The Winery Tuatara Bay of Marlborough of South Island

Winery Tuatara Bay
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Marlborough Valley Wines.
It is ranked in the top 580 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Marlborough in the region of South Island

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

Top Winery Tuatara Bay wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Tuatara Bay

How Winery Tuatara Bay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of basque chicken with chorizo, english tuna croque-monsieur or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

On the nose the white wine of Winery Tuatara Bay. often reveals types of flavors of oak, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Tuatara Bay. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Marlborough

World reference for Sauvignon Blanc: aromatic, exuberant whites with signature notes of passion fruit, gooseberry, grapefruit and cut grass, sharp lively acidity and an iodised finish. King grape on 71% of the vineyard since 1972. Also fine, silky Pinot Noir (cherry, plum, spice), taut Chardonnay and lively Riesling. Traditional-method sparklers on the rise.

28,000 ha in the northeast of the South Island, sunny oceanic climate, stony soils.

The top red wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Tuatara Bay

How Winery Tuatara Bay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of quick and easy monkfish tail, breaded veal cutlets or adapted vietnamese fondue.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

On the nose the red wine of Winery Tuatara Bay. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Tuatara Bay. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Tuatara Bay

  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
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  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

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.

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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.