Wednesday, June 20, 2012
11:26
New Zealand Wine: Amisfield Wine Company Produces Rare Vintage From Unique Central Otago Vines
(drinks media wire) – Internationally-renowned Amisfield Wine Company has expelled a singular Reserve Pinot Noir to coincide with a new 10th anniversary harvest.
The winemakers have introduced a Amisfield RKV Reserve Pinot Noir 2007 – a third selected from a tiny territory of vines on Amisfield’s 75ha Pisa Estate between Cromwell and Wanaka in Central Otago.
The Reserve Pinot Noir comes from grapes grown on a Rocky Knoll – a small, north-facing slope with really gaunt soil, definition a vines have to send their roots low and far-reaching. The soils are loessial in start though are many comparison than a alluvial sediments on a hollow floor.
“It has taken a lot of coaxing to get a vines to puncture low looking for water. The low flood and water-holding ability safeguard that a vines planted on these soils grow solemnly and a vineyard organisation contingency delicately sight and conduct a vines on Rocky Knoll so that when a grapes arrive during a winery they are of a top quality.” Amisfield winemaker Dr Stephanie Lambert says.
“2007 was a overwhelming year for Pinot Noir in Central Otago. The deteriorate was cold with countless frosts. It was a year that a iceberg was seen floating off a seashore of Otago. Hence a stand was tiny though a grapes clever with flavour, joined with good acidity.” Dr Lambert says.
Matured in French ash barriques, a RKV 2007 was bottled unfined and unfiltered in normal Burgundy bottles in late 2008 for a routine of healthy excellence and balance.
“This booze is really special to us as it represents a best booze of an well-developed selected though also what we trust is a best countenance of grapes and booze grown during a Pisa Estate.” Dr Lambert says.
The RKV 2007 has already perceived accolades by one of a many inclusive general booze magazines, Wine Spectator. Senior editor James Laube called it a “standout” wine.
To applaud a recover of a Amisfield RKV Reserve Pinot Noir 2007, new cook de cuisine during Amisfield’s Lake Hayes bistro, Jay Sherwood, has currently launched a “Trust a Chef” Pinot Noir winter menu.
The five-course menu includes internal anniversary furnish with uninformed Bluff oysters, venison, and Cardrona lamb, to be matched with a preference of Amisfield’s distinguished Pinot Noirs and Arcadia Brut NV.
At 27, Sherwood has already worked during 3 general Michelin star restaurants – during Melisse in his hometown of Los Angeles, in Spain underneath acclaimed three-star cook Martin Berasategui and in Italy, operative underneath “The Godfather” Tonino Cannavacciuolo in a Michelin dual star grill Villa Crespi.
Amisfield is also celebrating being listed on Cuisine magazine’s Top 50 finalists in a 2012 New Zealand Restaurant of a Year. Awards will be hold in Auckland on Aug 6. Cuisine announced a list on Wednesday.
In March, Amisfield also noted a poignant miracle with a tenth collect after a initial vines were planted in 1999. Whilst still a comparatively immature winemaking company, Amisfield has turn a clever tellurian brand.
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