The Winery Riverlore of South Island

Winery Riverlore
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 633 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in South Island

The Winery Riverlore is one of the best wineries to follow in South Island.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of South Island to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Riverlore wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Riverlore

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Riverlore

How Winery Riverlore wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef kidney, paupiettes à la mérignicaise or roast pheasant.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Riverlore

On the nose the red wine of Winery Riverlore. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, raspberry or cranberry and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, red currant or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Riverlore. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Riverlore

  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of South Island

Central Otago, near the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, vies for the title of world's most southerly wine region. Vineyards cling to the sides of mountains and high above river gorges in this dramatic landscape. Pinot Noir has proven itself in this challenging Terroir, and takes up nearly three-quarters of the region's vineyard area. The typical Central Otago Pinot Noir is intense and deeply colored, with flavors of doris plum, Sweet spice and bramble.

Two Paddocks, owned by actor Sam Neill, had thought the Last Chance vineyard was the world's most southerly (at 45°15'). But several major Patagonian projects are underway at around 45 to 46°, and Argentina can currently claim the honor for Alejandro Bulgheroni's new vineyard at Sarmiento (45°60'). The viticultural zone covers the mountainous area around the tourist resort town of Queenstown on the eastern side of the Southern Alps. The exact boundaries and sub-regional divisions are not official, but a geographic indication is in the pipeline.

Wineries are scattered around several distinct sub-regions: Gibbston, Alexandra, Wanaka and the Cromwell Basin, itself home to Bendigo, Bannockburn and Lowburn. Lakes Dunstan, Wakatipu and Wanaka all contribute to the terroir as well, along with the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers. Gold brought the first settlers to the region in the 1860s, and most of the towns in this Part of Otago have a Rich gold-mining history. The first vines were planted during this time by a French migrant but, unlike in the Sierra Foothills region of California where the European settlers provided a steady demand for wines, the tough, transient Otago miners had no interest in drinking wine, preferring beer and spirits.

The top white wines of Winery Riverlore

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Riverlore

How Winery Riverlore wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of sauerkraut of the sea in casserole, quiche lorraine or bruschette (large toasted bread).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Riverlore

On the nose the white wine of Winery Riverlore. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, honey or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, tree fruit or vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Riverlore. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Riverlore

  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Pinot Gris

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Riverlore

Planning a wine route in the of South Island? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Riverlore.

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 Riverlore and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Nomad winemaker: Why I make wine in Spain

When I started my nomadic winemaking project, in 2018 at Niepoort Vinhos in Portugal’s Douro region, I had no idea how large a part Spain would go on to play – I certainly never intended to make it the locus of my project. So how did it happen? Yes, there was an element of chance and taking opportunities where they arose. But also, among the talented winemakers to whom I pitched collaborations, I sensed an openness and a readiness to collaborate which seemed particular to Spain. Held in June las ...

A groundbreaking Dram

Ardbeg single malt whisky, based on the southern shores of Scotland’s island of Islay, has recently unveiled Fon Fhòid: the latest in a number of highly unusual experiments. Back in 2014, the distillery team lead by whisky creator, Dr Bill Lumsden and former distillery manager, Mickey Heads (now retired) took the highly unusual approach of burying two already matured casks of Ardbeg underneath the peat bogs themselves, (burning peat smoke is normally used to dry the malted barley during producti ...

The word of the wine: Smoked white

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