Assortment Wines from New Zealand 1 Valid from March 2020 New Zealand – a country with an extraordinary image for its nature, people and high-quality wines. After having lived in New Zealand for two years, building relationships with some of the best wine producers of the country, we moved back to Germany in order to be closer to our customers. vinabonus GmbH was found in 2014 and is specialized on importing and distributing high quality and hard-to-get wines from New Zealand. New Zealand still represents a niche in most European wine markets besides the consistently high quality and unmatched flavours. This represents an excellent growth potential and point of differentiation for all channels. All wines are personally tasted and carefully selected by us. We are very pleased that we represent some of the best wineries in New Zealand. You can buy these wines easily from our warehouse near Hamburg. Why do business with us • Specialist in New Zealand wines with comprehensive knowledge of the New Zealand wine scene • High focus on customer service • Unique wines What we offer: • Exclusively imported wines from New Zealand • Broad offer of wines across the most important wine regions • Differentiation against your competition • Attractive margins Our winery partners: • High quality producers • Small to middle sized family businesses • Wines with top ratings • Sustainable winegrowing Your contact: Hilmar Naubert We are looking forward to a good business relationship with you. General Manager vinabonus GmbH [email protected] +49 561 820 39 850 Petra Naubert and Hilmar Naubert www.vinabonus.com WSET® Level 3, Award in Wines vinabonus GmbH 2 CONTENT Our Winery Partners 4 New Zealand Wine Regions 5 Special Accolades 6 Wineries and Wines Ata Rangi 8 Black Estate 10 Blank Canvas 12 Brightwater Gravels 14 Burn Cottage 16 Dry River 18 Durvillea 20 Framingham 22 Fromm Winery 25 Gibbston Valley 27 Hans Family Estate 29 Lawson‘s Dry Hills 32 Man O‘ War 34 Middle-Earth™ 37 Neudorf Vineyards 39 Palliser Estate 41 Quartz Reef 43 Rippon 45 Spy Valley Wines 47 Waimea Estate 49 Terms and conditions 51 3 OUR WINERY PARTNERS Ata Rangi Black Estate Blank Canvas Brightwater Gravels One of the cult producers of New Top winery from North Highly successful new wine label Family company since Zealand Canterbury from Marlborough generations Burn Cottage Dry River Durvillea Framingham Wines Premium Pinot Noir from Central Pioneer and cult producer from Made by one of Marlborough’s Widely considered as best Otago Martinborough top Sauvignon Blanc producers Riesling producer in NZ FROMM WINERY Gibbston Valley Hans Family Estate Lawson‘s Dry Hills Premium wines with Swiss Pinot Noir pioneer from Central Old world winemaking with New Marlborough pioneers with precision Otago Zealand fruit outstanding price-quality-ratio Man O‘ War Middle-Earth Wines Neudorf Vineyards Palliser Estate Highly decorated wines from the Elegant wines from New Considered as one of the best Great value from boutique wine island Waiheke Zealand‘s middle wineries in New Zealand Martinborough Quartz Reef Rippon Spy Valley Wines Waimea Estate Top sparkler and Pinots from Outstanding wines from one of Successful family business from Value for money with awarded Austrian wine pioneer Rudi New Zealand‘s top producers Marlborough wines Bauer 4 NEW ZEALAND WINE REGIONS Northland Auckland Man O’ War NORTH ISLAND Waikato/Bay of Plenty Gisborne Hawke‘s Bay Brightwater Gravels, Nelson Wairarapa Middle-Earth Wines, Neudorf Vineyards, Ata Rangi, Dry River, Palliser Estate Waimea Estate Marlborough Blank Canvas, Durvillea, Framingham, FROMM WINERY, Hans Family Estate, Lawson’s Dry Hills, Spy Valley SOUTH ISLAND Wines Waipara Valley / Canterbury Black Estate Wines Central Otago Burn Cottage Vineyard, Gibbston Valley, Quartz Reef, Rippon 5 SPECIAL ACCOLADES New Zealand Winery of the Year 2018 + 2019 Framingham By Bob Campbell MW New Zealand Winemaker of The Year 2019 Helen Masters, Ata Rangi By Gourmet Traveller Leadership 2019 Rudi Bauer, Quartz Reef by Gourmet Traveller “This important award goes to a man whose success as a viticulturist and winemaker and efforts as a tireless promoter of New Zealand wine in general and, in particular, Central Otago wine, has been an inspiration to others.” 