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Felton Road

“If I buy a bottle of mass produced, manufactured wine, I am very unlikely to see a faulty product. It will probably exactly match my expectations. Academic, since I don’t buy them. When I open hand made artisan wines, I am often disappointed; I have great expectations and the result may not come up to my hopes, or indeed the price I paid. But… all the disappointments are forgotten when a true gem is opened. It will be the result of somebody’s hard graft. Maybe they aced it, maybe not, but when a person gets it right, it matters so much more than when a process does the job.”   Nigel Greening

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The Elms Vineyard and New Beginnings  

The Elms Vineyard, at the western end of Felton Road, lies in a gently sloping, north facing valley cut into the Bannockburn hills at the southern extremity of the Cromwell Basin. Immediately above the vineyard lies Stewart Town and a large dam, where water was stored for sluicing the slopes of Bannockburn during the gold-rush, which started in 1862. The fact that this valley was untouched by the gold miners is possibly a reflection of the deep benches of heavy soil that form much of its structure: soils unlikely to hold significant amounts of gold. After the gold miners departed, the slopes were left for sheep to graze until 1991 when Stewart Elms discovered the site’s potential for great Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling. He started to plant in 1992 and Felton Road began.

With the complex variation in soil, slope, elevation and aspect; fruit from The Elms Vineyard is very varied in personality. 

Calvert Vineyard 

Calvert Vineyard is located just 1.5 km east of the Elms Vineyard on Felton Road. The gentle north-east facing slope lies immediately below the hills of the Bannockburn Gold Sluicings, now a historic park. 

With its low elevation (215-228 metres) and even soil distribution the grapes ripen early and very consistently at Calvert Vineyard. Normally, harvest begins earlier than The Elms due to its lower elevation, more sunshine, Dijon clones and range of rootstocks. The wines normally exhibit a firm texture and expansive mouthfeel with floral aromatics and ripe dark fruits. The tannins are fine and focused with a distinct minerality.

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MacMuir Vineyard

MacMuir Vineyard is located just one km east of The Elms Vineyard on Felton Road. It is a gentle north facing slope that lies immediately below the hills of the Bannockburn Gold Sluicings, now a historic park. In 2010, Felton Road purchased the land from the Calvert family and planting began in 2012 after an extensive period of preparing the soils to optimise soil structure and fertility. Nigel Greening, Felton Road’s owner, is the son of a Muir clan member: Betty Muir, hence the title MacMuir (son of a Muir). 

With the high-density planting, diverse range of clones and vine material and heavy silt soils, MacMuir offers a range of complex fruit characters. The low-lying vineyard (elevation 216-224 metres) is relatively sheltered and warm with excellent ripening potential. The wines exhibit a decadent texture and mouthfeel with floral aromatics and ripe dark fruits. 

 

Cornish Point

Cornish Point is an old gold miners’ settlement located adjacent to the Hartley and Reilly diggings where the first large find of gold was made in the Central Otago gold rush. It was named after the Cornish gold miners who lived there and was abandoned in the late 19th century then planted as an apricot orchard in the mid-20th century. Felton Road planted it to vines in 2000. 

With the low elevation (193-202 metres) and proximity to the lake, fruit from Cornish Point is often the first pick of the harvest. The resulting wines display dense and dark fruit, with warm and inviting textures from usually softer acidities and rounded, well-formed tannins. The bouquet is particularly intense from this vineyard: floral and deep fruit notes predominating. Flavours are always in the dark end of the spectrum, with pronounced secondary notes rather than simple primary fruit.

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