Happy New Year! We hope you had an amazing Christmas and New Year break, enjoying time with friends and family, the brilliant sunshine and of course a bottle or two of delicious wine. 2019 is looking to be as exciting as our wines! The Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration is about to commence, we…
Wine Club Tasting Notes with Angie Atkinson April 2019 It’s a busy time in the vineyards and our brand new winery this month! We are extremely excited to have the winery in operation; we are so excited in fact that we wanted to share in this special time by doing something special for you. We…
Also from 2015, Prophet’s Rock has debuted a new wine of some note. The Prophet’s Rock Pinot Noir Cuvée Aux Antipodes 2015 is a collaborative project with esteemed Burgundian winemaker François Millet and adds yet another layer of respected outsider influence to the Central Otago pinot noir landscape. The fine, yet stoic and savory style…
Between Summertime and the Silly Season, stocking up on wine and gifts can feel like quite the challenge. What is going to please everyone? What about the person who has everything? How do you know they’re going to like it? To make life a little easier for NZ winelovers, we’ve put together a cheat sheet…
Hello from Summer in Central Otago! We have had a funny old season in the vineyard so far, it’s been warm so things are on track but lots of weather coming through the region. This has made life pretty nice for the vineyard in terms of water and growth has been great. From our perspective…
As New Zealand climbs down lockdown levels, it’s a great time to reflect on what has been an unusual harvest. I use the word ‘unusual’ because, although Covid-19 has thrown a few serious challenges our way, the harvest itself has given us universally exceptional grapes, one of the best seasons in terms of fruit quality…
Paul’s Winter Wine Travels, Lesson One Back in early March, it looked like we would have a slightly early and compressed harvest. So, when planning an overdue work journey, it seemed safe to take off towards the end of May. In a cool climate like Central Otago, that is a beginner’s mistake. The season cooled…
Bendigo, Central Otago With our vineyards painted the colours of Autumn, a tapestry of yellow, burnt orange, crimson and dusty brown leaves crunching underfoot, the last of the Home Vineyard grapes for the 2020 vintage were picked on the chilly morning of Sunday the 26th of April. What better time to tell you about this…
All the way from Chambolle-Musigny (by Zoom of course!), winemaker François Millet joins Paul Pujol and together they take you through a flight of Cuvée Aux Antipodes Pinot Noir.
2013 Prophet’s Rock Retrospect Pinot Noir – Rating 95 Points Reviewed by Joe Czerwinski Issue Date: 1st Mar 2018 Source: 235, The Wine Advocate Released five years after the vintage, there are 736 bottles of the 2013 Retrospect Pinot Noir, which comes from a single parcel of clone 5 (Pommard). It’s deep, dark and chocolaty, rich and dense…
One of the first parcels we picked this vintage was the Chardonnay from Kopuwai Delta for our Cuvée Aux Antipodes collaboration with François Millet from Chambolle-Musigny. The season wasn’t easy for Chardonnay, we had frost events in the spring which led to small bunches and overall yield. Coming into verasion there was also very late…
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