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HAWKE’S BAY
NEW ZEALAND’S PREMIUM
RED WINE REGION
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WHERE IS HAWKE’S BAY?
AUCKLAND
NAPIER
HASTINGS
CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY
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
1590
1546
1500
1470
1382
1352
1242
1195
1123
625
470
427
432
429
348
347
288
257
193
183
106
116
204
193
150
112
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Medoc,
Bordeaux
Valence,
Rhône
Coonawarra,
South Australia
HEAT DEGREES DAYS
Manjimup,
South Australia
Napa,
California
Hawke’s Bay
RAINFALL mm (growing season)
Waipukurau,
Central Hawke’s Bay
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
From Hawke’s Bay North to the South,
sub-regional plantings are matched
to varietal type.
RIVER VALLEYS
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COASTAL AREAS
ALLUVIAL PLAINS
HILLSIDES
CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY
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HAWKE’S BAY SUB-REGIONS
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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
Hawke’s Bay’s soils are heavily influenced by this alluvium
but also by aeolian (wind blown) material taking the form of
volcanic ashes, loess or silt and fine sand from river beds.
Fernhill
Pakowhai
Clive
Whakatu
Haumoana
Mangateretere
Flaxmere
HASTINGS
Maraekakaho
Te Awanga
Clifton
Bridge Pa
Havelock North
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» DARTMOOR VALLEY
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& CROWNTHORPE TCES
» BRIDGE PA
» HAVELOCK HILLS
» GIMBLETT GRAVELS
» TUKITUKI VALLEY
» 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
Hawke’s Bay is New Zealand’s oldest wine region with
beginnings in 1851 pioneering innovation and leadership.
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.
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HAWKE’S BAY VARIETAL MIX
TONNES
OTHER
REDS
7%
CABERNET MERLOT
27%
OTHER WHITES
44%
SYRAH 4%
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 2014 was just over 44,500
tonnes. Currently 64% of production is white wine and
36% is red wine. Chardonnay, Cabernet Merlot varieties
and Syrah combined make up 49% of the annual vintage.
CHARDONNAY
18%
New Zealand Winegrowers Annual
Vintage Survey 2014
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VINTAGE BY REGION AND VARIETY (2014)
Tonnes
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Chardonnay
MARLBOROUGH
Cabernet Merlot
HAWKE’S BAY
GISBORNE
Syrah
AUCKLAND
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HAWKE’S BAY — NZ’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 – NZ’S PREMIUM RED WINE REGION
Hawke’s Bay is the largest contributor to the national vintage of Cabernet Merlot
and Syrah categories of wine grapes in tonnes and producing hectares.
18%
13%
82%
**82% of NZ’s producing hectares
in Cabernet Merlot categories
& Syrah (1,828ha)
HAWKE’S BAY
17%
87%
*87% of NZ’s vintage in
Cabernet Merlot categories
(13,912 tonnes)
83%
*83% of NZ’s vintage in Syrah
(1,811 tonnes)
REST OF COUNTRY
* NEW ZEALAND WINEGROWERS ANNUAL VINTAGE SURVEY 2014
** VINEYARD REGISTER 2013
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HAWKE’S BAY CABERNET MERLOT
Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot wines are described
as having “luscious ripe fruit flavours that acquire
complex structure and elegance with age”.
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.
“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”
Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot wines combine the
best of Old World structure and the New World
purity of fruit flavour.
— MALCOLM GLUCK, THE GUARDIAN, APRIL 2002
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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
Hawke’s Bay has 24% of New Zealand’s total producing hectares for
this variety and 22% of New Zealand’s table Chardonnay vintage
TONNES
PRODUCING HECTARES
Hawke’s Bay
6,230
22,181
1,029
New Zealand
3,202
NEW ZEALAND WINEGROWERS ANNUAL VINTAGE SURVEY 2014
VINEYARD REGISTER 2013
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HAWKE’S BAY CHARDONNAY
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 29% 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 10% 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 6% 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 1970’s.
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 WINEGROWERS
For further Hawke’s Bay information and details please contact the below organisations.
hawke’s bay winegrowers inc
james medina
telephone: +64 6 876 3418
email: [email protected]
web: www.winehawkesbay.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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