The Winery French Peak of South Island

Winery French Peak - Chardonnay
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of South Island.
It is located in South Island

The Winery French Peak is one of the best wineries to follow in South Island.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of South Island to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery French Peak wines

Looking for the best Winery French Peak wines in South Island among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery French Peak 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 French Peak wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery French Peak

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery French Peak

How Winery French Peak wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pumpkin and bacon pie, sun burger or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery French Peak

In the mouth the red wine of Winery French Peak. is a with a nice freshness.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of South Island

Central Otago, near the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, vies for the title of world's most southerly wine region. Vineyards cling to the sides of mountains and high above river gorges in this dramatic landscape. Pinot Noir has proven itself in this challenging Terroir, and takes up nearly three-quarters of the region's vineyard area. The typical Central Otago Pinot Noir is intense and deeply colored, with flavors of doris plum, Sweet spice and bramble.

Two Paddocks, owned by actor Sam Neill, had thought the Last Chance vineyard was the world's most southerly (at 45°15'). But several major Patagonian projects are underway at around 45 to 46°, and Argentina can currently claim the honor for Alejandro Bulgheroni's new vineyard at Sarmiento (45°60'). The viticultural zone covers the mountainous area around the tourist resort town of Queenstown on the eastern side of the Southern Alps. The exact boundaries and sub-regional divisions are not official, but a geographic indication is in the pipeline.

Wineries are scattered around several distinct sub-regions: Gibbston, Alexandra, Wanaka and the Cromwell Basin, itself home to Bendigo, Bannockburn and Lowburn. Lakes Dunstan, Wakatipu and Wanaka all contribute to the terroir as well, along with the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers. Gold brought the first settlers to the region in the 1860s, and most of the towns in this Part of Otago have a Rich gold-mining history. The first vines were planted during this time by a French migrant but, unlike in the Sierra Foothills region of California where the European settlers provided a steady demand for wines, the tough, transient Otago miners had no interest in drinking wine, preferring beer and spirits.

The top white wines of Winery French Peak

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery French Peak

How Winery French Peak wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, chinese noodles with shrimp or baked eggs.

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

  • Pinot Grigio

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.

The top pink wines of Winery French Peak

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery French Peak

How Winery French Peak wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal with chestnut and pietra (corsican beer), pork roll with mustard or duck breast and roasted peaches.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery French Peak.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Turbidity

The state of a cloudy wine, due to the presence of colloidal suspensions that prevent the passage of light.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery French Peak

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

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 French Peak and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

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: Turbidity

The state of a cloudy wine, due to the presence of colloidal suspensions that prevent the passage of light.