Wines By Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay Hawkes Merlot 2011

Hawkes Bay

Enjoying a temperate maritime climate, Oyster Bay's Hawkes Bay vines are warmed by strong clear sunlight during the day and cooled at night by the sea breezes of the Pacific Ocean. This is the idyllic environment for Merlot to grow it's vibrant, fully ripened varietal flavours. Oyster Bay is about elegance and intensity of fruit, the hero is always the freshness, sweet spice and soft tannins on the palate. The glorious ripeness provides a burst of rich juicy black plum flavours, whilst a touch of subtle oak contributes lifted spice, softness and extra warmth.

$1799each

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Grapes are destemmed, crushed and macerated for three days. The must is inoculated with cultured yeast for vinification in a combination of barrels and fermenters for up to twelve days. Bordeaux barriques by renowned coopers Taransaud, Saury, Seguin Moreau and Demptos, air seasoned for a minimum of three years, impart complexity. Tailored rackings and pump overs are employed to obtain delicate fruit tannins and maximise flavour and colour extraction. Following a gentle pressing, the wine completes malolactic in a mixture of tank and French oak barriques. A component is barrel aged for six months to add softness and complexity. The assembled wine is treated to a gentle egg white fining.

Purple/ red colour. Ripe bouquets of generous red and black berry fruit with a hint of dark plum and a touch of briar. Well integrated smoky and slightly spicy oak melds with the fruit, a final touch of vanillin to the well rounded finish. The impeccable use of oak has imparted subtle, toasty, smoky characters, spicy complexity and structural tannin for enhanced mouthfeel and concentration. A delicious Merlot wine, finishing with sweet berry fruits and aromatic spice, fine grained tannins and lingering silken textures. Soft, beautifully balanced and simply quite gluggable.

Oyster Bay Marlborough Chardonnay 2011

Marlborough

Available by the case dozen only

Oyster Bay truly captures the unique character of Marlborough Chardonnay with pure, incisive, ripe fruit flavours. A combination of barrel and tank fermentation and the stirring of yeast lees achieves maximum softness, integration and texture. Clonal influences in the vineyard are very important, providing smaller berries and enhanced flavour intensity. The result of all of this is a delicious Chardonnay wine with concentrated aromas and delicious flavours.

$1799each

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Grapes are destemmed and lightly pressed, the free run juices are cold settled to partial clarity, racked into fermentation tanks and inoculated with a pure yeast culture. A component of the ferment is transferred to new and one year old French oak barriques, treated to a slow temperature controlled fermentation at 15°C for several weeks. The barrique fermented portion is lees stirred on a fortnightly basis and matured for six months to achieve maximum softness and retention of varietal flavours. The tank fermented portion is held on yeast lees stirred, racked and prepared. Vinified without any malolactic, components are assembled and filtered prior to bottling. Alcohol 13.5%


A straw gold coloured wine. Exudes warm and fresh appealing tropical fruit and buttery oak aromas. On the palate, the wine fills the mouth with hot chunky French oak, ripe wet citrus, stonefruit, and sweet South Pacific pineapple. Flavours of Marlborough microclimate linger through as less dominant than the inherent fruit, the ripe sweetness is balanced by a perfect acidity.

Oyster Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012

Marlborough

A staple on fine wine lists everywhere, one of Marlborough's most palatable exponents, having claimed top gold at the Washington International Wines for Oysters Competition. The philosophy of Oyster Bay is to produce fine, distinctly New Zealand wines, elegant and assertive, laden with glorious fruit flavours. It all begins in the vineyard, each vine is treated as an individual. All that remains for the winemaking team is to preserve the expression of the vineyard and quality of fruit.

$1599each

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Throughout harvest, fruit is selected from progressively later ripening vineyard blocks, commencing with the stonier free draining sites. Grapes are destemmed and transferred to tank presses where the free run juices are separated, while the remaining fruit is lightly pressed. The juice is then cold settled to a clear state, racked into fermentation tanks and inoculated with a select range of yeasts for added complexity and aromaticness. Treated to a slow, temperature controlled fermentation at 12°C to 14°C for three weeks. After a short period of yeast lees contact, the wine was racked for final the assembly and bottled young to ensure the fresh, crisp and elegant varietal characters are retained.


Pale straw green colour with perfect clarity. Oyster Bay is zesty and aromatic with lots of lively, penetrating fruit characters. Hallmark flavour profiles of gooseberry, nettle and tropical fruit, a concentration of tropicality, an abundant bouquet, lively and finely textured, beset with lingering citrus notes, a wine that is always crisp, elegant and refreshing.

Oyster Bay Pinot Noir 2011

Marlborough

Available by the case dozen only

With each passing vintage, Oyster Bay work alongside more established Pinot Noir vines grown to smaller and smaller sites. Each unique block is harvested as a separate parcel and treated individually at each stage of the winemaking process. Burgundy clones which can provide ripe flavour and tannins, good colour and structure are selected. Clones 115,667,777 and Abel provide diversity of flavour and concentration, to be aged in a mix of Alliers, Jupilles and Troncais French oak, coopered by renowned artisans Dargaud & Jaegle, Francois Freres and Mercurey.

