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Waipara, a recognised viticultural region, is situated
some forty - five miles north of Christchurch in the South Island of New
Zealand. Vines were first planted in the district in 1981 although
commercial winemaking really only started in 1990. Waipara has many
natural advantages for grape production - long dry summers, sheltered
from cold easterly winds by a range of coastal hills but exposed to the
hot nor-west winds which help to control disease, and a remarkable range of
soils, including shingle, river stones and pockets of clay loams over
limestone.
The planted area has expanded greatly in recent years with considerable corporate investment.
Wines from Waipara have already achieved some notable export success,
especially in the UK through Waterloo Wine Co.
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This comes from a superb, out-of-the-way vineyard in South Island, New Zealand. It’s rich and round, deep and soft with a lovely sense of beeswax and lanolin, earth and a wild, funky, savage quality I keep saying is pheromonal without ever quite working out why - that’s pheromones for you - and a final ancient autumn flavour of quince and medlars. Wines like this make Chardonnay interesting again. 
Oz Clarke's Wine Buying Guide 2007 |
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