Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 13/05-30/06/2020 (Page 12)

hii church road ust 10 minutes' drive from napier hawke's bay is new zealand's oldest the winery closed for two years to renovate while managing to keep its precious heritage domaine cordier winery in bordeaux visited in hawke's bay to craft authentic bordeaux-style wine vats especially to ferment their red oak barriques who has completed more than 20 vintages closely with the small team to produce the best possible fruit quality across their vineyards using a mix of traditional and modern in barrels made from specially selected oak which has spent three years outside to improve wine texture and flavour the history when european wine expert bartholomew steinmetz established taradale vineyards when steinmetz returned to luxembourg he left the winery to the then 19-year old mcdonald soon identified the high sunshine and benign climate of the region as the perfect place to grow grapes for full-bodied red wines new zealand's first widely available cabernet mcdonald's wines were swiftly in demand from wine connoisseurs across the country team and techniques working at church road as a cellar hand chris scott has followed in his footsteps working his way through the ranks until he was named winemaker of show at the new zealand international wine show and was works alongside viticulturist graham bartleet cellar door voted new zealand cellar door of the year surrounded by a hectare of parkland grounds visit the cellar door for a general tasting or to historical museum which displaying some of mcdonald created a legacy through his high- vintagecellars.com.au