The Winery Pukeora Estate of North Island

Winery Pukeora Estate - Ruahine Range Central Hawkes Bay Limestone Hills Pinot Noir
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 1548 of the estates of North Island.
It is located in North Island

The Winery Pukeora Estate is one of the best wineries to follow in North Island.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of North Island to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Pukeora Estate wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Pukeora Estate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Pukeora Estate

How Winery Pukeora Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with dark beer, sauté of veal with tomato or mixed paella valenciana.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Pukeora Estate

On the nose the red wine of Winery Pukeora Estate. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Pukeora Estate

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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.

The top white wines of Winery Pukeora Estate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Pukeora Estate

How Winery Pukeora Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of english breakfast, raw salmon marinade with vinegars or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Pukeora Estate

On the nose the white wine of Winery Pukeora Estate. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak.

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Pukeora Estate

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 Pukeora Estate.

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.

News about Winery Pukeora Estate and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Local wine

Table wine, but with the origin indicated. It corresponds to a particular legislation: the freedom to use grape varieties is greater than for the AOC, but the quality criteria such as the approval tastings can sometimes be more demanding. The legislation is still evolving, but for the moment there are three levels: regional (e.g. Vin de Pays d'Oc), departmental and local (e.g. Côtes de Thongue).