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LAND FOR SALE: We have 10 acres, a mixture of grapes, olives, citrus, buildings & pasture for sale.

Full details and images on TRADEME: 281139631. A rare opportunity to live in a rural, coastal vineyard setting with full vineyard management and purchase by Clearview Estate. Includes a substantial amenities building and a second building site with views to Napier and the Kawekas.

HARVEST HAWKE’S BAY 30 & 31 January 2010

Harvest Hawke's Bay this year will be at one central location in the heart of the Gimblett Gravels at Roy’s Hill on Saturday, 30 January.  

Savour our award winning Clearview Estate wines along with the wines from other top Hawke’s Bay wineries. 

Match your glass of wine to the delicious array of sublime food and groove along with the outstanding entertainment from Nairobi Trio and Give it a Girl featuring Annie Crummer, Shona Laing, Debbie Harwood, Sharon O’Neil and Gala Harwood.

Join us at our Wine & Food Matching Workshop as our Head Chef, Kerry MacKay along with our winemaker Tim Turvey join forces to present Clearview Estate’s renowned Chardonnay, Black Reef Blush, and the infamous Sea Red dessert wine with a taste of exquisitely prepared hors d’oeuvres.  During the workshop Kerry and Tim will share with you their knowledge of and passion for the art of food and wine matching.
Cost: $45 per person

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SUNDAY AT THE WINERY IN TE AWANGA

11am-1pm “Create your Enigma”. Join our winemakers Tim Turvey and Barry Riwai in this exciting hands-on learning workshop – learn about our Bordeaux style reds and create the best blend for our 2009 Enigma. $110 pp including lunch & a bottle of the best blend – numbers are limited, so call us to book your place.

Helma and Kelly invite you to visit our iconic restaurant and cellar door between 10am – 5pm, for food, wine and coffee.
A la carte dining and express menu options – booking is recommended.

COMPANION PLANTING IN THE HOME BLOCK:

spring planting of Phacelia to feed & host desirable insects

Success at Hawke's Bay A & P Wine Awards

Clearview Estate won double silver at the recent Hawke's Bay A & P Society's Wine Awards, announced on 14 October 2009.  

Our 2007 Old Olive Block Cabernet Sauvignon blend won a silver medal in the Cabernet Sauvignon dominant blend category.  This win is an impressive fourth silver medal for the wine so far this year, in addition to a 4.5 star rating from the influential Australian magazine Winestate.  

Our 2008 Reserve Semillon also won a silver medal in the Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon class.  Reserve Semillon is a style only produced by Clearview in vintage years and the silver medal adds to the wine's strengthening pedigree.  Earlier this year the Reserve Semillon had won a bronze medal at the Royal Easter Show and had gained a 4 star rating in Winestate magazine.

Other wins at the A & P awards included bronze medals for the 2009 Black Reef Blush in the Rosé category and for the 2008 Cape Kidnappers Merlot Malbec in the Merlot class.  The bronze for the Blush is on top of two silver medals and one bronze from competitions earlier in the year.  The medal tally for the Merlot Malbec now totals three bronzes so far this year.

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Hot Red Hawkes Bay

The 'Hot Red' Roadshow was red hot this year with great feedback on our wines as winemaker/proprietor Tim Turvey presented them to trade and public in Christchurch, Wellington & Auckland.  This event is becoming a sellout feature for wine lovers and the public are falling over themselves for Bordeaux blends after a market saturation of pinot noir and syrah.

Clearview Estate Wines have a Royal Audience

 Prime Minister John Key hosted a state dinner for the King and Queen of Spain recently, a friendly occasion that showcased the culinary talent of Ruth Pretty, who catered the event.  It was also a chance to present some of the finest wine the country has to offer, organisers carefully selecting wines to match each delectable course.

The evening drew to a close with an unctuous concoction of white and dark chocolate mousse with an orange curd meringue tart and rich brownie ice cream, perfectly set of by cult classic Clearview Estate Sea Red dessert wine.

Clearview Estate celebrates the first release from the 2009 Vintage

The wait for the first wine of the 2009 vintage is over, with Clearview Estate announcing it’s first release, our popular Gewurztraminer, due Thursday 4th June.  We believe this is the first release in Hawke’s Bay for 2009.

For the last two months, the winemakers at Clearview Estate have been sporting the very bernie, charles, helma, kelly, tim, maarea, barry, russell

latest in vintner chic – dark circles under the eyes, crumpled overalls that have managed an average of 6 hours on the bedroom floor before being donned for another day’s work, grizzly beards and the all-important thousand-acre stare! As for the majority of wineries in Hawkes Bay, Clearview Estate has experienced an excellent grape-growing season with record tonnage across all varieties over the 2009 vintage. Rumours that the ’09 season will rival the much-lauded ’98 are rife, but the proof will be in the tastings and competitions that wineries enter this year.

