Hawke`s Bay Wine

HAWKE’S BAY
New Zealand’s Premium Red Wine Region
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Where is Hawke’s Bay?
AUCKLAND
HAWKE’S BAY
NAPIER
HASTINGS
CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY
Hawke’s Bay is in the North
Island of NZ, 300km North
of Marlborough and 360km
South of Auckland.
Located at 39.4°South, our
climate is similar to Bordeaux
in the North.
WELLINGTON
CHRISTCHURCH
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Wine Regions of New Zealand
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Hawke’s Bay covers a total
land area of 1.4 million
hectares on 350km of Pacific
Ocean coastline.
Vineyards are concentrated in
a 50km x 30km area around
the Hastings and Napier cities
within sheltering inland ranges
although more are being
planted over a larger area
140km x 60km to the North
and South.
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Hawke’s Bay Wine Production
There are over 4,845 producing hectares planted with
72 wineries and 123 independent grape growers. Most of
Hawke’s Bay’s wineries produce less than 200,000 litres per
annum and are family owned providing a true artisan experience.
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Hawke’s Bay: a Maritime Climate
A maritime climate, free draining soil types with natural low
fertility, prevailing hot dry north westerly winds, low rainfall, a long
growing season and an annual average of 2220 sunshine hours
make Hawke’s Bay one of the warmest areas in New Zealand.
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Climate Comparisons
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1546
1500
1470
1382
1352
1242
1195
1123
625
470
427
348
432
429
347
288
257
193
204
Hawke’s Bay
Waipukurau,
Central
Hawke’s Bay
183
106
116
193
150
112
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Medoc,
Bordeaux
Valence,
Rhône
Coonawarra,
South
Australia
HEAT DEGREES DAYS
Manjimup,
Western
Australia
Napa,
California
RAINFALL mm (growing season)
Dijon,
Burgundy
Blenheim,
Marlborough
RAINFALL (for 3 months of vintage)
SOURCE: “ Viticulture and Environment,” John Gladstone. 1992 (adjusted to remove the 19 degree C upper limit)Hawke’s Bay figures are a mean of six geographically distributed vineyards from 1995 – 2014
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Hawke’s Bay Climatic Maps
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> Heat Degree Days
> January Mean Temperature
> Annual Rainfall
> October Frost Days
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Hawke’s Bay Geography
Over thousands of years, 5 major Hawke’s Bay rivers moved and formed valleys
and terraces to create over 25 different soil types from clay loam, to limestone,
to sands and free draining gravels and red metal.
Altitude within Hawke’s Bay ranges from sea level to several hundred metres inland.
Warm north-facing hillsides, river valleys and terraces, and coastal areas provide
a range of low vigour vineyard sites suitable for a diversity of varieties.
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Hawke’s Bay Plantings
RIVER VALLEYS
From Hawke’s Bay North to the South,
sub-regional plantings are matched
to varietal type.
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COASTAL AREAS
ALLUVIAL PLAINS
HILLSIDES
CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY
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Hawke’s Bay Sub-Regions
ESK
RIVER
DARTMOOR
VALLEY
N
HAWKE
BAY
TUTAEKURI
RIVER
NAPIER
CROWNTHORPE
TERRACES
KOROKIPO
OHITI
GIMBLETT
GRAVELS
NGARURORO
RIVER
TUKITUKI
RIVER
BRIDGE PA
TRIANGLE
HASTINGS
TE AWANGA
HAVELOCK
HILLS
MANGATAHI
TERRACES
HAVELOCK
NORTH
TUKITUKI
VALLEY
CENTRAL
HAWKE’S BAY
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Hawke’s Bay Soil Map
Over the last 5 million years plate tectonic
movement has uplifted greywacke rock formed
from compressed sand to shape the Kaweka
and Ruahine mountain ranges. These same
geological powers, combined with natural
weathering processes, have also caused the
rock to fracture and erode into streams and
rivers where it is transported and deposited as
greywacke alluvium. This creates the multitudes
of soil types from rounded gravels, sand, silt
and clay.
Whirinaki
Eskdale
Bay View
Rissington
Westshore
NAPIER
Puketapu
Green Meadows
Taradale
Awatoto
Fernhill
Pakowhai
Clive
Whakatu
Haumoana
Mangateretere
Flaxmere
HASTINGS
Maraekakaho
Te Awanga
Clifton
Bridge Pa
Havelock North
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» ESK RIVER
» DARTMOOR
» TE AWANGA
» HERETAUNGA
» MANGATAHI
& CROWNTHORPE
» BRIDGE PA
» HAVELOCK HILLS
» GIMBLETT GRAVELS
» TUKITUKI
» OHITI
» CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY
Soil Map of the
Heretaunga Plains
Sheet 1 of 2
Raukawa
Ocean Beach
Te Hauke
Lake Poukawa
DATA FROM: Soil map and legend compiled by E. Griffiths, 1997, from the
Soil Map of Heretaunga Plains, Hawke's Bay (DSIR 1938), with additional
soil surveys by E. Griffiths, G. Smith, B. Purdie, and B. McLaughlin of New
Zealand Soil Bureau, DSIR, 1971 to 1991, and by E. Griffiths,1991 to 1997.
