, cashew and faint vanilla spring to mind."
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Craggy Range's vineyard is in the heart of famous Gimblett Gravels Winegrowing District of Hawkes Bay. The climate is significantly warmer than most surrounding districts, particularly at night, meaning the vineyard is more temperate climate than classically cool. "A combination of lemon, nectarine, acacia flowers and flint provides a subtle yet complex aroma. ... medium weight, steely acidity and fresh fruit flavours. It has great persistence which releases waves of high note floral complexity on the finish."
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Blue-Gold Award and Top 100 status at the Sydney International Wine Competition 2010 ang Gold at the Liquorland Top 100. Impressive results for a pinot noir at this price but its understandable when Craggy Range make this Martinborough pinot noir. The name 'Strugglers Flat' was given to the flat infertile land at the bottom of the more fertile hills and were given to the returning serviceman from the war. They had the last laugh however as this is perfect land for growing grapes. "It is bright ruby, mouthfilling and sweet fruited, with cherryish, slightly nutty flavours, finely blanced and smooth." M.Cooper. Good value pinot.
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
The 2009 Sauvignon from Craggy Range's consistently excellent Avery Vineyard is now on special.Richard and Linda Avery's site is located in the famous stony soils of the old Omaka River bed, in the heart of Marlborough's Wairau Valley."... .dry Sauvignon Blanc with a pure and mineral first impression that opens to reveal subtle herb, capsicum and gooseberry characters on the finish. Delicately aromatic with a suggestion of currant bud on the nose." Bob Campbell.
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
This is Craggy Range's more restrained 'chablis styled 'chardonnay. The vineyard is at Te Awanga, in the Hawkes Bay, right on the coastline. The shallow warm clay loam soils and careful selection of clones in this environment allows the development of very pure cool Chardonnay flavours in the grapes. "The fresh sea breezes at Te Awanga have helped create a Chardonnay that treads lightly over the palate, seamlessly balanced and deceptively complex. Chardonnay-loving gannets will be all over it." Cuisine. Terrific buying for a quality product from Craggy Range
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Wild Rock is a subsidary of Craggy Range and as such the wine receives all the care and attention that the Craggy Range wines do. "Dark and fragrant with spice, this wine is rich and interesting. Succulent berry fruit of good depth is underpinned by a savoury tannic backbone. Serve it with slow cooked lambshanks.
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Craggy's top limited release Pinot Noir from their Martinborough fruit. Tiny, tiny quantities are made from their best fruit and 2008 was a cracker in Martinborough. "Deep plumy red in colour. The aromatics reveal black cherry, bark, plum, dark spices and truffle with a hint of old, dark red rose petal. Rich, yet not heavy, the palate is densely wound and brooding with fine acidity and a core of quality suede like tannin. Flavours of dark berry fruit, ripe plums, fresh dug earth, spice, coffee, hints of
fennel and liquorice unfurl on the palate. The wine
finishes with length and grace. A wine of engagement rather than ebullience." Will cellar up to 10 years from vintage.
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Craggy Range Vineyards, Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Museum stock just released ( very limited ) especially for Caro's. What a pleasure to get aged wine straight from Craggys cellars which means it is in mint condition. Massive, massive reviews means this is not to be missed. A beauty for Christmas. 94 Points (5 stars) from Bob Campbell who writes
"A blend of the very best merlot (92 per cent), cabernet franc (7 per cent) and cabernet sauvignon (1 per cent) grown in Craggy Range's Gimblett Gravels vineyards. Big, dense red with strong dark berry, licorice, dried spice and classy oak flavours. Although the tannins are firm and the flavours to some extent impenetrable, the wine promises to reward anyone with sufficient willpower to keep it for up to a decade, possibly more." Also 5 Stars Cuisine and 92/100 from Robert Parkers Wine Advocate. A one off not to be missed.
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