The Winery Te Hera Estate of Martinborough of North Island

Winery Te Hera Estate - Ocean Child Riesling
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 73 of the estates of North Island.
It is located in Martinborough in the region of North Island

The Winery Te Hera Estate is one of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Martinborough to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Te Hera Estate wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Te Hera Estate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Te Hera Estate

How Winery Te Hera Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of rabbit with prunes, cuttlefish a la plancha or fideuà (spain).

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

  • Riesling

Discovering the wine region of Martinborough

The wine region of Martinborough is located in the region of Wairarapa of North Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Kusuda or the Domaine Craggy Range produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Martinborough are Pinot noir, Pinot gris and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Martinborough often reveals types of flavors of cherry, nutmeg or tomatoes and sometimes also flavors of dark chocolate, exotic spice or underbrush.

In the mouth of Martinborough is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 82 estates and châteaux in the of Martinborough, producing 331 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Martinborough go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Winery Te Hera Estate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Te Hera Estate

How Winery Te Hera Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef goulash, roasted stuffed goose with mushroom sauce or aiguillettes of duck with auvergne blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Te Hera Estate

On the nose the red wine of Winery Te Hera Estate. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or floral. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Te Hera Estate. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Te Hera Estate

  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Te Hera Estate

Planning a wine route in the of Martinborough? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Te Hera Estate.

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

News about Winery Te Hera Estate and wines from the region

Napa Valley’s Shafer Vineyards sold to Korean group Shinsegae

Shafer Vineyards has been sold to Shinsegae Property, a division of the wider Shinsegae Group, with interests in several business sectors, from retail to real estate. Shinsegae Property acquired the trailblazing Napa winery for 299.6 South Korean won ($250m), according to the Korea Herald newspaper. Further details about the deal were not disclosed, but the newspaper quoted a company official as saying the deal would benefit Shinsegae L&B, a wine and alcoholic drinks wholesale and importing ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

New Zealand’s Craggy Range joins La Place de Bordeaux

The estate, which comprises the Gimblett Gravels (Hawke’s Bay) and Te Muna Road (Martinborough) vineyards, will be represented at La Place by two of the oldest négociants, CVBG and Mähler-Besse, in both Europe and Asia. The 2020 vintage of Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah and Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir will join the ranks of some of the world’s most renowned wines. La Place ‘made sense’ for Craggy with the estate focused on expanding its distribution reach within the world of fine wine, ...

The word of the wine: Blanc de blancs (champagne)

Champagne made only from the Chardonnay grape. The expression has been somewhat overused by the intensive use made of it by certain large distributors of white table wines (or sparkling wines) who were thus seeking to promote their product.

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