Lunch at Highfield
We met Ray and Margaret at Highfield Towers for lunch.
The brick colour of Highfield is beautiful against the green grape vines that take your eye to the top of the hill on which it rests. It looks like it was transplanted here directly from Tuscany.
We ordered lunch and then tasted their wines. The Sauvignon Blanc was exquisite, and we learned that it's their flagship wine. 80% of their production is Sauv Blanc and 75% of that gets exported. Their most recent vintage, which we tasted, has won 5 gold medals.
The Sauv Blancs here in NZ have all been very aromatic and we learned that in many wineries, including Highfield, This is due to the addition of "sweet reserve", a topping up of the bottle with unfermented juice. It creates a heady bouquet which sometimes promises more than it delivers, especially if the wine is a bit light in acid.
My comments in the guest books at the wineries went something like this:
The wines were fragrant
I wanted to drink them all.
Vive Sauvignon Blanc.
The brick colour of Highfield is beautiful against the green grape vines that take your eye to the top of the hill on which it rests. It looks like it was transplanted here directly from Tuscany.
We ordered lunch and then tasted their wines. The Sauvignon Blanc was exquisite, and we learned that it's their flagship wine. 80% of their production is Sauv Blanc and 75% of that gets exported. Their most recent vintage, which we tasted, has won 5 gold medals.
The Sauv Blancs here in NZ have all been very aromatic and we learned that in many wineries, including Highfield, This is due to the addition of "sweet reserve", a topping up of the bottle with unfermented juice. It creates a heady bouquet which sometimes promises more than it delivers, especially if the wine is a bit light in acid.
My comments in the guest books at the wineries went something like this:
The wines were fragrant
I wanted to drink them all.
Vive Sauvignon Blanc.
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