Sandihurst Winery and Wines - Christchurch, Canterbury Vineyard - Award winning Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Celia — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:53:02 +0000

‘ tis the season… We’ll be closed from 24th December until 9th January 2012. Cellar Door re-opens for tastings and sales from 9th January 2012.

We plan on having a wonderful time with our family and friends and we would like to wish each and everyone the same – have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!

From all of us here at Sandihurst – thanks for the past and looking forward to the future!

If Music be the food of love…..

Celia — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:38:08 +0000

Then wine is its perfect partner, but choose well...
A new study reveals wine drinkers should also consider what’s playing on their stereo if they want the perfect tipple. The study shows that people who drink wine while listening to music perceive the wine to have the same taste characteristics of the particular artist.
The research published in the British Journal of Psychology found that for the best earthy and full-bodied Merlot taste experience, drinkers should try listening to Tom Jones. Or to add a little zing to a glass of Pinot Gris pull out the latest Lady Gaga album.
250 students – half male, half female took part in the study. They were given either Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay and played one of four songs on loop for 15 minutes picked for their contrasting musical characteristics.
After five minutes the volunteers were asked to rank how much they felt the wine tasted like the musical descriptions: powerful and heavy, subtle and refined, mellow and soft, zingy and refreshing. The results showed the music the volunteers listened to consistently affected how they perceived it to taste..

Read the full article on The Telegraph

Cool Climate Wine Making

Celia — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:45:26 +0000

Cool Climate wine making on a seriously cool scale! For the first time in 3 years we had snow down to sea level on Monday bringing an already crippled Christchurch to a stand still. To take a quote from Tiana (phonetic) from the Campbell Live television show it was the ‘Icing on the Quake’!

Cellar Door Closed – May 21st

Celia — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:52:43 +0000

As we will be particpating in the TEDxEQChCh event on Saturday 21st May, unfortunately the Cellar Door will be closed that day. Normal hours 11am to 5pm resume on Sunday 22nd May.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

TEDxEQchch

Celia — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:45:22 +0000

Sandihurst once again is proud to be one of the sponsors at this year’s TEDxEQChCh event. Taking place this Saturday 21st May at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High School, the focus for this special event: The Re-Imagination of Christchurch. This one-day event is focused entirely on the future of the city and features speakers like Art Agnos, the former Mayor of San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Cameron Sinclair , co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, Grant Ryan the creator of YikBike returns to speak again this year, to name only a few of the mazing line up of speakers. For more information on how you can particiapte vist the TEDxEQChCh website.

Happy Easter

Celia — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:06:17 +0000

Happy Easter to All.
Cellar Door News – Liquor Licence restrictions require that the Sandihurst Cellar Door must be closed on Friday 22nd April, Sunday 24th April and Monday 25th April. Because of this we have also decided to remain closed on Saturday 23rd. Vintage work however continues throughout the weekend!
Cellar Door will back to normal on Tuesday 26th April.

Christchurch Earthquake Appeal

Celia — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:05:26 +0000

The New Zealand Government has launched an appeal to help all those affected by the devastating earthquake on 22nd Feb.

The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal is a global fundraiser and the appeal has the full force of the New Zealand Government behind it. It is designed to complement appeals and fundraisers already being run by established organisations.

Your support for Christchurch is a part of a global response, thank you.

Cellar Door Closed – Sat 26th Feb & Sun 27th Feb

Celia — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:49:22 +0000

Given the tragedy in Christchurch, as well as the fact that we need to see to family members in Lyttelton, the Cellar Door will be closed on Saturday 26th Feb and Sunday 27th Feb. We will re-open on Monday 28th Feb, normal hours 11am to 5pm.

Cork Shoes and The Grammys

Celia — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:59:10 +0000

The Grammy awards joined up with ReCORK this year, a cork recycling organization (video of Muse – Best Rock Band album). Only wines sealed with natural corks were served during the awards ceremony, and all corks pulled at the event went to be recycled. The discarded Grammy corks will go to SOLE, a Canadian company that specializes in footwear made from cork. How about that, you could wear shoes that came from a Grammy winner’s bottle of wine!

Wine labels to include nutrition information?

Celia — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:28:18 +0000

There has been a lot of talk from Australia to the USA about alcohol companies being the next in line to be required to display nutritional information on their packaging for beer, wine and spirits.

Federal and state food ministers in Australia have already received a long-awaited report about the proposed changes to the labelling laws in Australia. The report recommends an end to an exemption for alcohol companies to avoid listing nutritional information on their products. It follows concern that consumers are often unaware of the high energy and sugar content of alcohol products.

The argument is that alcohol should be effectively regulated as a ”food”, because its energy concentration is second only to fat.

The calorie content for two glasses of wine is more or less equivalent to a doughnut – 185 cals. A bottle of wine would be approximately 500 calories.