Puriri Hills will be a featured wine at Burger Bach, a new New Zealand themed restaurant group started this month with its first location in Carytown, Richmond, Virginia. Burger Bach will offer the natural beef, lamb, and mussels of New Zealand, along with our wines, in a casual gastro-pub setting.
Belated holiday greetings from Puriri Hills. We spent Christmas in shaky Christchurch, where we experienced the latest round of 5-6 strength earthquakes. Then back to the vineyard for family visits…hence the lateness of this message...
The big day is finally here! We are releasing our long awaited 2008′s in New Zealand. Email Judy for international or domestic price and ordering information.
These are the wines that Bob Campbell MW rated 95 to 98 points (www.bobswinereviews.com)...
The Women Chefs & Restauranteurs organization are holding their annual World Fare: Street Food Festival, Sunday October 3rd at Willow Restaurant in Arlington, VA. Puriri Hills is one of 5 woman-run vineyards in the world who are featured at this event, along with the top women chefs and restauranteurs of the Washington DC area.
Judy will present Puriri Hills’ wines, paired with the creations of Chef Todd Tregoweth, at Treetops Lodge on Saturday, 16 July. Accommodation, dinner, wines (including a bottle to take home) and breakfast offered at NZ$980 + GST per couple per night. For reservations phone 07 333 2066 or email info@treetops.co.nz.
Puriri Hills Reserve 2006 was rated 96 points in Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine in the April May 2011 edition. In the same magazine Puriri Hills 2007 Estate received 95 points.
Jo Burzynska featured Puriri Hills Estate 2007 in the New Zealand Herald’s Viva magazine on 1 June, 2011. She says, “Its svelte and juicy dark berry fruit is ripe yet restrained...
We are featuring your 2004 Estate and 2006 Reserve at the Washington, D C. International Wine and Food Festival this weekend (Feb. 11 -12 2011)...
Malia, who is Wine and Spirits Director for Zola, a Washington DC hotspot for wine and dining, spent last week at Puriri Hills, tasting and getting the feel for how we grow grapes and make wine here. She declared her barrel tastings at PH the best of her long career. She was recently asked, in an article for thelistareyouonit.com, What is the best value...
Fred and Judy at Puriri Hills
Frederic Ardouin, formerly winemaker at Chateau Latour and today manager and winemaker at Chateau Du Tertre and Chateau Giscours in Margaux and Caiarossa in Tuscany, stayed with us at Puriri Hills last week. He was most impressed with barrel tastings of our cabernet sauvignon and merlot and suggested a Left Bank blend for...
Puriri Hills appears on many of the Washington DC area’s most prestigious wine lists – including The Inn at Little Washington, 2941, Michel, Citronelle, Centrale, Vidalia, Corduroy, Zola, Proof, Willow, Eventide.
View the full list of US restaurants and wine shops stocking Puriri Hills wines…