Our 2016 Summerhouse Chardonnay has won the Champion Commercial White Wine trophy at the New Zealand International Wine Show 2017. Check out what they had to say below: "Toasty on the nose, creamy and mellow in the palate of this soft uncluttered … [Read more...]
Cuisine Magazine: Summerhouse Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Top 10
Cuisine Magazine recommends the 2016 vintage of our Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with 5 Stars. They also name it a Top 10 wine with an official 3rd place ranking. Summerhouse Sauvignons are a perennial delight. This new release is typically clean, … [Read more...]
5 Stars & Top 10: Cuisine Magazine Sauvignon Blanc
Summerhouse Sauvignon Blanc 2015: A racy, clean minerally expression, an outstanding match to a warm goat’s cheese salad. Michael Cooper’s New Zealand Wine Guide: Mouth-filling, crisp and vibrantly fruity, with good intensity of melon, lime and … [Read more...]
Bob Campbell: Summerhouse Wines 92 Points
Summerhouse Sauvignon Blanc 2014 : Ripe, fleshy Sauvignon Blanc with tree fruit/nectarine, melon and ripe grapefruit flavours. Quite a concentrated wine with reasonably soft acidity and a lingering finish. 92 Points. Summerhouse Pinot Noir 2013 : … [Read more...]
Bob Campbell MW; June-July Top 100 New Releases 2014
Full flavoured Chardonnay with white peach, grapefruit, cashew nut and spice / anise flavours. Appealing fruit sweetness is balanced by fruity acidity to give a pleasantly drying and lengthy finish. … [Read more...]
Raymond Chan: Summerhouse Monarch Sauvignon Blanc
The bouquet is full, powerful and deeply packed with aromas of savoury and spicy green stone-fruits and complex nutty and smoky barrel-ferment layers, revealing the beginnings of secondary pea and bean nuances. Dry to taste and full bodied, bold … [Read more...]
Decanter World Wine Awards 2014
Summerhouse Pinot Noir 2013: A definite crowd-pleaser, this is rich in flavour and concentration, overflowing with cherries, plums, spice and pleasing soft tannins on the palate. There are lots of vanilla and herb aromas to speak of and an excellent … [Read more...]
4 Stars for our 2013 Pinot Noir from Cuisine Magazine
Adding to the already impressive list of accolades, our 2013 Summerhouse Marlborough Pinot Noir has been awarded 4 Stars by Cuisine Magazine. Of a total of 180 wines, John Belsham and his panel awarded 13 x 5-star, 10 x 41/2-star and 32 x 4-star … [Read more...]