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Parcels of Pinot Noir are picked off choice vineyard blocks selected on the basis of their affinity, complexity and blending options. Grapes are destemmed and crushed directly into a combination of open and closed top fermenters. Following a period of maceration, the musts are inoculated with a range of pure yeast cultures. Open ferments are hand plunged up to three times daily, a small portion is run off to complete it's course in French oak. After twelve days macerations, components are pressed off into a selection of French barriques for completion of malolactic. Oyster Bay is then matured six months before, racking and the final assemblage. Alcohol 13.5%

Bright scarlet colour. Fragrant, aromatic cherry, bright red berry and juicy black plum. Seductive sweet fruit tannins provide structure and length, exuding cool climate finesse. The dark cherry and strawberry fruits which dominate the nose and palate, carry savouryness over a carriage of luxurious French oak and fine silky tannins. Elegant cool climate Pinot Noir at its best, enjoy Oyster Bay alongside duck, game or seared Atlantic salmon.

Oyster Bay Sparkling Cuvee Brut

Marlborough

The philosophy at Oyster Bay is to produce fine, distinctly regional wines that are elegant and assertive with glorious fruit flavours. Cuvée Brut is an exclusively Chardonnay sparkler in fragrant Blancs de blancs styling, crafted through the best of new world winemaking techniques to capture and showcase New Zealand's unique cool climate character. It all starts in the vineyard with select clones of Chardonnay characterised by small, intensely flavoured grapes. A rejuvenating wine with a clean, fresh palate, New Zealand at its sparkling best.

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Oyster Bay takes its name from the local bay at the tip of New Zealand's majestic South Island. Oyster Bay's reputation has been built from vines grown in Marlborough's central Wairau Valley and the North Island's salubrious Hawkes Bay region, both are now recognised as being among the great wine growing regions of the world. Chardonnay vines trained to yield fruit specifically for the vinification of sparkling wines are grown on ancient alluvial river terraces, producing grapes full of concentrated, pure varietal flavours along with a natural zesty acidity, ideal for the creation of super premium sparklers. Fruit is harvested early, crushed and inoculated with neutral yeasts to accentuate the Chardonnay varietal character.

A blonde coloured wine with a rich foam and a very fine, persistent bead. Fragrances of citrus and apple, stonefruits, melon and quince. Elegant cool climate varietal intensity on the palate, radiant lime, citrus and white peach, accentuated by a finely bubbled palate culminating in a crisp, refreshing finish. A wine of elegance, finesse and minerality. The lively bubbles are a result of natural secondary fermentation, which brings to life the delightful and refreshing expressions of a pure Chardonnay Cuvée Brut.

From its very first vintage, which won gold and the coveted Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc at the 22nd International Wine & Spirit Competition in London 1991, Oyster Bay has continued to define the very essence of Marlborough

Set in the alluvial heart of Marlborough, one of the world's most recognised wine-growing regions and a place as beautiful as it is abundant, you will find the vineyards that grew the reputation of Oyster Bay. Here, on the shallow stony soils of the tranquil Wairau Plains, where long, slow summers and cool autumn nights give birth to grapes of intense and fruity flavours, Oyster Bay began, from the very outset, to produce wines of international stature.

Described more recently by leading London wine writer, Giles Kime, as "pretty close to being the elusive stuff of dreams". Marlborough provides Oyster Bay with the perfect mix of sun and soil to produce wines of great character - distinctive, assertive, cool-climate chardonnays, sauvignon blancs and pinot noirs that define the very essence - and exclusivity - of New Zealand viticulture.

If Marlborough was the birthplace of Oyster Bay, then Hawkes Bay, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, is its second home. Here on silty, sun-drenched alluvial plains carved by ancient glaciers, Oyster Bay grows some of New Zealand's most elegant and exciting, cool-climate Merlots.

Oyster Bay takes its name from the local Oyster Bay on the tip of New Zealand's majestic South Island. Oyster Bay's reputation has been built from vines grown in Marlborough's central Wairau Valley now recognised as one of the great wine growing regions of the world. With its cool, sunny, maritime climate and its shallow, stony soils etched across great alluvial plains by ancient glaciers, Marlborough is described in Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas as "One of the greatest places on earth to grow vines, producing some of the world's most remarkable wines!"

Small wonder Oyster Bay has consistently won so many of the world's most-prestigious wine awards and the hearts of so many wine lovers from Sydney to Seattle, London to New York. Internationally-recognised for producing elegant, assertive wines with glorious fruit flavours, Oyster Bay is also a winemaker with great viticultural vision. It was Oyster Bay that had the foresight, over two decades ago, to recognise the enormous wine-growing potential that lay beneath the stony, alluvial soils of a marginal sheep farming district in New Zealand's Hawkes Bay.

Today Oyster Bay is producing some of New Zealand's finest varietal red wines. Not surprisingly, one of the most exciting of these is Oyster Bay's own Hawkes Bay Merlot, already being hailed as a worthy complement to a range of chardonnays, sauvignon blancs and pinot noirs that proudly carry the name - and growing international reputation - of Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay produce fine, distinctly regional wines, the benefits of moderating yields and a cool climate, are evidenced in the concentration of fruit. Great measure is taken to ensure the gentle crushing of the grapes, the juice is allowed to slowly cold settle, whilst a long, slow temperature controlled fermentation and immediate bottling, retains all the wonderful fruit flavours and aromas of the grapes.

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Everything that Oyster Bay ndeavours is directed to the end consumer. The passion at Oyster Bay is to share the unique attributes, quality and style of some New Zealand?s most sought-after, super-premium wines with those as passionate as the winemakers themselves. "Marlborough is such a damned good place to grow vines. In fact, I'll go further than that. It's one of the greatest places on earth to grow them, producing some of the world's most remarkable wines!" -Oz Clarke

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