![]() Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Riesling. The company's challenge was improving consistency and yields, increasing production and maintaining quality, he said. Kudos to you for choosing wines sourced from some of the best vineyards in Oregons Willamette Valley. It had an existing market in the UK, a small market in Asia and a significant market in Australia, particularly Western Australia. ![]() Ostler was selling in North America, a new market this year. Recognition of Ostler wines had also come from the United Kingdom and Europe, Dr Jerram said. Making it commercial was the current challenge and they were ''getting there'', he said.Īs a result of Mr Kramer's endorsement, internationally renowned Italian winemaker Angelo Gaja, who has a distribution company, had taken Ostler on for distribution. Yields were variable but they always believed they could produce ''something pretty different and pretty special and we've done that'', Dr Jerram said. It was also an endorsement of the ''viticultural nous'' of his brother-in-law and winemaker Jeff Sinnott, who had always believed the valley was one of the most significant sites in New Zealand for the reasons Mr Kramer outlined - coolness and limestone - and for the hard work that everyone had put in. He said few wine lovers had heard of the Waitaki Valley, New Zealand's newest, smallest and riskiest area - climatically speaking - factors that had discouraged some of its pioneers.ĭr Jerram believed the endorsement validated 15 years' work and risk-taking. ''Frankly, I can't think of higher praise than that,'' Mr Kramer wrote. It reminded him of a fine wine from Chambolle-Musigny, a Burgundy village noted for its layered, perfumed pinot noirs redolent of the area's limestone soils. He has tasted three vintages of the Ostler Caroline's Pinot Noir (2008, 20) and, based on that, the ''stunning'' 2010 was no exception. When it came to the Ostler pinot noir, it had the ''two magic words'' that pinot noir lovers around the world valued - coolness and limestone. ![]() In the latest issue of Wine Spectator magazine, Mr Kramer singled out the four ''most illuminating wines'' he had tasted during the year. Photo by Andrew Ashton.Jim Jerram admits that establishing a vineyard in the Waitaki Valley has not been easy.īut recognition from the likes of American wine critic Matt Kramer, who recently named the Ostler Caroline's Pinot Noir 2010 as one of his wines of the year, gave him the heart to carry on, Dr Jerram said. Dr Jim Jerram is encouraged by increasing international recognition of Ostler wines. ![]()
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