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Introducing.. Chef Sander from Karaka Cuisine explores wine matching... with a twist! How about cherries roasted in Pinot Noir, drizzled over Hazelnut Torte? Put this with the Tupari Pinot Noir and enjoy the flavour fusion - spice, cherries, a rich & creamy taste sensation! Chocolate Hazelnut Torte with Pinot Roasted Cherries Ingredients 400 gm Sugar 400 gm Butter 400 gm Roasted & Shelled Hazelnuts 400 gm Chocolate  10 x Eggs Method Cream the Sugar with the Soft Butter Add the Melted Chocolate Stir in the Eggs Fold through the Hazelnuts Bake for approximately 75 minutes on 150°C Let cool down properly and...

Autumn is here. Our grapes are currently going through a process where they change from hard green inedible shapes to something that starts to resemble the soft fleshy grapes that you are most familiar with. This process is called Veraison which is French for the onset of ripening. It is also the time when the red varieties like Pinot Noir begin to colour up. As the season advances the berries will get heavier as the sugar concentration increases and the acid levels decrease. This is when the magic begins! At the moment the berries are not edible, but as the...

This time of the year as the weather starts to warm up the shoots are growing very quickly. As the shoots get longer the small unfertilised flowers that appear as miniature bunches of grapes become easier to see. It’s possible to count them to get a potential estimate of the amount of fruit we may get at harvest however nothing is certain until after flowering which is in a few weeks time when the flowers start to become berries.Spring & Summer in Marlborough is all about bud burst and the vine growth. This is the beginning of a sequence of...

We are just starting to get the emergence of this season’s shoots which will create a sea of green across the vineyard. A sure sign spring is here. The Tupari vineyard site is a unique, it has it’s own specific mesoclimate created by the geographical location. What does this mean? It means our site produces wines with distinctive characteristics! This year the start of spring was slightly cooler than last year which delays the bud burst. In turn this affects the ripening and ultimately the flavors our grapes produce, so when we say out site is unique, we mean exactly...