Made by a legend of the Hawke's Bay scene!
Esk Valley Artisanal Syrah
- Hawke's Bay Syrah crafted by a true legend of the area, Gordon Russell
- Aged 17 months in French oak
- A full bodied style Hawke's Bay Syrah with lots of red fruit, ripe plum, spice pepper flavours
It’s a place. It’s a winery. It used to be called Glenvale (not to be confused with Gloriavale!) but we now know ’em as Esk Valley.
Built in 1933 by an Englishman (Robert Bird) who produced fortified wine from the 30s through to the 70s until the Esk name was created for a premium range of table wines. These days owned under the umbrella of the highly successful Villa Maria brand, although they do operate as an independent winery with their own winemaking team and vineyards including winemaking legend Gordon Russell.
The Esk Valley Artisinal range is a new fine wine range that’s been given a bit of what they like to call “the Gordon Russell treatment”. That means letting one of NZ’s true greats in winemaking roll up his sleeves and craft seriously good value wines true to variety and style. In this case we’re talking a Syrah that’s been cluster fermented with wild vineyard yeast in open top concrete fermenters and aged for 17 months in French oak.
A full bodied style Hawke’s Bay Syrah with lots of red fruit, ripe plum, spice pepper flavours. A great style to pair with grilled meats like duck, lamb or venison.
- 12.5%
- 750ml
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