2018 Heroes of Humanity Pinot Noir
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For family reasons we have decided not to open our cellar door this season. Although all Brightwater Vineyards staff are fully vaccinated and COVID-19 protocols have been put into place, the cellar door will remain closed. Please note that purchases can be made on this website under Shop Online or by simply phoning us on…
Cellar door dogs have been synonymous with cellar doors as long as cellar doors have been opening. Books have featured these four-legged friends for years. Here at Brightwater Vineyards our 18-month-old teenager is Bella. She is a Border Collie / Poodle cross (Bordoodle?) She is an absolute delight and so cuddly and always ready to…
The 2020 vintage was certainly a different one for us. It takes a team of about sixteeen pickers three days to hand pick our Pinot Noir. Luckily, because the summer was hot, the grapes ripened a bit earlier than normal. Hence we were able to use our picking team to hand pick all the Pinot…
Despite dry weather and fires across the region, Nelson’s grape growers aren’t feeling the heat with the 2019 harvest underway. Staff at Nelson’s Brightwater Vineyards were busy filling bins of riesling grapes on Saturday morning, collecting what proprietor Gary Neale hoped would be another award-winning vintage. Neale said the dry, hot weather of the summer months had meant an…
On Saturday 7 November, Nelson Tasman Tourism and Wine Nelson hosted His Royal Highness Prince Charles and Her Royal Highness Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall at a “Source to Serve” wine event!
Our 2014 Nelson Pinot Noir has been awarded a Pure Gold Medal at the prestigious Air New Zealand Wine Awards announced today (10/11/15). This is the fourth Gold Medal for this wine and follows on from Spiegelau, Bragato and the International Aromatics competitions earlier this year.
Our 2014 Nelson Pinot Noir has just been awarded a Gold Medal at the International Aromatics Wine Competition in Christchurch this week. It was the only Pinot Noir to be awarded gold.
Brightwater Vineyards 2014 Nelson Pinot Noir has just been awarded a Pure Gold Medal at the Bragato Wine Awards in Blenheim this week. This follows on from the Gold Medal the same wine received at the Spiegelau International Wine Competition held in July.
The 2015 wines are all showing very good intensity and concentration of flavour. This concentration is really showing through nicely in the Sauvignon Blancs. The Pinot Noirs also are concentrated with nice ripe berry fruit flavours and great tannin balance. The Pinot Gris is very fruit driven and probably our best of the last few years. But the standout of the vintage will be the Chardonnays.
New Zealand Wine Grower profiles our delight and honour to receive the Colin Harrison Memorial Trophy in early September at the Nelson Winegrowers annual dinner.
We’re delighted that two of our wines have been awarded Gold Medals at the New Zealand International Wine Show – one of New Zealand’s most prestigious wine competitions with the head judge being Master of Wine – Bob Campbell.
The season started off hot and early. The weather in November and December were more like our usual for February – hot and dry. Flowering was early and the grass dried to brown. Unfortunately for the holidaymakers the weather didn’t continue into January which was a little cooler and rainy. It came right again in February.
