The Winery Ake Ake of North Island

Winery Ake Ake - Chambourcin
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 1403 of the estates of North Island.
It is located in North Island

The Winery Ake Ake is one of the best wineries to follow in North Island.. It offers 26 wines for sale in of North Island to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ake Ake wines

Looking for the best Winery Ake Ake wines in North Island among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Ake Ake wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Ake Ake wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Ake Ake

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ake Ake

How Winery Ake Ake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison), spicy food or beef such as recipes of duck with vanilla (reunion island), royal couscous or german recipe for marinated meat: sauerbraten.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Ake Ake

On the nose the red wine of Winery Ake Ake. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Ake Ake. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Ake Ake

  • 2016With an average score of 3.71/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Ake Ake.

  • Chambourcin
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinotage
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of North Island

New-zealand/north-island/northland">Northland, as its name suggests, is New Zealand's northernmost wine-producing region, around four hours' drive northwest of the country's largest city, Auckland. Most of the Northland region's wineries are situated on the east coast, particularly around the Bay of Islands and the Karikari Pensinula, with another cluster on the west coast near Kaitaia. The region's red wines are mostly produced from Syrah, Pinotage">Pinotage and the Hybrid variety Chambourcin. Chardonnay leads the way for white wine grape varieties; Pinot Gris, Viognier and Sauvignon Blanc are among the other varieties cultivated here.

Although Northland's contribution to the New Zealand wine industry is minuscule (in 2013, the region crushed 130 metric tonnes of grapes, compared to Marlborough's 250,000), it is important historically. The first vines were planted in the Bay of Islands in 1819, a Full 30 years before missionaries began planting in the Hawkes Bay. The founding father of viticulture in the Antipodes, James Busby, had a Vineyard at his house at Waitangi before going on to establish the Hunter Valley wine region in Australia. This Waitangi property is also where New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was signed in 1840.

In the late 1800s, kauri-gum diggers from Croatia began to move into the area in search of fortune, bringing winemaking traditions from their homeland. While viticulture in the region has never been viable on a large scale, Northland's boutique wine industry is growing fast, with the Northland Wine Growers Association (formed in 2007) boasting a membership of more than 50. Northland's sub-tropical Climate is unique in New Zealand. Warm, humid summers and rainy winters are challenging for growers, who must employ careful vineyard techniques to avoid mildew and rot.

The top white wines of Winery Ake Ake

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Ake Ake

How Winery Ake Ake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of ham and cheese omelette, salmon and spinach lasagna or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Ake Ake

On the nose the white wine of Winery Ake Ake. often reveals types of flavors of oak, tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ake Ake. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Ake Ake.

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Flora
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Pinot Gris
  • Albariño

Discover the grape variety: Pinotage

An intraspecific cross between pinot noir and cinsaut called hermitage, obtained in South Africa in 1925 by Professor Abraham Izak Perold. Since then, it has been propagated in Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United States (California), Canada, Brazil, Israel, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties on the A1 list. - Synonymy: none to date (for all the synonyms of the varieties, click here!).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Ake Ake

Planning a wine route in the of North Island? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Ake Ake.

Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Ake Ake and wines from the region

Sebastian Payne MW retires from The Wine Society

Having joined The Wine Society’s team in 1973 as promotions manager, Payne became the head buyer in 1985. He stepped down from this position in 2012, when Tim Sykes took over, but has remained on the buying team ever since. As part of his responsibilities, Payne has bought in every region throughout the years but, in recent years, focused mainly on Italy and Bordeaux. He was also instrumental in introducing wines from Eastern Europe and Greece to the portfolio. The Wine Society described Payne’s ...

Annona Dodoo secures Decanter 360 Academy trainee role

We launched the Decanter 360 Academy to help increase diversity and inclusivity within the wine trade. DWWA judge Mags Janjo of BAME Wine Professionals urged Annona to apply after she expressed a desire to work in the industry. ‘I searched Google to see if there were any Black British owned wine companies, and unfortunately the results weren’t very high yielding,’ she said. ‘I love wine and wondered if I could be a part of the industry.’ She was inspired by the McBride sisters – who launched the ...

Master Sommelier Larry Stone explains why he sold Lingua Franca to Constellation Brands

Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...

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