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About this Event
After a year hiatus, the festival celebrating your favourite grape variety is BACK!
Pinot Palooza is wine that
ROCKS. Our line-up of Pinot producers are the best from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. So come, soak up the wine, music and taste your way across the #pinot spectrum.
Now over multiple sessions to better manage crowds and enthusiasms!
All the Pinot. All the chats. All the vibes. All the love.
#PINOTPALOOZA
Wineries include .
Akarua, Amisfield, Ata Rangi, Bald Hills, Burn Cottage, Butterworth, Carrick, Clos Henri, Cloudy Bay, Craggy Range, Dog Point, Domaine Thomson, Fromm, Giant Steps, Gibbston Valley, Gladstone Vineyard, Grasshopper Rock ,Jackson Estate, Lime Rock, Loveblock, Luna Estate, Madam Sass, Matahiwi, Mount Edward, Mud House, Nockies Palette, Quartz Reef, Rippon, Rock Ferry, Schubert, Te Whare Ra, The Boneline, Valli, Wet Jacket and more to come!
Making the Case for New Zealand Reds
BY REBECCA GIBB MW | MARCH 02, 2021
Almost a century before Pinot Noir found its feet in Central Otago and Martinborough, a Croatian-born viticulturist toured New Zealand to assess the potential for making wine. In 1895, Romeo Bragato visited the country’s fledgling vineyards, tasting the fruit and delivering his thoughts on the suitability of the climate and soils. In his
Report on the Prospects of Viticulture in New Zealand, he declared that Central Otago, the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay were well adapted to wine production. In a later publication Bragato suggested that the most suitable red grapes were Syrah, the two Cabernets, Dolcetto and Pinot Noir. However, the brakes were slammed on New Zealand’s development as a wine-producing nation. Bragato’s report coincided with the rise of a strong temperance movement, which led to a close-run vote on prohibition in 1919 and ushered in a slew of restrictive measures on wine sales, some of w