After having been in the market place for five years now, we decided it was time to put our wines to the test and enter them in some competitions. We are delighted that our Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris and Riesling have won 12 medals between them, at top wine competitions, the most recent being a Gold Medal at the Canberra International Riesling Challenge and an Elite Gold Medal at the prestigious Air New Zealand Wine Awards.
We have always felt that our initial indepth research in regard to site location, soil analysis and climatic conditions, together with implementing specific vineyard practices, would contribute to, and produce, outstanding fruit quality.
With continuing our culture in the vineyard of uncompromising and enduring pursuit of best practices, and as the vines mature towards their first decade, our commitment to quality is now being realised.
Vineyard Update - March 2007
The timing of the green harvest is at 80% veraison so that you can see which fruit needs to be removed as it lags behind. If you carry it out too late, you will not know which fruit to remove as it will have all changed colour, but be at differing ripeness. The implications of fruit at different ripeness levels in the finished wine are a major quality issue. One of the viticultural themes at Lamont is to remove the variability that reduces wine quality.
Craig Daly
Viticulturist