As well as being the first release, the Clearview Estate Gewurztraminer is the first variety harvested from our 5-year old Sandler Block. Normally averaging around 4 tonnes per acre, it was harvested twice to maximise flavours and push all limits. Handpicked on 18th and 24th March, it yielded a massive 8 tonnes at 23.8 brix & 3.5 pH – a perfect balance which is all-important with this variety. Sharing elegance and purity of flavour with lovely lychee, ginger and Turkish Delight characters. The grapes were carefully pressed under CO2 gas – no flavours were lost and a controlled slow ferment at 10 degree C ensured all the subtle nuances were preserved.

After cold-settling and filtration the first of Hawke’s Bay’s whites is released after only 2½ months – fresh, vibrant, youthful and crammed full of aromatics that will continue to develop over the next 8-10 years. Clearview Estate’s Gewurztraminer will be available through our restaurant, cellar door and selected outlets from 4th June, 2009.

As the Gewurztraminer is being released it is interesting to note that Clearview Estate’s Noble Harvest Chardonnay grapes are still on the vine and yet to be harvested.

Women in Business 2009

Source:  Hastings Leader (May 20, 2009)

Clearview goes sustainable gold...along with our: 

ENDORSED VISITOR ACTIVITY & SUSTAINABLE WINEGROWING, we are very proud to announce that we have just been awarded an ENVIRO GOLD award for our dedication to the Environment and Responsible Tourism.

The first 'visitor activity' in Hawke's Bay to receive this prestigious award, we are extremely pleased to be at the forefront of something  that has always mattered to our business direction.  The environmental practices introduced by owners Helma van den Berg and Tim Turvey when they first bought the property were borne from respect for the land and the environment, their vision to improve & preserve the property for future generations.  The fact that we have now set a benchmark for future activities is testament to their dedication.  Please visit here for more information.

The last grapes are off!

The 2008/2009 grape growing season lay in the hands of the gods when picking time came around.  A very long, hot summer preceded the 2 weeks of what seemed like solid rain.  The tension amongst our winemakers was palpable as they planned the picking schedule - their talent and mettle were tested as they held off picking while many other wineries were stripping grapes off their vines before the next fall of rain.  This paid off in the end, a late indian summer giving the grapes 3 glorious weeks of sun.

Talent, experience,a knowledge of the land (and just a tiny bit of luck) meant that grapes were harvested in excellent condition, and with the optimum brix level.  Now the winemakers are busy making their award winning wines and looking forward to a stunning 2009 vintage across the range.

In the vineyard FEB 2009~a beautiful crop waits under nets for vintage:

the dog seeks out birds in the Chardonnay   ~     cabernet franc

sauvignon blanc                                ~                     gewürztraminer

Congratulations...

... to Grant Marshall (Napier, Hawkes Bay), winner of a free bottle of wine this month.  All he had to do was fill in our customer feedback form, add his address to the form, and he was in to win.  Diners at our restaurant are all in with the same chance, so don't forget to fill your forms in!

Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2008

Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2008 results have been   announced, with our Reserve Chardonnay and Old Olive Block scooping the coveted Gold

See other results here!

2006 ENIGMA takes the Merlot Trophy 

The NZ international wine show 2008. The same trophy which we won last year for the OLD OLIVE BLOCK

INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR CLEARVIEW'S ENIGMA

30^th June 2008 – Clearview Estate Winery of Hawke’s Bay has received glowing praise from UK wine writer Robert Joseph in the UK daily newspaper The Telegraph.

Joseph declared the 2006 Clearview Enigma “Classy and worth keeping” in his recent article in the daily newspaper, .  After travelling to New Zealand as part of his year long research for a wine travel guide, Joseph, an obvious advocate of New Zealand wines, stated “I would go as far as to say that no wine-producing country does a better job of welcoming tourists.”

Not only did Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and Central Otago Pinot Noir get a general mention, but Clearview Estate was singled out as a Hawke’s Bay producer for its top quality Bordeaux blend “Enigma”.  “Made from the traditional Bordeaux combination of Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, this is a very Bordeaux-like wine,” Joseph stated.

Clearview Estate winemaker and co-owner Tim Turvey is proud that Joseph rated the 2006 Enigma a 4/5, “Clearview Estate has been at the forefront of producing Merlot dominant blends for twenty odd years and the Enigma is our premium wine in that category.”  Turvey states.

In a recent review of the New Zealand wine industry, Neal Martin, wine writer for the highly influential Robert Parker, made bold positive statements regarding the quality of Hawke’s Bay Bordeaux blends.  “Perhaps echoing Chardonnay, one forgets just how fine New Zealand’s Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends can be, particularly in Hawke’s Bay…”

IN THE VINEYARD 2008

'old vine' sauvignon blanc vineyard in the spring

10 October - great colour and vine growth herald the spring. A number of killer frosts have been deflected by our new windmill! so we are smiling this season

23 April - this is it, a glorious day as we bring in the final red varieties as the leaves go into autumn colour

10 April - all the whites are in and at every stage of fermenting! We take a break before the red grapes are picked from the 16th.

Russell Mayne inspects the first pick of this season, gewurztraminer February 28th!!

The 'A' team begins vintage, Jeremy & Anne