Soil information obtained from Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd,
Private Bag 11052, Palmerston North and the intellectual property rights in
respect of the soil information is vested in Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
DATA FROM: Soil information obtained from the Hawke's
Bay Regional Council's Geographic Information Systems
Database.
LIMITATIONS AND COPYRIGHT
This map may not be reproduced or transmitted to any other
party, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written
permission of the copyright holder.
DISCLAIMER
The Hawke's Bay Regional Council cannot guarantee that the
data shown on this map is 100% accurate.
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New Zealand’s Oldest Wine Region
By the early 1920s, Mission Estate, Te Mata Estate, Vidal Estate, McDonalds Winery
and Glenvale Winery (now Esk Valley Winery) were all established in the region.
Hawke’s Bay is New Zealand’s oldest wine region with beginnings in 1851
pioneering innovation and leadership.
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Hawke’s Bay Varietal Mix
TONNES
PINOT
GRIS
11%
OTHER
3%
PINOT
NOIR
7%
MERLOT
CABERNET
29%
SYRAH
4%
SAUVIGNON
BLANC
25%
CHARDONNAY
21%
Hawke’s Bay is a unique region in
the wine growing world with many
varieties grown successfully. Other
more homogenous regions cannot
duplicate the complement of vineyard
sites available to our wine growers.
The total Hawke’s Bay vintage in 2015
was just over 36,000 tonnes. Currently
63% of production is white wine and
37% is red wine. Chardonnay, Merlot
Cabernet varieties and Syrah combined
make up 54% of the annual vintage.
New Zealand Winegrowers
Annual Vintage Survey 2015
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Vintage by Region and Variety
(2015)
Tonnes
14,000
12,000
10,000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
Chardonnay
MARLBOROUGH
Merlot Cabernet
HAWKE’S BAY
GISBORNE
Syrah
AUCKLAND
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Hawke’s Bay: New Zealand’s
Red Wine Region
Hawke’s Bay is now New Zealand’s second largest wine region and
the largest premium red wine producing region in the country.
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Hawke’s Bay: Premium
Red Wine Region
Merlot Cabernet & Syrah
(hectares) 2014
17%
Merlot Cabernet & Syrah
(tonnes) 2015
11%
83%
Syrah (tonnes) 2015
16%
89%
84%
Hawke’s Bay
New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay is the largest contributor to the national vintage
of Merlot Cabernet and Syrah categories of wine grapes in
tonnes and producing hectares.
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Hawke’s Bay Merlot Cabernet
Hawke’s Bay Merlot Cabernet wines
are described as having “luscious ripe
fruit flavours that acquire complex
structure and elegance with age”.
“What better flavour – unexpected, savoury, sveltely
textured – to begin with than that expressed by merlot
and cabernet sauvignon from Hawke’s Bay… Bordeaux
grapes in Hawke’s Bay produce provocative results”
MALCOLM GLUCK, THE GUARDIAN, APRIL 2002
The region’s red wine blends show
true synergy in creating a whole
greater than the sum of its parts.
Both Cabernet Sauvignon and
Merlot dominant blended wines are
championed in Hawke’s Bay although
tend towards a higher component
of Merlot. Assemblage choices are
dependent on individual vineyard sites
and conditions.
Hawke’s Bay Merlot Cabernet wines
combine the best of Old World
structure and the New World purity
of fruit flavour.
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Hawke’s Bay Syrah
Hawke’s Bay Syrah is produced
in a classic European style and
described as “dark, weighty,
intensely varietal with plum,
fresh raspberry and black pepper
flavours”.
“Hawke’s Bay Syrah’s selling point is that fresh, long, pepper character, so rare outside the Northern Rhône, and which Hawke’s Bay Syrah has
in abundance.”
JAMES LAWTHER MW,
WWW.DECANTER.COM, JANUARY 2009
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Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay
Hawke’s Bay has consistently
produced New Zealand’s leading
examples of Chardonnay and
some of the finest flavoured,
complex and textural
Chardonnays in the world.
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Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay
Tonnes 2015
Producing Hectares 2014
28%
72%
30%
70%
Hawke’s Bay
New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay has 30% of New Zealand’s total
producing hectares for this variety and 28% of
New Zealand’s table Chardonnay vintage
NEW ZEALAND WINEGROWERS ANNUAL VINTAGE SURVEY 2015 AND VINEYARD REGISTER 2014
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Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay
Hawke’s Bay Chardonnays are rich,
complex wines with distinctive
flavours of citrus and ripe stonefruit.
