A FOUR STAR RATING FOR OUR O6!!!!!!

Happy New Year to you all. As we start 2008 I have a nice announcement about or 05 Hawks Nest Orchard Block Red. Michael Cooper is New Zealand's number one wine writer. Each Year he publishes his annual review of New Zealand Vineyards and wines. His 2008 book has just been released in NZ and I have scanned the front and back of his book as well as the page where he rated us for the first time. He uses a scale for rating of 1 to 5 and does not give out many 4 and 5's. As you can see in the photos he has just given us a 4 start rating for our 05 Orchard Block!!!


WE are very excited to learn this and wanted to pass it on to all of you who have tasted our wine. I can't wait to get home to Matakana Valley and read his 08 edition to see who else in our valley got such a good rating. Last year only two wines in our entire valley got a four star rating so we feel we have finally "arrived" as far as showing the Hawks Nest can produce a good wine entirely from grapes grown on our little four acres of vines.

More soon!!!

A happy and proud Dr JIm!!