The Winery Ghost Hawk of North Island

Winery Ghost Hawk - Wairarapa Pinot Noir
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is ranked in the top 4197 of the estates of North Island.
It is located in North Island

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

Top Winery Ghost Hawk wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Ghost Hawk

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ghost Hawk

How Winery Ghost Hawk wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of kig ar farz breton, osso bucco milanese or rabbit with mushrooms.

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

  • Pinot Noir

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Ghost Hawk

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 Ghost Hawk.

Discover the grape variety: Gros Verdot

Girondine most certainly like the Petit Verdot. It is almost no longer present in the vineyard, no longer multiplied and therefore very clearly on the way to extinction.

News about Winery Ghost Hawk and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Chair

Characteristic of a wine that gives an impression of fullness and density in the mouth, without any roughness.