Unoaked or “natural” Chardonnay is
also growing in popularity.
“The region’s exquisite and compelling chardonnays; a genre overlooked by the world’s media, yet impressively coherent in style and quality.”
andrew Caillard MW
Gourmet Traveller Wine, Feb-Mar 2010
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Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc
Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc
Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc is 25%
of the annual regional vintage and
provides an alternative style, retaining
the freshness typical of New Zealand
Sauvignon Blanc while exhibiting ripe
tropical fruit flavours.
“Hawkes Bay turns out rounder, more floral sauvignons with ripe, tropical fruit flavors.”
gerald d. boyd,
www.thewinenews.com, feb-mar 2000
Image supplied courtesy of Villa Maria Estate Limited
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Hawke’s Bay Wines
Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris
Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris is now 11%
of the annual regional vintage and
becoming increasingly recognised
as a premium style along with other
aromatic wines.
Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir
Hawke’s Bay table Pinot Noir plantings
reach into cooler more elevated sites
within the region. Pinot Noir comprises
7% of the annual regional vintage.
Other Exciting Wines
Individual wineries have had great
success with Gewürztraminer, Viognier,
Riesling and Semillon. Other, more
experimental varieties include Arneis,
Montepulciano, Verdelho, Sangiovese,
Tempranillo and Zinfandel.
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Hawke’s Bay has Grown
and Responded
Hawke’s Bay wine growers are fast learners coming a long way
from the previous 30 years and have a culture of innovation and
non-prescriptive wine making and growing practices.
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Producing Hectares (Ha)
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Hawke’s Bay has Grown
and Responded
Red wine varieties are no longer planted on
the deep vigorous soil types that produced
wine in the 1970s.
Vineyard practices have been innovative and
developed to encompass irrigation management,
frost protection, canopy management to variety
and predictive spray practices.
To produce the premium and fine wines within
Hawke’s Bay, vineyard crop levels have been
aligned to desired market price points and new
vineyard development considers cost efficiencies
and wine growing sustainability practices.
Winemaking practices have also evolved to
include indigenous yeasts, cold soaking on red
varieties, and micro-oxygenation and specialised
fruit-handling equipment for red wine varieties.
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Sustainable Hawke’s Bay
Sustainable Winegrowing New
Zealand® is a pro-active environmental
management system that enables the
production of high quality wine by
employing environmentally responsible
and economically viable processes in
vineyards and wineries.
Hawke’s Bay has the highest percentage
of Sustainable Winegrowing New
Zealand® accredited wineries than any
other wine region in the country.
Of the 266 vineyards within the region,
96.2% are Sustainable Winegrowing
New Zealand® accredited. Hawke’s Bay is
committed to this independently audited
sustainability programme and these
numbers will increase.
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Hawke’s Bay Accolades
“Although I had tasted a few wines from Hawke’s Bay
prior to my arrival, I simply didn’t fully grasp what
this warm North Island region was capable of, and how
truly unique it is.”
Daenna Van Mulligan, www.winescores.ca , July 2011
“Australia has probably at least 20 regions that
consistently produce outstanding shiraz. New Zealand
has one: Hawkes Bay.”
Huon Hooke, The Age, September 2010
“This fêted part of the North Island can turn
its hand to anything.”
Steven Spurrier, Decanter World Wine Awards Chairman, 2011
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Hawke’s Bay Accolades
Simply put,
Hawke’s Bay produces some of the finest flavoured, complex,
textural Chardonnay’s in the new world, and the warm low
vigour vineyards of the region produce, at their best, rich
elegant ripe red wines based on either Merlot or Syrah.
Nowhere else in New Zealand can do this.
these are wines that we love...it is why we are here!
– STEVE SMITH MW, CRAGGY RANGE WINERY
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Contact Hawke’s Bay Wine
For further Hawke’s Bay information and details please contact the below organisations.
hawke’s bay wine
james medina
telephone: +64 6 876 3418
email: [email protected]
Hawkes Bay Wine
@HawkesBay_Wine
www.hawkesbaywine.co.nz
new zealand winegrowers
new zealand
chris yorke
united kingdom
chris stroud
usa
david strada: san francisco
telephone: +64 9 306 5551
email: [email protected]
web: www.nzwine.com
telephone: + 44 207 973 8079
email: [email protected]
web: www.nzwine.com
telephone: +1 415 567 5511
email: [email protected]
australia
natalie corkery: melbourne
canada
robert ketchin
asia
natalie potts: hong kong
telephone: +61 3 9614 7577
email: [email protected]
telephone: +1 705 444 0195
email: [email protected]
telephone: +852 2511 3883
email: [email protected]
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