6 7 ATA RANGI MARTINBOROUGH, NEW ZEALAND Ata Rangi, meaning “dawn sky” or “new beginning” in Maori is a small New Zealand winery with a renowned reputation for Pinot Noir. Located at the southern end of the North Island in the village of Martinborough, it is owned and managed by a family trio – Clive Paton, his wife Phyll and his sister Alison. Ata Rangi has an enviable reputation as one of the New World’s most respected Pinot Noir producers. Clive planted his first vines on a small, stony sheep paddock at the edge of the Martinborough village in 1980 as one of a handful of people who pioneered winegrowing in the area. Ata Rangi Pinot Noir is undoubtedly the flagship wine, and in 2010 was honoured with the inaugural Tipuranga Teitei o Aotearoa or “Grand Cru of New Zealand”. With a skilled team in place, including dynamic winemaker Helen Masters, Clive now has more time to focus on his commitment to conservation and to the Ata Rangi alliance with Project Crimson. Ata Rangi is part of the Family of Twelve. The Family of Twelve is a fraternity of twelve of New Zealand’s most prestigious and enduring artisanal wineries. Accolades: “one of the country’s very best producers.” – Bob Campbell MW "Martinborough legends Ata Rangi simply don't release wines short of the mark" – Nick Stock "Ata Rangi is the crowned king of New Zealand Pinot Noir. It has been making stunning wine for a long time” – Decanter Magazine Top 5 New Zealand winery. "When I asked winemakers to name New Zealand's greatest producers, one name kept coming up: Ata Rangi” – Robert Parker 8 Raranga Sauvignon Blanc 2018 100% Sauvignon Blanc • 2018-2023 • 12.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l 92 Parker 92 Goode Art. 1554 Crimson Pinot Noir 2017 100% Pinot Noir • 2019-2027 • 13% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l 93 Suckling 93 Goode Art. 1525 94 Wine Orbit Ata Rangi founder ClivePaton’s tree-planting work at the family Bush Block inspired the idea for Crimson, a younger vines Pinot Noir sold in support of the work of Project Crimson. Project Crimson was founded in 1990 with the idea of creating a community-based project to help pohutukawa, a national tree that had almost entirely disappeared in many areas along the west coast of New Zealand. In 1996 another endangered national tree, the rata, was included into the project. Pinot Noir 2016 100% Pinot Noir • 2019-2026+ • 13% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l 99 Wine Orbit 98 Suckling Art. 1416 94 Parker 5 stars (19.5) Chan McCrone Pinot Noir 2016 100% Pinot Noir • 2019-2026+ • 13.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l Available from June 2020 96 Suckling Art. 1679 9 BLACK ESTATE NORTH CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND Black Estate is a family owned winery in Waipara, North Canterbury with three north-facing hillside vineyards with clay and a diverse range of limestone soils. Owned and run by Nicholas Brown and Pen Naish Black Estate wish to capture the truest expression of each site's character in the bottle so to make wine that is truly original and memorable. 1. Home: The slope is a north facing sedimentary clay fan on a gentle hill side slope. The soils are mainly Awapuni clay loam with calcium carbonate deposits. 2. Damsteep: lay overlying fractured limestone and sandstone soils. 3. Netherwood: Waipara Greensand (green grey richly glauconitic sandstone) Rooted in Rudolf Steiner teachings, Black Estate sees each of the three vineyards in a holistic way. All the elements that make up the vineyards are considered, and how they interact and make one healthy, vital whole. The vines, fields, forests, animals, plants, soils, compost, people and the spirt of the place are equally important. When all considered, the sites can build their own sustaining natural rhythms. Black Estate is one of the region‘s top producers and runs one of the best winery restaurants in the country. Accolades: One of Waipara’s top Pinot producers & Top Wineries of New Zealand 2018 & 2019 – Bob Campbell MW “The single standout wine was a Chardonnay (New Zealand’s strongest suit, in my view), the 2016 from the Home Vineyard of Black Estate in North Canterbury” – Jancis Robinson MW One of New Zealand’s finest pinot noirs producer – Matthew Jukes & Tyson Stelzer 10 Damsteep Riesling 2018 100% Riesling • 2019-2025 • 13.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l • RS 4,9 g/l 93 Suckling 93 Douglas MS Art. 1687 94 Campbell MW Young Vines Chardonnay 2018 100% Chardonnay • 2018-2022 • 13% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l Art. 1686 Home Chardonnay 2018 100% Chardonnay • 2019-2022+ • 13.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l 94 Douglas MS 92 Suckling Art. 1684 94 Campbell MW Treble Pinot Noir 2018 100% Pinot Noir • 2019-2022 • 12.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l Art. 1688 Damsteep Pinot Noir 2017 100% Pinot Noir • 2018-2025 • 12.5% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l l 95 Campbell MW 95 Douglas MS Art. 1689 Home Pinot Noir 2017 100% Pinot Noir • 2019-2025 • 12% vol • contains sulphites • 0.75l 95 Douglas MS 94 Campbell MW Art. 1690 94 Suckling 11 BLANK CANVAS MARLBOROUGH, NEW ZEALAND Husband and wife team challenging winemaking orthodoxy creating single vineyard, small batch wines that are both interesting and delicious. Winemaker and international wine consultant Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. With 50 vintages and 27 years of winemaking around the globe, Matt Thomson is one of the world’s high profile flying winemaker.