Wines By Villa Maria

Villa Maria Cellar Selection Pinot Gris 2011

Marlborough

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Villa Maria selects clones of Pinot Gris that produce lower yields with smaller bunches, which translates into more concentrated flavours. The viticulturists spend a great deal of time monitoring and adjusting the crop levels to make sure the vines are carrying the right amount of grapes. Low yields of two to three kgs per vine, timely leaf plucking and canopy management activities concentrate the flavours in the grapes. Although this leads to a smaller harvest, the emphasis is placed on quality not quantity, culminating in a fully opulent Pinot Gris wine.

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Close attention is paid to vine health and fruit development, crop loading and fruit exposure. Components of Pinot Gris grapes, most of it picked by hand, are gently pressed to make a pure concentrated juice, lightly settled for twelve hours and transferred to a mix of fermenters and old oak barriques. Neutral yeasts and cool tank fermentation techniques are employed to preserve the natural purity of fruit. Warmer barrel ferments by indigenous yeasts add complexity. Upon completion, parcels are kept on yeast lees for three months while being treated to a weekly battonage, building palate texture and richness. This wine is then assembled, lightly fined and filtered to bottle.

Straw yellow peach colour. Perfumed aromas of pineapple and ripe pear with hints of gentle spice. Engaging sweet floral characters everywhere, from the fine silky entrance to the luxuriantly creamy mid palate, a rich and warm appealing new world style. A luscious mouthful of fruit showing generous baked apple and cinnamon characters, followed by a lively, rich and harmonious finish. Pair with lightly spiced Asian cuisine or fresh summer salad with crab.

Villa Maria Cellar Selection Sauvignon Blanc 2011

Marlborough

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From fruit grown to vineyards in the Awatere and Wairau Valleys, closely managed to ensure ripe and clean fruit. The most pristine grapes have been secured for the estate's Cellar Selection, the harvesting carried out with inscrutable timing to capture the juicy flavours. Timely canopy management activities such as shoot thinning and leaf plucking along with an attention to vine health optimise the opportunity for ideal vineyard flavours and clean, ripe bunches at harvest. A fresh, fruit driven Sauvignon Blanc with lithe passion, kiwi and citrus flavours on the palate.

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Vineyards are harvested at optimum flavour ripeness and processed separately to provide options for the final assemblage. Some parcels are treated to a course of skin contact which enhances intensity of flavour. Components are gently pressed, cold settled and racked. Cool fermentation temperatures are employed to retain purity of flavour and preserve aromatics. Upon completion the batches remain on yeast lees for several months building mouthfeel, texture and complexity. Wines are then racked and assembled, gently fined, filtered and immediately bottled, capturing freshness, richness and purity of flavour. Alcohol 13.0%

Vibrant, light straw colour. A beautifully intense and lively wine, overflowing with aromas of ripe gooseberry, melon and passionfruit with hints of grapefruit, nettles and lime. A pure expression of Marlborough, mouthfilling and juicy with vibrant fruit, fantastic mid palate richness and weight of fruit, finishing rich and racy with a crisp line of acidity and excellent length. A match to salmon, green beans and potato salad.

Villa Maria Private Bin Chardonnay

Hawkes Bay

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The Keltern vineyard provided the majority of the fruit for this wine. Keltern is located east of the Maraekakaho region and is a warm inland site buffered by the Ngaruroro River. This vineyard is managed meticulously to ensure that healthy ripe fruit is obtained. Other contributing vineyards included parcels from the Gimblett Gravels grapegrowing area. The 2005 Hawkes Bay vintage was characterised by some extreme weather conditions. Warm temperatures and significant rainfalls were followed by a long, dry autumn and harvest.

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The fruit was harvested in the cool of the morning, crushed and gently pressed. To ensure a soft and intensely flavoured wine the pressings were separated. The juice was fermented cool to retain aroma vibrancy and with occasional yeast lees stirring and some malolactic fermentation enriched the palate. To provide additionally complexity approximately 20% of this wine was fermented in new French barriques. After 6 months on yeast lees the wine was then blended, filtered and bottled. Alcohol: 14.0%

A light gold, pale straw colour interlaced with rich hues of soft sunflower. Ripe tropical fruits, peach and stone-fruit aroma's dominate the bouquet. There is a good nose of buttery leaves and nuances of grassy meadows. The fresh and fruity bouquet is balanced out by a soft but textured palate. There are flavours of sweet apple, honeyed almond and hot toasty waffle. A creamy texture and dominant finish make this Chardy a chosen match with panned fried chicken breast, Caesar salads and creamy pasta dishes.

Villa Maria Private Bin Merlot 2010

Hawkes Bay

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Completely bio organically grown Merlot, from vines on the Villa Maria estate Joseph Soler property at the outskirts of the eminent Gimblett Gravels precinct of Hawkes Bay. The vineyard has operated on organic principles since 2001 and Joseph Soler has over twenty hectares now certified as organic by BioGro New Zealand. Rather than relying on herbicides or pesticides, vines are managed with a focus on enhancing soil health and growing healthy, balanced grapes. Yields are kept limited to realize a quality of fruit that's concentrated with ripe natural sugars.

