Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

Well, today is a wonderful day in the short life of Hawks Nest Vineyard. We finally have our bottles of Orchard Block Red in retail stores here in Nashville!!! It sure took a lot longer than I ever imagined. Anyway, it is now out there on offer as a friend just emailed to say he took a bottle home and has just "sampled" it. (it is just after 5 PM on Fri. so it definitely is time for libations)

Sandra and I are really glad that the wine is finally on the retail shelves before we go back to NZ for the next 10 weeks. I am sure that our paultry 80 cases will be all gone by the time we return to Nashville the end of June. At that time I will bring back barrel samples of our 05 vintage to share with the brain trust at Lipmans that will be almost ready to bottle. Our wine maker wants to keep our wine in barrels for 16 months this year to get the best flavors out of those expensive new French oak barrels that I bought last year. Thus we will bottle in late September.
So this is all for now from Nashville. Next week I will be back on the job in Matakana and will give you a catch up on our upcoming 06 harvest. The weather is holding clear and dry at our vineyard so we are on the home stretch for our harvest.

Happy Spring drinking!!!

DR JIm