The Winery Hawkshead of Central Otago of South Island

Winery Hawkshead
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 100 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Central Otago in the region of South Island

The Winery Hawkshead is one of the world's great estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Central Otago to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Hawkshead wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Hawkshead

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Hawkshead

How Winery Hawkshead wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of baeckeoffe, veal with cream and mushrooms or duck breast in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Hawkshead

On the nose the red wine of Winery Hawkshead. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or earthy and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Hawkshead. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Hawkshead

  • 2010With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Central Otago

The world's southernmost vineyard, jewel of New Zealand Pinot Noir. Intense, deep reds with signature notes of black cherry, ripe plum, violet, wild thyme and sweet spices, velvety tannins and a freshness kept taut by cold nights — a fleshy, sun-soaked style. Also ample Pinot Gris (pear, honey), dry and off-dry Riesling with lively citrus, precise Chardonnay. Vineyards between 200-450 m on schist soils, continental climate.

Sub-zones: Bannockburn, Gibbston.

The top white wines of Winery Hawkshead

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Hawkshead

How Winery Hawkshead wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of turkey stuffed with chestnuts, express chicken skewers with spices or pork tenderloin with apples and raw cider.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Hawkshead

On the nose the white wine of Winery Hawkshead. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or floral. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Hawkshead. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Hawkshead

  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.64/5

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

  • Pinot Gris
  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.

The top pink wines of Winery Hawkshead

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Hawkshead

How Winery Hawkshead wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of vital tone / vitello tonnato (italy), traditional flemish carbonades or duck aiguillettes with basalmic.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Hawkshead

  • 0With an average score of 4.20/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Young

A very relative term that can designate a wine of the year that is already at its optimum, as well as a wine that has passed its first year but has not yet developed all its qualities.

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Discover the grape variety: Riesling

Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.