The Desert Heart Estate of Central Otago of South Island

Desert Heart Estate
The winery offers 15 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 192 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Central Otago in the region of South Island

The Desert Heart Estate is one of the best wineries to follow in Central Otago.. It offers 15 wines for sale in of Central Otago to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Desert Heart Estate wines

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

The top red wines of Desert Heart Estate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Desert Heart Estate

How Desert Heart Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of traditional flemish carbonades, oven-baked veal cutlets or duck legs with green olives.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Desert Heart Estate

On the nose the red wine of Desert Heart Estate. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Desert Heart Estate. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Desert Heart Estate

  • 2012With an average score of 4.33/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 0With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Desert Heart Estate.

  • 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 Desert Heart Estate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Desert Heart Estate

How Desert Heart Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tartiflette, mackerel in white wine or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Desert Heart Estate

On the nose the white wine of Desert Heart Estate. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak. In the mouth the white wine of Desert Heart Estate. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Desert Heart Estate

  • 0With an average score of 3.73/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Desert Heart Estate.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Gris

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 Desert Heart Estate

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Desert Heart Estate

How Desert Heart Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Desert Heart Estate

  • 0With an average score of 3.50/5

The word of the wine: Caudalie

Unit of measurement corresponding to one second and allowing to quantify the aromatic persistence of a wine in mouth (length in mouth).

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Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.