www.highlands.co.nz<\/a>), before a brilliant tasting looking at all the Pinot Noirs that Wooing Tree have produced to date (2005 was the first vintage here). Then it was off to Bendigo, to visit Folding Hill with Tim Kerruish.<\/p>\n![\"OLYMPUS](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/P1280440-001.jpg\")
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Tim is a medic, an ex-pat Brit, who is based in Dunedin. His 4 hectare vineyard is beautifully situated and he’s making some pretty serious wines in relatively small quantities. Once again, we looked at all the Pinots ever made here, going back to 2007.<\/p>\n
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The 2012 regular Pinot and the 2011 Orchard Block (from a special part of the vineyard next to Tim’s\u00a0small\u00a0cider apple\u00a0orchard) were mind-blowingly good.<\/p>\n
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Next\u00a0up, Mount\u00a0Difficulty, one of the larger producers in the region, with Matt Dicey (above). They’re in the Bannockburn sub-district, and we had a look\u00a0at the\u00a0Long Gully vineyard, planted in 1992, as well as heading up to their\u00a0irrigation pond for a view across the whole of Bannockburn. In terms of tasting, we once again went back in time to 2007: the regular\u00a0Pinot is ageing in a beautifully elegant, linear direction. The Long Gully 2008 and 2011 were sensationally good, as was the Growers Series Packspur Vineyard 2011, from a high vineyard in Lowburn.<\/p>\n
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And Lowburn was the site of the next visit. Lowburn Ferry is the vineyard owned by Roger and Jean Gibson. We tried all the Pinots to date, back to 2003. They have aged beautifully, with\u00a02003 and 2005 (2004 was frosted so no wine) in really good shape. Of recent vintages, 2010, 2012 and\u00a02013 (a barrel sample) were all superb.<\/p>\n
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The wines are\u00a0made by Peter\u00a0Bartle(pictured above)\u00a0at VinPro, one of the two large contract winemaking facilities in the region. This is another interesting story about Central: the availability of top quality contract winemaking has really helped with quality here. The evening saw an informal gathering at Wooing Tree, with several local winemakers joining\u00a0a bunch of international guests for a spot\u00a0of dinner. Pictured below is Denis Marshall of Hawkshead together with Becky Potez who is with Prophet’s Rock.<\/p>\n
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