The Winery Cockle Bay of Marlborough of South Island

Winery Cockle Bay
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of South Island.
It is located in Marlborough in the region of South Island

The Winery Cockle Bay is one of the best wineries to follow in Marlborough.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Marlborough to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cockle Bay wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Cockle Bay

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cockle Bay

How Winery Cockle Bay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of stewed beef heart, dafina or wild rabbit with cider.

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Marlborough

The wine region of Marlborough is located in the region of South Island of New Zealand. We currently count 1237 estates and châteaux in the of Marlborough, producing 3419 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Marlborough go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top white wines of Winery Cockle Bay

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cockle Bay

How Winery Cockle Bay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of quenelles in nantua sauce, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or goat's cheese and pea tart.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cockle Bay

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Winery Cockle Bay and wines from the region

Edmond de Rothschild Heritage purchases Central Otago winery Akarua

The deal includes 34.5ha under vine in the heart of the mountainous Bannockburn sub-region. It is mainly planted with Pinot Noir, but there are pockets of Chardonnay and Riesling too. Sir Clifford Skeggs, a Kiwi businesmman, and Lady Marie Skeggs purchased the land for Akarua in 1995, and planting began the following year. The first wines were bottled from the 1999 vintage. Akarua is now firmly established as one of the largest family-owned operations in Central Otago, and its 100% estate-grown ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Amber

(1) A colour close to amber, sometimes taken on by white wines aged for a long time, or by oxidising prematurely. (2) A term used on the label to designate white Rivesaltes aged for at least thirty months in an oxidizing environment.