WELCOME TO KAIMIRA WINES
In this website we aim to share with you some insights into the way we operate and the wines we make. We produce two styles of wine: Kaimira Estate and Brightside. Both are made by us from grapes grown locally in vineyards we either own or manage.
LATEST NEWS
GOLD MEDAL AT THE NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL WINE SHOW!
In September we were awarded a gold medal for our Kaimira Estate Iti Selection Riesling 2011 at the New Zealand International Wine Show. We are very pleased with the result, especially since we have only started making this style of Riesling in 2010, and that vintage also won a gold medal (at the Royal Easter Show). The wine is crafted to be lower in alcohol, is medium sweet which makes it ideal as an apéritif or a lunch time wine. It looks like Sally got it spot on in her vintage assessment!
LOOKING FORWARD TO 2112
The vines are all showing healthy vigour helped by ideal growing conditions throughout Spring. The long range weather forecast is for a hot dry summer, so fingers crossed for some great wines in the making. One new addition we hope to add to our lineup will be Pinot Blanc made in a dry European style.
Looking further ahead, we have planted a small area of Albarino to see how this variety performs in Nelson. It produces wines that go very well with seafood and could therefore be a perfect partner for our local cuisine.
carboNZero NEWS
We have further cemented our commitment to measuring and managing our greenhouse gas emissions by having our past year's practices audited. We can confirm that to produce each 150 ml glass of our wine involves 112 grams of carbon emissions - which we offset by investing in wind power. We are continually working to minimise this and have recently introduced light weight burgundy bottles across our range of wines which will give us a welcome reduction in GHG emmission. Meantime we continue to search for other opportunities to achieve similar outcomes in all aspects of our operations.
TWO SILVER MEDALS AND OTHER RECENT ACCOLADES
We are thrilled to have won silver medals for our Kaimira Estate Brightwater Chardonnay 2008 and our Brightside Pinot Noir 2010. Our Brightside Pinot Noir has one two silver and one gold medal in the past three years, showing there is consistency in quality for this sub $20 Pinot.
Master of Wine Bob Campbell has been raving about our Kaimira Estate Brightwater Gewurztraminer 2009 in the April/May issue of the Gourmet Wine Traveller Magazine. He scored this wine 91/100 and gave the following review "Big, ripe gewurztraminer in an Alsace-like style with sumptuous, luscious fruit and pronounced spiciness. I suspect that a small amount of bortrytis is adding an extra dimension of honeyed complexity to the wine. The developed anise and clove influence suggests that the grapes may have been exposed to an extender ripening period. This is a serious wine in a moderately sweet style that shows impeccable balance and a lingering finish.".
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