The Winery Fossil Ridge of Nelson of South Island

Winery Fossil Ridge - Chardonnay Nelson
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 248 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Nelson in the region of South Island

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

Top Winery Fossil Ridge wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Fossil Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fossil Ridge

How Winery Fossil Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of rougail sausage, cod and potato gratin or zucchini quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Fossil Ridge

On the nose the white wine of Winery Fossil Ridge. often reveals types of flavors of oak.

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

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Nelson

The wine region of Nelson is located in the region of South Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Latitude 41 or the Domaine Seifried Estate produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Nelson are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Nelson often reveals types of flavors of dark fruit, clove or baking spice and sometimes also flavors of bramble, kiwi or savory.

In the mouth of Nelson is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 94 estates and châteaux in the of Nelson, producing 406 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Nelson go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fossil Ridge

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

Discover the grape variety: Sultanine

Most certainly finding its first origins in Persia, today Iran. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1. Note that the variety gora chirine, also finding its first origins in Iran (Azerbaijan), is a mutation of the Sultanine, its berries of white or pink color being slightly larger.

News about Winery Fossil Ridge and wines from the region

Third batch of Diageo’s Prima & Ultima collection revealed

Prima & Ultima – meaning ‘first and last’ – showcases whiskies that are exactly that: either the first or the last of their kind. The eight single malts in this year’s line-up were chosen by Diageo master blender Dr Craig Wilson, following in the footsteps of previous Prima & Ultima creators Maureen Robinson and Dr Jim Beveridge OBE. The whiskies include the final Brora bottling from 1981, and spirit from the last two casks of Port Ellen filled in 1980, as well as single malts from Royal ...

Wine lover: The climate needs you!

Kimberly Nicholas PhD (@KA_Nicholas) is a sustainability scientist at Lund University, and author of Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World  Our 2020 research found that how fast we succeed at stopping warming will determine how much of the wine-growing regions and their characteristic varieties we love will remain in our lifetimes.  Changing to warmer-climate varieties can help limit losses, but there are limits to adaptation.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ...

Best organic and biodynamic spirits: 10 to try

With climate change becoming an increasingly serious topic for the spirits industry to tackle, so too comes a greater level of awareness amongst consumers that brands should be doing more in relation to the environmental footprints they leave behind globally. Every element, from the cultivation of raw materials, to the composition and distribution of finished glass bottles is now under tighter scrutiny. This year’s Earth Day, a celebration of climate awareness, held on 22 April (founded back in ...

The word of the wine: Reassembly

During the vinification process, a "cap" is formed at the top of the vats with the solid parts (skin, pulp, pips, etc.), which contain tannins and colouring elements. Pumping over consists of emptying the vat from the bottom and pouring the juice back to the top, in order to mix the cap and the juice and to favour the exchange and the extraction. This old technique allows a better exchange between the solid parts and the liquid.