The Winery Ashwood Estate of Gisborne of North Island

Winery Ashwood Estate - Chardonnay
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 39 of the estates of North Island.
It is located in Gisborne in the region of North Island

The Winery Ashwood Estate is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Gisborne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ashwood Estate wines

Looking for the best Winery Ashwood Estate wines in Gisborne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Ashwood Estate 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 Ashwood Estate wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Ashwood Estate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Ashwood Estate

How Winery Ashwood Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of boeuf en daube, grilled sardine fillets or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Ashwood Estate

On the nose the white wine of Winery Ashwood Estate. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ashwood Estate. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Ashwood Estate

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Gris

Discovering the wine region of Gisborne

The wine region of Gisborne is located in the region of North Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vinoptima or the Domaine Millton produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Gisborne are Chardonnay, Pinot gris and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Gisborne often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, earth or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, oak or non oak.

In the mouth of Gisborne is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 89 estates and châteaux in the of Gisborne, producing 232 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Gisborne go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Ashwood Estate

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

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Ashwood Estate and wines from the region

A silent story

Being notably peated, the inaugural chapter emerged in 2020, followed by Chapter Two in 2021, finished in a first fill Port pipe and refill Bourbon cask. The concluding sixth chapter is reserved for release in 2025, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Old Midleton site, which operated from 1825 to 1975. ‘When it’s gone, it’s gone, which is sad in some ways, breaking the link to the old distillery,’ said Kevin O’Gorman, the Master Distiller and head of maturation of the ...

Laggan Bay whisky distillery to open on Islay

Plans have been approved for what will become Islay’s 12th Scotch malt whisky distillery. Laggan Bay is set to be developed by whisky bottlers and brewers The Islay Boys, in association with Ian Macleod Distillers. Argyll and Bute Council has granted planning permission for the distillery, which The Islay Boys said will produce ‘a traditional, double-distillation Islay whisky’, at Glenegedale in Laggan Bay, close to the island’s airport. The new development, on a two-hectare site, will also incl ...

American whiskey becomes most valuable auction sale of its kind

The Sotheby’s New York sale of Bourbon and Rye Whiskey, held at the weekend, combined two significant collections of American whiskey, with almost 100% of lots sold and 75% of them selling for above their pre-sale high estimates. The top spot for the most expensive lot in the auction went to a bottle of LeNell’s Red Hook Rye 24 Year Old Barrell #4, which sold for $43,750, double its pre-sale high estimate and making it the joint most valuable bottle of rye whiskey ever sold at auction. The sum w ...

The word of the wine: Extraction

All the methods (pumping over, punching down) that allow the colour and tannins to be extracted from the grape skin during maceration, before fermentation begins. It is also possible to macerate after fermentation, but gently, so as not to extract the tannins from the seeds, which are greener. Because of its solvent power, alcohol favours extraction.