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64 6 844 4942 434 Dartmoor Rd
Puketapu, 4141
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Ian@riversidewines.co.nz
www.riversidewines.co.nz

Riverside wines is a family owned and operated business with vineyards and a winery situated in the Dartmoor Valley wine growing area of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The Cadwalladers planted the first vineyard in the early 1980s as part of their mixed farming operation. The winery was established in 1989 and has been in a state of growth ever since. The first grape crush consisted of five tons of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes and now crushes around 195 tons of both red and white varieties. While this is an astronomical increase the winery production will still be regarded as "boutique". Over the years the focus in the vineyards has changed from being a grower producing a crop for someone else to process into wine to specifically training particular grapes in separate vineyards for particular wines. The vineyard workers have always practiced Integrated Winegrape Production (IWP). The area of the farm converted to vineyards has increased from 16 to 75 acres over a ten year period and as their knowledge Read more »

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  • Sauvignon Blanc

    Sauvignon Blanc is widely grown in California -- at over 15,000 acres, it’s now the third most planted variety -- and...

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

    “King of the Red Wine Grapes.” The colonizer of the vineyards, pushing native wine grapes into its shadows. The Caber...

  • Merlot

    The Occitanian word “merlot” translates to “young blackbird.” An accurate description for this popular, early-budding...

  • Syrah

    The irony here is that Syrah’s origins could give Carmen Sandiego a run for her international wallet. Syrah’s deepest...

  • Chardonnay

    British wine writer and critic, Jancis Robinson, once noted that throughout the 80’s and 90’s in the United States, C...

  • Zinfandel

    Parentage of the grape: Crljenak to Austria to America. In the 1970s, claims surfaced that the Italian Primitivo is l...

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  • March 2012

    OK, someone just asked me about where to visit and what to do in Temecula. Don't think I've been there since the very early '90s.I did visit Callaway a few times back in the late '70s into the '80s and thought they were doing great for the locale, but I haven't had any of their bottles in more than a decade. Certainly they were better back then ... Read More

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  • February 2012

    I generally avoid wine clubs of any sort, even at my favorite wineries--I'm too promiscuous to sign up to drink 12 or 24 botles of someone's wine in a year--but I am a member of Mauritson's Rockpile list, because there's no longer any way to get the Cemetery Zinfandel and good luck getting any of the others, either.  Since I have in-laws up that... Read More

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  • January 2010

    My boyfriend and I will be taking a trip to France in about a month and we will be spending 2 days in the Loire Valley. Has anyone been wine tasting in the Loire Valley who could give me recommendations on which wineries to visit? It's okay if the good ones are off the beaten path as we will have a rental car and I would rather go out of my wa... Read More

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  • Eponymous Red Bordeaux Blend Sonoma Valley Macallister Vineyard 2003

    November 2008

    Eponymous Red Bordeaux Blend Sonoma Valley Macallister Vineyard 2003

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    This is a previous selection from the Gold Medal Wine Club-Platinum Series. The 2003 Eponymous MacAllister wine received an absolutely incredible Best of Show, Best of the Best & 5 out of 5 Stars in the Quarterly Review of Wines magazines blind tasting competition Big, rich, walloping, ultra-ripe, blackberry, spice, mocha and vanilla flavors th... Read More

    Wine review by Gold Medal Wine Club


  • September 2008

    The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and ViniPortugal and The Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto (IVDP) are teaming up and bring you two great tastings this october! Come and sample over 150 of the greatest wines of Portugal while helping those who help our pets. Discover Portugals many varieties of exciting Reds and Whites m... Read More

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