Loveblock - Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022The wine made by Kim Crawford is not Kim Crawford but Loveblock. With their old label Kim Crawford, Kim and Erica Crawford had won numerous accolades, medals, trophies, and produced many Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines. While cleaning out their house in New Zealand to move in 2015, Kim and Erica Crawford came across a desk pad from the early days of their former wine label. On it they had mapped out their future: Grow the brand, sell it within nine
and the first single varietal Shiraz in 1956
They pass over the grassy strips of the vineyard between the intentionally unplanted 5th and 6th vineyard row
and thus the production of high quality grapes
helping the grapes to ripen even in difficult years
clay soils
Madeira Wine was discovered by pure accident
where 4 coopers maintain the stock of old seasoned American oak casks
This is the same exposure of Verzenay and Mailly Grand Crus
followed with a Master in Oenology and Viticulture
the Pieropan family is also making some of the best Valpolicella and Amarone from their 16 hectare property in the Val d‘Illasi (to the west of Soave Classico) which they bought in 1999
000 metres above sea level
The ownership of Veldenzer Elisenberg dates back to 1813 when ancestor Franz Ludwig Niessen found out that Napoleon Bonaparte planned on uprooting the beloved Veldenz and Mulheim vineyards