Production Technology Sparkling Wines Alternative Styles Steve Voysey Consultant Winemaker Spade Oak Vineyard Gisborne
Alternative Styles
• Jewels from the past • Lindauer • Trends • Inspiration • Prosecco
Alternative Styles of the past? Lindauer over 15 variants
What’s Trending • Convenience • Premiumisation – • The rise and rise of a global trend • Wellness • Innovation • Blurred category lines • PROSECCO • Declining sparkling NZ. • Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Cava,
Glera offers alternative Styles • Anglo-Saxon drinkers are more open to innovation and particular twists than Italians they like to experiment • 16 Pounds per bottle , 675,000 pound sales in US first year ,launched in NZ $25 to well over $250k in 6mths this year. • 7% alc, 4.1 Ta, 3.07 pH, 77RS,+ saccharine + peach,+ blue curacao, E133 and natural grape anthocyanins, Glera from outside prosecco verbally promoted as “prosecco and wine”. A World of styles to inspire
Crémant is a sparkling wine that can be produced in several areas of France such as Limoux, Loire and Burgundy. This particular sparkling wine is created in the same traditional method as Champagne and has a flavour that can vary depending on the type of grape it is made with.
What’s Hot
Some Ideas
• Embrace your regional sparkling “Cremant“ • Pet Nat SBL • Make Fruit wine craft • A real Blue wine it is actually possible • Formats cans • Magnums and small both relevant • Bottle in market sparkling • NZ Glera Glera or Prosecco
• Visit wine Australia https://www.wineaustralia.com/news/articles/prosecco- what-is-the-deal for the best description of the situation Ive seen. • Veneto Italy has been granted GI Status in EU, by changing gape variety name to Glera, so wines produced in Prosecco can be labelled Prosecco. • Australia has challenged this in world court and won on the basis that it has been growing prosecco as the variety since World War 1, So prosecco may only be used to describe the Variety on Labels on wines except in EU, China, Japan, Canada, South Africa, Chile , Vietnam .. The list is growing.. • NZ has imported the Glera clone VCR101 from Australia and is operating under the Australian license • NZ and Australia are under EU free trade pressure to relinquish the right to use Prosecco to describe the variety. http://www.drinksbulletin.com.au/latest- news?Page=20&Article=eu-prepares-to-fight-australian-use-of-prosecco
Australia (Wine Australia, king valley regional snapshot , Tyson Stelzer Sparkling wine report, Trina Smith Jacobs Creek Group Wine and Sparkling Winemaker)
• Wine Australia • King valley • 3100 Tonnes prosecco 3-3.5M bottles • Grapes $1100/ T not a light cropper 10-30 T/Ha • Export to NZ 30 % so could be up to 77,000 cases • Tyson Stelzer’s 2018 Sparkling wine report • Sparkling Australia’s fastest growing category • Prosecco trebled in last 3 years ($60 Million predicted to hit $200M) • Total Australian sparkling exports at $600 M (NZ and China are a big part of this) • Australian Prosecco Grew 50% last year NZ prosecco
• Clone VCR101 • Droopy Muscat like twiggy growth • Early 2018 Harvested 22 nd Feb 2018 • 18.9 Bx, 9 TA,6.6 Malic, 3.3pH
THE PROSECCO NZ PEOPLE SUSAN • B.Sc. Molecular Biology WHEELER • PhD Viticulture & Oenology • Director- Hop Revolution • Genetic scientist • Horticultural scientist • Organic horticultural consultant
Nothing is safe from innovation or change
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For those seeking the full prosecco-flavoured fare this festive season, Aldi shoppers can also pick up prosecco, cranberry and orange cocktail sausages, prosecco and peach panettone and honeycomb with prosecco sugar.
Prosecco, Has lodged rule change to allow Rose Prosecco The End