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A minimalistic approach is employed throughout the winemaking process to complement what has been painstakingly achieved in the vineyard. Merlot grapes are destemmed and crushed into fermentation vessels. Fruit is pumped over and plunged several times daily for optimal extraction rich of colour, flavour and and just the right amount of gentle, soft tannins. Following the press and completion of malolactic, a component is transferred to oak for twelve months maturation in seasoned French and American barriques. Free range organic egg whites were used to naturally soften the wineùs tannins prior to filtration into bottle. Alcohol 13.5%

Deep crimson hue. The nose offers lifted ripe fruit aromas of blood plums and bramble along with dark chocolate oak. Vibrant red plum and berry fruits over subtle spice and cedar undertones. An abundance of dark fruit are paired with fine grained tannins to give a generous and rounded mouthfeel of great intensity and persistence. The full, textured palate and soft tannins make Villa Maria an excellent food wine.

Villa Maria Private Bin Sauvignon Blanc 2012

Marlborough

Villa Maria possess the magic touch with Sauvignon Blanc, regularly clearing international wine events of prestigious trophies. Private Bin has been included in the Decanter Top 50 Best Wine Under £10 and identified as a Decanter favourite. Villa Maria retains Sauvignon Blanc vineyards of moderate yields and idyllic growing conditions, climes that permit the fruit to be harvested in prime condition at the zenith of flavour development and balance. Flavours of gooseberry, lime and melon are all present, alongside a crisp and racy acidity.

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Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from good vineyards in the Wairau and Awatere Valleys. The range of mesoclimates provides a spectrum of flavour profiles and affords the opportunity to maintain continuity of style. The majority of sites are trained to vertical shoot position, special care is taken to maintain vine health, clean fruit and balance. Parcels are harvested over several weeks at varying levels of ripeness. Fruit is crushed, pressed and cold settled before being racked clean off lees for vinification. Neutral and aromatic yeast strains are employed to inoculate the clear juice. Fermentations are conducted at cooler temperatures, to retain delicate flavour and preserve aromatics.

Light straw hue. Bursting with a fruit salad bowl of scents, ripe gooseberry, passionfruit, fresh citrus lime and exotic herbaceous aromas. An exciting palate offering layers of juicy flavours, intensity and fullness, finishing with a refreshing crisp, clean and racy acidity. A well balanced and invigorating wine, food matches are aplenty, but ideally to be served chilled with shellfish, your favourite chicken recipe or runny cheese.

Its relative youthfulness not withstanding, the New Zealand based Villa Maria Group is establishing a reputation as one of the great wine companies of the world

Founded in 1961 and still operated by George Fistonich, Villa Maria has been New Zealand's leading wine award winner, both nationally and internationally since the early 1980's. Villa Maria's talented people have an unrelenting passion to produce quality wines.

Realising that it takes more than just good winemaking to produce quality, a passion to succeed begins in the vineyard. Astute site selection by Villa Maria's vineyard experts, is followed by superior vineyard management and then complemented by expert winemaking. A strong focus on continually improving the vineyards is considered by Villa Maria to be an incredibly important factor in quality winemaking.

Vineyards have the highest of priority for Villa Maria whose team really does live and breathe the philosophy that it all starts in the vineyard. The grapes produced must be superb quality, as this is the essence of good winemaking. Villa Maria owns vineyards and sources grapes from contract growers from some of the best sites in three of New Zealand's leading grape growing regions; Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne.

Villa Maria Estate has two state-of-art wineries in New Zealand. The largest is the new Auckland Winery and Vineyard Park. The Marlborough winery is based in one of New Zealand's premium grape-growing regions. The winery now crushes Villa Maria's Marlborough harvest from its vineyards and contract growers throughout the region. A new winery in Auckland was essential for Villa Maria to meet the increased domestic and export demand for wines and it has been designed to allow for long-term growth. Villa Maria also has 20 hectares of vines at the Auckland Winery site.

As well as managing the company and publicly owned vineyard sites, Villa Maria's winemaking team work closely with contract growers. Villa Maria has a team of 80 dedicated contract growers in Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and Marlborough who grow grapes under the close guidance of the company’s vineyard experts. Villa Maria's viticulturists, based in all three regions, have one focus - to consistently deliver quality fruit that is physiologically ready, to the winemakers.

Villa Maria was named as one of the world's 50 great wine producers by Wine Spectator. Named New Zealand Wine Company of the Year at Australia's Winestate Wine Awards for the sixth time in seven years. New Zealand Wine Producer of the Year and Best Sauvignon Blanc Trophy - 2004 International Wine and Spirit Competitions in the United Kingdom. Trophy for the Most Successful Exhibitor at the 2004 New Zealand Wine Society Royal Easter Show for the third time in four years and winemaker Alastair Maling MW, collecting the Gold Medal for Champion Winemaker of the Show. This is the third time in four years Villa Maria winemakers have won the award. George Fistonich was also short listed as one of 50 prominent figures in the wine industry by UK Wine International Magazine, named New Zealander of the year by the prestigious National Business Review, and in the top ten New Zealanders by daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald.

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Villa Maria pioneered the development of specialist publicly owned vineyard companies in New Zealand with the setting up of Seddon and Terra Vitae Vineyards. Both companies own vineyards, which Villa Maria is contracted both to manage and source grapes from. Seddon was the first ever public vineyard company in New Zealand. Terra Vitae owns vineyards in Hawke's Bay and Marlborough. Many of the estate's Hawkes Bay red grape varietals are planted in company owned and managed vineyards in the area known as Gimblett Gravels. Now regarded as an appellation in its own right, Gimblett Gravels represents 34 wineries and winegrowers, including Villa Maria Estate. The area, which takes in the Gimblett Road, is defined both by location and by soil type. Vineyards in the Gimblett Gravels area have already produced numerous award winning red wines for Villa Maria.

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