Wine from Craggy Range
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Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2020
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Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2020
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Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2020 is a New Zealand red wine from Martinborough, grown at the Te Muna Road Vineyard. Within the Craggy Range portfolio, Aroha sits in the Prestige Collection and is made from selected Pinot Noir parcels on the estate-owned vineyard. The name Aroha means love in te reo Mori, a fitting name for a wine built around careful parcel selection and a strong sense of place.
The fruit comes from higher, older terraces with a narrow layer of clay over stony soils. For the 2020 release, the Pinot Noir vines were more than twenty years old. The season began wet up to Christmas, followed by a dry and warm ripening period, with all grapes hand-picked between 20 and 24 March.
In the cellar, Craggy Range used 70% whole bunches and 30% destemmed (…)Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2021
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Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2021
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Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir 2021 is a dry red wine from Martinborough, New Zealand, grown in the Te Muna Road Vineyard. As part of Craggy Range's Prestige Collection, Aroha is built around selected Pinot Noir parcels from the estate, with a clear focus on tannin quality, length and a measured balance between power and refinement.
The 2021 vintage gained its concentration from low yields. A cold, wet spring reduced the crop, followed by a warm summer that pushed ripening forward. The fruit was entirely hand-harvested, drawn from carefully chosen Pinot Noir blocks, including sites with a narrow layer of clay over stony soils.
In the winery, the detail continues: 32% whole bunches, indigenous yeasts, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks and French oak (…)Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2020
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Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2020
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Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2020 is a red wine from Hawke's Bay in New Zealand, more precisely from Gimblett Gravels. The name Le Sol means the soil, and that meaning matters here: the wine comes from the stoniest parcels of Craggy Range's own Gimblett Gravels Estate.
Made from 100% Syrah, the 2020 vintage was hand-harvested in April after a warm, dry season. Craggy Range used indigenous yeasts, a significant proportion of whole bunches, and 17 months of maturation in French oak barriques, part of them new. The result is a Syrah shaped by fruit depth, savoury spice and the firm, stony structure associated with its origin.
At Drankenshop Broekmans, this is the kind of bottle we like to place in front of customers who are curious about serious New Zealand Syrah. (…)Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2021
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Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2021
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Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 2021 is a red wine from Hawke's Bay in New Zealand, grown in the Gimblett Gravels vineyard. The name Le Sol means the soil, and in this case that detail matters: the Syrah comes from especially stony parcels, where free-draining gravels absorb warmth during the day and help the grapes ripen.
The 2021 vintage gave Craggy Range a very warm spring, a mild summer, few rainy days and low yields. The wine is made from 100% hand-harvested Syrah, fermented with indigenous yeasts, with part whole-bunch and part destemmed fruit. It then spent 17 months in French and Austrian oak barriques and puncheons, with a measured proportion of new oak.
At Drankenshop Broekmans, this is the kind of bottle we like to point out when someone wants to see how (…)
