The Winery Elephant Hill is one of the world's great estates. It offers 42 wines for sale in of Hawke's Bay to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Elephant Hill wines in Hawke's Bay among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Elephant Hill 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 Elephant Hill wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Elephant Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, roasted stuffed goose with mushroom sauce or roast pheasant.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Elephant Hill. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or earthy and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, tobacco or forest floor. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Elephant Hill. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Reference for great New Zealand reds, warm maritime climate (2,200 h of sun). Bordeaux blends on Gimblett Gravels: round, fruity Merlot (plum, ripe cherry), firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar), perfumed Cabernet Franc. Signature northern-Rhône-style Syrah: peppery and floral (violet, blackberry, black olive), fine tannins. Structured, mineral Chardonnay.
Also Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. 4,600 ha around Napier-Hastings.
How Winery Elephant Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, wild salmon with verbena steam or quiche without eggs.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Elephant Hill. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Elephant Hill. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Full-bodied, exotic whites, rich and heady, with moderate acidity, showing opulent aromas of lychee, rose, mango, ginger, pink grapefruit and gentle spice. Made as aromatic dry, moelleux late-harvest and liquorous sélection de grains nobles. Star of Alsace AOC (one of the four noble varieties) and signature of Alto Adige (Tramin), Palatinate and Germany. A pink mutation of Traminer.
How Winery Elephant Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of tuna gratin, yellow risotto with mussels or chantilly cream.
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Elephant Hill. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit.
It can last for several years. The bottles are stacked in the cellars and waited for the light and heat. The yeasts gradually give the wine compounds that enrich it. A long maturation is a guarantee of quality.
How Winery Elephant Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of delicious bourguignon, leg of lamb in butterfly (barbecue) or whiskey paupiettes.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Elephant Hill. often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, citrus fruit.
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.
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Deep, velvety reds with an intense purple colour, showing aromas of blackberry, black plum, violet, cocoa and gentle spice. Round tannins, fleshy palate, peppery length. Star of Cahors AOC (Côt, Auxerrois) in France and the absolute signature of Mendoza, Argentina (Uco Valley, Luján de Cuyo). A French South-West variety that became the Argentine emblem after its post-phylloxera decline.
