2019 vintage
April 15, 2019
Another excellent vintage
2019 vintage season was overall a warm year but started with hard frosts in September and October and ended with hard frosts in early April.
The 13 October frost during budburst was particularly hard but the vines were well protected from damage by our sprinkler frost ...
Raymond Chan
February 12, 2019
The New Zealand wine community lost some of its sparkle this week with passing of Raymond Chan after a courageous battle with cancer. (In early 2009, Raymond had a cancerous tumour surgically removed from his left parotid (saliva) gland followed by radiation and chemotherapy...
Wine tasting event tips
December 31, 2018
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Awards and reviews - 2016 Grasshopper Rock
November 28, 2018
Competition Awards
GOLD Medal 96/100 Decanter Asia Wine Awards 2018TOP100 & BLUE GOLD Medal - Sydney International Wine Competition
Decanter Asia Wine Awards 2018 – GOLD Medal & 96/100An intensely juicy fruit core of black cherry and plum with lifted exotic spi...
Climate change
November 23, 2018
Climate change - Central Otago's story
Since we established Grasshopper Rock in 2003, I have flown many times between Auckland and Queenstown. I always sit in a window seat to make the most of the high-altitude views of this beautiful country.
The flight path is usually just west of Aoraki/Mt Cook and when the we...
Our vines are 15 years old this year - here is your feedback
August 17, 2018
Grasshopper Rock's vines are now 15 years old and we have good reason to celebrate. The vines have achieved a stage of maturity where the roots have fully colonized the available space and the trunks are now thick and strong with greater resilience, deliv...
2018 vintage
February 19, 2018
Summary. An interesting and very successful season.
2017/18 was our most extreme season yet. Serious frosts in the weeks before budburst followed by unprecedented heat mid-season and finishing with a -5° C frost in mid-April. Not every year thanks!
One of the hottest ...
2006 - 2016 tasting by Raymond Chan
January 22, 2018
A vertical tasting of back vintages has provided an interesting and important insight into how well Grasshopper Rock Pinot Noir ages.
In November 2017, Raymond Chan and his partner, Sue Davies, visited Grasshopper Rock with . We drove from Queenstown and had time for a...
Pinot Celebration 2018
January 20, 2018
The Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration is the most anticipated event on the wine calendar and each year the event goes from strength to strength.
The Celebration is held in late January every year with a break every fourth year for the national pinot event.
International i...
2014 Block 6 Grasshopper Rock Pinot Noir
October 1, 2017
Limited release
This wine comes from a special part of our Earnscleugh Vineyard. With vines now over ten years old the grapes in this part of the vineyard consistently show a distinctive character which we decided to capture in 2014. The soils here are the lightest in the vineyard being san...
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