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26 March 2012

Villa Maria Gimblett Gravels Merlot receives perfect score

Just a week after winning the Champion Merlot trophy at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards, Villa Maria's Reserve Gimblett Gravels Hawke's Bay Merlot 2010 (RRP NZ$49) has received a perfect score - 20 out of 20. Read more here

20 March 2012

Roy's Hill restoration project set to be unveiled

Roy's Hill Reserve has been beautified and transformed into a magnificent public greenspace in a joint initiative between Hastings District Council and the Hastings Landmarks Trust. More info

19 March 2012

Villa Maria lifts Royal Easter Show Champion Merlot trophy
Gimblett Gravel's 2010 vintage continued it's scintillating early show season form, this time with Merlot. Click here for more

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Gimblett Gravels - a special terroir located in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand, producing some of the world's finest full bodied red wines.

In 2001, wine producers  and winegrowers with land in this special area, formed the Gimblett Gravels Winegrowers Association in order to, collectively, promote this special area to the world.

Gimblett Gravels combines the French concept of terroir with modern day thinking to define, protect and market wine. In what is believed to be a first for winegrowers in the New World - wine growing countries outside Europe - Gimblett Gravels is basing the ultimate designation of their district according to a tightly specified soil type. 

The Gimblett Gravels appellation, covering 800ha, is strictly determined by the gravely soils laid down by the old Ngaruroro River, which were exposed after a huge flood in the 1860's.