Surveyor Thomson
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Our friends at surveyor Thompson have produced a first rate wine in 2010 after a fine warm summer and early autumn. It displays an attractive medium deep colour, some lovely spice here, with thyme and rosemary notes. Juicy fruit in the middle, some savoury elements adding texture to the back, long and concentrated.
The grapes were hand picked into six very distinct lots and fermented separately.35% whole bunch on average for texture and extraction of more tannin. Indigenous yeast was used to ferment the wines to dryness the wines were hand plunged three times a day. The wines spent a total of 29 days on skins on average, to extract structure, colour, aromatics and finesse. Maturation took place in 225 litre French oak barriques of which around 35% were new 3 year air dried French oak and the remainder one and two years older.
The grapes were hand picked into six very distinct lots and fermented separately.35% whole bunch on average for texture and extraction of more tannin. Indigenous yeast was used to ferment the wines to dryness the wines were hand plunged three times a day. The wines spent a total of 29 days on skins on average, to extract structure, colour, aromatics and finesse. Maturation took place in 225 litre French oak barriques of which around 35% were new 3 year air dried French oak and the remainder one and two years older.
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Surveyor Thomson belongs to the Hong Kong based couple. David Hall-Jones and PM Chan. The property is named for David’s great-great-grandfather, New Zealand's first Surveyor General, John Turnbull Thomson, commonly known as Mr Surveyor Thomson.
During 1857 and early 1858 Surveyor Thomson carried out a marathon reconnaissance survey of Otago, covering the whole province on horseback in a series of sweeps that took him as far west as the Waiau River and as far north as Mt Cook. He explored the Waitaki River to its source at the head of Lake Pukaki, and crossed and named the Lindis Pass, called after Lindisfarne Island near his original home.
The 14ha vineyard's gentle slopes overlooking Pisa Moorings lakeside settlement have been planted as four distinct blocks – the North Block, the Terraces, the South Block and the Moon Block - each with its own special characteristics. The mixture of Davis and Dijon pinot noir clones, first planted in 2000 are on elevated north east facing terraces in deep gravel with some loess and clay. The relatively frost free, warm mesoclimate and free draining soils provide ideal grape growing conditions, producing an excellent concentration and intensity of flavours.
Under the guidance of local viticulturist, Grant Rolston, the vineyard practises biodynamic viticulture and is a working on full biodynamic certification. The wines are made by prominent local winemaker, Dean Shaw of the Central Otago Wine Company.