We are very pleased to announce that our 2009 Durvillea Sauvignon Blanc (only just released) has won a Gold medal at the International Aromatic Wine Competition this week. For their Press Release click here and for a list of other award winning wines click here
Already this wine has done extremely well, picking up a Gold at the Liquorland International Wine Competition also. Our tasting note for this wine is available below- keep clicking on the image until it is a size you can read!
As I mentioned earlier, Meg and I have been talking and realised that we haven’t held a competition in a while, so we have decided that come November ( not long now) we will hold another competiton! As it often is with us Durvillea girls it will most likely be food based…..
Hello all, It has been a while since I have written on here, and as you can imagine, there are a lot of things happening. As we come into Spring, most of our growers have finished their pruning, setting the vineyards up for a great growing season ahead.
We are releasing the 2009 Durvillea Sauvignon Blanc this week to the whole country, with only a pallet or so left of the 2008, which is all allocated. The 2009 Durvillea SB has already had some great results, recieving Gold in the Liquorland International Wine Competition earlier this year, and being selected as one of the Top100 wines, Michael Cooper has also reviewed the wine and I have posted his review up today here.
A Grand Celebration
A few weeks ago I was down in Kaikoura for a friends birthday, I got talking to one of the guys there, who turned out to be a co- founder of Sustainable Coastlines, after talking some more about what they do we realised that Durvillea could help by supporting them in some of their events that they hold. The result of this has been that Durvillea is sponsoring the world film premiere of “A day at the beach” screening in Hokitika this Friday. The evening is also the launch of Love Your Coast a collaborative initiative between Sustainable Coastlines and the Te Wai Pounamu Foundation. This is to be a nationwide clean up of our beaches and coastline- make sure you look out for the clean up near you.
For those of you on the West Coast who may be heading along to the Grand Celebration, we would love to hear your feedback, it should be a good night!
On a completely different note, I’m not sure if many of you have seen the baby seals on the Kaikoura Coast at the moment, but I went down to see them the other day, and they were incredible to watch, below is a video of them playing. It was great to see that the people who were there while we were, were being respectful of them as wild animals. Meg went to see them too on her way down to Christchurch and I know she has some great photos, so she might post some up soon too.
