Journal - From the Vineyard & Cellar

The most expensive decision we make - Ageing Our Wines

The most expensive decision we make - Ageing Our Wines

There is a quiet moment after every vintage when a decision has to be made. Release the wine - or wait. For some, that decision comes quickly. Tank...
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What’s really in your wine? A closer look at winemaking additions.

What’s really in your wine? A closer look at winemaking additions.

Most consumers don’t realise just how much goes into the wines they enjoy today. Across most famous varieties, modern winemaking too often relies on additives and technical interventions to shape aroma, flavour, texture, balance, and stability, yet this world behind the label is rarely discussed.

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Innovative but Natural winemaking

Innovative but Natural winemaking

  There are no shortcuts when it comes to quality.  Since the end of the nineties and as one of the first, Hans applied pre-fermentation skin ...
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Vintage 2024

Vintage 2024

As the anticipation of Vintage hums in the distance (around mid-March), we swing open the vineyard gates to welcome all wine enthusiasts! Immerse ...
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Winery - Crafting Excellence with Care and Consciousness.

Winery - Crafting Excellence with Care and Consciousness.

Crafting Excellence with Care and Consciousness. In the heart of the spring buzz, our beloved winery hums with the energy of transformation. While...
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Winery Talk - All geared up for Vintage 2023

Winery Talk - All geared up for Vintage 2023

  During vintage, it will be difficulty to bottle, label or dispatch any major orders as the winery will be full of open fermenters and space and ...
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Press Release - Release of 'Grandezza'

Press Release - Release of 'Grandezza'

Hans Herzog Estate releases New Zealand’s first ‘Super-Tuscan’ inspired Blend! ‘Tuscan inspired. Marlborough born’ Hans Herzog Estate, one of the ...
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Wine Talk - Under the Marlborough sun - 'Grandezza 2019'

Wine Talk - Under the Marlborough sun - 'Grandezza 2019'

Back in the Swiss nineties, we couldn’t get enough of the opulent super Tuscan’s which differed so much from the mostly mass-produced Chianti, a ...
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Hans in winery bottling Grandezza

Winery - What's happening? Pre harvest, Grandezza and Vermentino

Priority is in the vineyard to finish all the tasks before the arduous work of netting. Then there will be a short respite letting the grapes ripe...
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Winery - What's happening? Spring 2021 update

Winery - What's happening? Spring 2021 update

Springs means priority is in the vineyard which is the most hectic and labour intense time of the year from budburst to fruit set, canopy manag...
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Beyond Montepulciano

Beyond Montepulciano

25-year old Montepulciano vine 12/04/21 Do Italian varieties from Marlborough equal to their native ‘cousins’? “Many Italian grapes grow well on ...
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Winery - what’s happening? Racking and bottling...

Winery - what’s happening? Racking and bottling...

With the vineyard demanding my full attention, only the rainy days are for winery work. All wines from 2020 vintage have now finished natural malol...
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