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Our Harvest 2018 is complete, wines are maturing in the winery and we are celebrating the end of an extraordinary season.  It started early - no spring frosts to fight – not one sleep-deprived night!!   It continued apace and  the pressure to keep up was relentless.   December and January...

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 May 2017 Well it started off OK in the spring - until 'fruit set', when the good old N-Westerly winds picked up and gave the vines a bit of a battering.  Generally much of summer was on the cool side until lovely warm days and cool nights in autumn made...

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October 2016    We have just released our 2016 Rosé which is fully certified organic.  This year we had a slightly shorter skin contact of 24 hours which has given the wine a lovely delicate pink hue and still those delicious red berry flavours.   The wine was nurtured in...

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October 2016     Caroline Davies puts out a sumptuous quarterly online read incorporating the lifestyle, culture and landscapes of Dunedin and Otago.  We felt privileged to be included in this publication, alongside the likes of David Howard, Maggie Holmes, Rachel Bailey, John Howell and other numerous talents.   Something caught Thomo's...

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September 2016     We were delighted that both our wines entered into this year’s Bragato Wine Show won awards.  TOSQ Flora ‘Entwined’2015 , our 'orange-hued’ ‘natural’ wine was awarded Silver and TOSQ Pinot Gris 2014 Bronze.  These awards are specifically for Estate Grown and Single Vineyard wines.   Entwined is...

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May 2016   Snoop Dogg's "blood and bone" contribution to the compost and pest control!      

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April 2016       This season had its challenges early on with cold weather and strong winds in the spring, but fantastic weather through flowering gave us a great fruit set.  Extremely dry conditions followed producing clean fruit with excellent concentration.   Harvest was pretty relaxed with no weather pressures...

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April 2016     We are delighted that TOSQ Wines has received full Biogro Organic status for its Pinot Noir Terrace Vineyard and is in "Organic Conversion" for its Pinot Gris Roadside Vineyard.  Making the transition to organics is not for the faint-hearted, however once the change in thinking is made,...

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Jan 2016   Hot!  So much so that Sue set the vineyard irrigation and the TOSQ crew took to the mountains for Christmas and established a base camp west of Wanaka (the great Matuki Valley) to spend time cooling off in mountain streams.  The Taste and Savour crew joined us...

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October 2015    TOSQ Wines is taking part in the inaugural "Down to Earth" event.  Down to Earth is a celebration of wine in New Zealand’s Central Otago region, that runs from Saturday 24 October to Wednesday 4 November 2015. TOSQ, as part of Artisan Winegrowers of Central Otago is hosting various...

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September 2015      We will have our TOSQ Entwined 2014 available for tastings in Auckland at the New Zealand Boutique Wine Festival on Sunday, 14th June 2015.   Like its predecessor, this wine has been made without additions of any kind. The indigenous yeasts have just been left to go...

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June 2015     Our best Olive Harvest yet!  Thanks to our wonderful picking crew Kris, Antony, Margie, Mallory and Irvine (aka Malaury and Arthur) - plus Sal and Georgie on day 2.  Just waiting for the oil to settle now before splurging it over salads!

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October 2013    We are delighted to have received a “90” score for our TOSQ Pinot Noir 2010 from Allen Meadows Burghound “There is a subtle application of wood on the spicy and floral inflected dark berry fruit aromas.  There is impressive richness and good verve to the attractively well-detailed...

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   “The nose is fresh and bright with clean and aromatic aromas of raspberries and cream, red cherries, hints of fruit pastilles and red florals.  Dry to off-dry in taste and medium-bodied, bright, crunchy and lifted raspberry and cream fruit flavours show with a delicate juiciness. Some confectionary nuances add...

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  Entwined is our first ‘natural wine’ – a wine-making response to our organic management of the vineyard, and the particular characteristics of this unusual grape, where we feel much of its intrigue lies locked up in the skins. This wine has had no additions of any kind in the...

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March 2014    As part of Artisan Winegrowers of Central Otago, we have just had great fun hosting Bob Campbell.  During his stay we were able to introduce him to each of our individual sites as well as having a couple of very engaging evenings.  Central Otago is particularly picturesque at...

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March 2014     March the 27th was our first day of harvesting Pinot Noir this year – more than a week ahead of previous years.  The Pinot Gris followed on March the 30th.  We still have the Flora to bring in which is usually about two weeks later than...

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September 2013  Jane Skilton MW has published a series of articles relating to her visit with us as part of Artisan Winegrowers of Central Otago. Click here to read Jane's reviews of TOSQ wines in the Independent Wine Monthly

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August 2013    As part of "Artisan Winegrowers of Central Otago”, we have been very fortunate to have recently had a visit from Jane Skilton MW and Emma Jenkins MW.  Two very approachable and “fun to be with” women with a fund of knowledge.   We were able to show...

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New Zealand Fashion Quarterly Entertaining has recommended TOSQ Pinot Gris 2011, Click Image above for a full article  read more.

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 We have recently become part of a small group of Central Otago wine producers, called “Artisan Winegrowers of Central Otago”. We are all friends who get on well together and who are out there getting our hands dirty doing the work in our vineyards. We see benefit in joining forces...

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