The Winery The Idealist of Canterbury of South Island

Winery The Idealist
The winery offers 5 different wines
3.3
Note - 1Note - 1Note - 1Note - 0Note - 0
Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 648 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Canterbury in the region of South Island

The Winery The Idealist is one of the best wineries to follow in Canterbury.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Canterbury to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery The Idealist wines

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

The top white wines of Winery The Idealist

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery The Idealist

How Winery The Idealist wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of fish and seafood gratin, ham and comté quiche or endives of the sea.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Canterbury

The wine region of Canterbury is located in the region of South Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bell Hill or the Domaine Pyramid Valley Vineyards produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Canterbury are Pinot noir, Riesling and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Canterbury often reveals types of flavors of cherry, lemon zest or lime and sometimes also flavors of apricot, ginger or lemon.

In the mouth of Canterbury is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 43 estates and châteaux in the of Canterbury, producing 98 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Canterbury go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery The Idealist

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

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet-Mitos

An intraspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Dyer du Cher obtained in 1970 in Weinsberg, Germany. It can be found in Germany, Switzerland, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

News about Winery The Idealist and wines from the region

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

NZ winery uses terroir ‘fingerprint’ to verify fine wine origin

North Canterbury-based Pyramid Valley has formed a partnership with fellow New Zealand firm Oritain, which specialises in proving the origin of different products, and said the group’s ability to ‘fingerprint’ vineyard terroir offers a way to guarantee the provenance of its fine wines. Both partners suggested the system could contribute to preventing fine wine fraud more generally, but it’s early days. Wines in Pyramid Valley’s 2020-vintage Botanicals Collection, featuring Pinot Noir and Chardon ...

Manhattan property developer turned New Zealand winemaker jailed for tax fraud

Colin David Rath, 59, pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and 39 counts of dishonestly using tax returns at Christchurch District Court. He was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for conducting the NZ$1.3 million tax fraud. Rath grew up in Connecticut and worked as a property developer in New York before leaving the United States in 2016. He wrote a book called It is What it is: A True Manhattan Real Estate Nightmare with a Silver Lining, which delves into the New York prope ...

The word of the wine: Lemonade maker

Corkscrew of the wine waiter equipped with a small blade allowing to cut the capsule, a worm and a system of rack allowing to extract the cork easily.