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Wednesday August 2 2017 Our People Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi BAY HARBOUR PAGE 13 Neil Pattinson Making good wine a labour of love Neil Pattinson and his wife Jill planted grapes on their Charteris Bay property to see if they could make nice wine. Now, more than 10 years on, Bridget Rutherford speaks to him about producing award-winning wines under the Whistling Buoy label Whistling Buoy’s 2015 pinot noir was named champion wine at the Wines of Canterbury awards. Were you expecting it? Of course (laughs). I’m very pleasantly surprised, we knew it was a good wine. I was absolutely thrilled we got a gold medal, then actually won best match with game so, to me, that was reward enough. But to actually then be named champion wine of the competition at the very end, that’s just the icing on the cake. What do you think made this wine so good? I think it’s a vintage, so it was a really good year and the disease pressure was relatively low. It was also warm so it had all the right elements. Obviously, you’ve still got to put in a lot of viticulture to manage the site. You’ve got to get good air flow and good light penetration. So I think it was good vineyard management, it was a good vintage, and then taking really good fruit and turning it into really exquisite pinot noir. It’s all the elements that make a really good wine. Our winemaking is done up at Greystone in Waipara, so we don’t do it on site. So at harvest point, it’s shipped up to Greystone. But we do have lots of input on the style we want and the amount of oak and oak exposure and that comes to the sorting of the fruit and the whole process. It’s not hands-off. This particular wine has had 10 months on oak and there’s new oak in that not just old oak. It’s the second year a wine from Banks Peninsula has taken out the award, isn’t it? We got second last year. Meniscus Wines in Akaroa were the top pinot noir. The three top pinot noirs got the top three in that category – there was Meniscus, Tussock Hill and ourselves. Ours was the top chardonnay last year. I think that’s the thing about the peninsula, because it’s on clay-based soil and pinot noir does particularly well and chardonnay grape does as well. If you’re going to pick wine varieties Banks Peninsula exemplifies, it would be pinot noir, pinot gris and chardonnay. And being so close to the water in Lyttelton Harbour, do you still get any frosts? We do right in the middle of winter, but not during the important growing season or the early start to the year. In places like Waipara and central plains, you’ve got to have frost protection and we don’t have to bother with that. We have planted in that French-style, the spaces between vines and rows are quite small. So it does mean it’s very hard to mechanise and also we’re on sloping sites, everything’s SUCCESS: Whistling Buoy owner Neil Pattinson says they were thrilled with their honours at the Wines of Canterbury awards. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER done by hand. So part of that is you’re in the vineyard all the time, you’re constantly monitoring, you’re constantly tuning, so it’s a bit labour intensive, but it means that labour of love transforms into really good quality fruit. •Turn to page 14 2018 Early Birds Book your River Cruise with YOU Travel & fly FREE to EUROPE! * 03 384 2700 You Travel Ferrymead 960 Ferry Road melissa@youferrymead.co.nz * Special conditions apply VOtEd APt's tOP shOP 2017
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