Visiting Toast Martinborough 2007

Like every year, after our german harvest, summer vineyard work starts over here in New Zealand.

And what great occasion to start my New Zealand summer with a visit to Toast Martinborough.

Toast Martinborough Wine, Food & Music Festival is “the” event for the Wairarapa Region.

10,000 tickets were sold out within 20 minutes of release. I’m glad Beaven had organised some for us.

The combination of culinary highlights from the region’s finest restaurants, wonderful live entertainment and of course sampling the wines from the participating vineyards, makes this event a real highlight.

2007 Toast Martinborough

The participating vineyards were:

Ata Rangi

Te Kairanga

Alana Estate

Tirohana Estate

Craggy Range

Margrain Vineyard

Winslow

Muirlea Rise

Martinborough Vineyard & Burnt Spur

Palliser

2007 Toast Martinborugh - What a load of people

The most interesting aspect is this special very soft New Zealand Style Pinot Noir.

Having our desired traditional Burgundian style in mind, these wines are absolutely new world style – Upfront fruit, full bodied, very soft, smooth and pleasent.

Pinot in its youth needs some grip and slightly drying tannins, an ideal combination with food.

This is our aim to combine the traditional Burgundian vinification and style with the unique fruit of high quality New Zealand Pinot Noir.

We are now already looking forward to our own regional pre Harvest Festival, next to the Ruamahange River under beautiful old Totara trees, just a few hundred meters north of our vineyard.