NELSON FAMILY TOPS PINOT NOIR CONTEST Talk to NZMS Scientific today about BRETT risk management P 09 259 4062 E nzms@nzms.co.nz W www.nzms.co.nz Now detects Pediococcus Lactobacillus 1.Smith MT. 2011. Brettanomyces Kufferath & van Laer 1921. In The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study. See Kurtzman et al. 2011, pp. 983-86. 2.Mitrakul MC, Henick-Kling T, Egli CM. 1999. Discrimination of Brettanomyces/Dekkera yeast isolates from wine by using various DNA fingerprinting methods. Food Microbiol. 16:3- 14. 3.Zuehlke JM, Petrova B, Edwards CG. 2013. Advances in the control of wine spoilage by Zygosaccharomyces bailii and Dekkera/ Brettanomyces. Annu. Rev. Food Sci. Technol. 4:57-78. www.foodtechnology.co.nz 47 Out of the 5 known species of Brettanomyces1 only Brettanomyces bruxellensis is associated with wine spoilage.1,2,3 TEST ONSITE IN LESS THAN 4 HOURS Now available for Pediococcus and Lactobacillus vinoBRETT is the only test specific for Brettanomyces bruxellensis which means you’ll only test positive if your wine is at risk. www.pros.co.nz Coming soon to PACIFIC RIM Blenheim OENOLOGY SERVICES 9000 577 - 03 FT043 A Nelson family winery has beaten the world to win a gold medal and best-inshow at one of Europe’s prestigious wine competitions...surpassing no less than a mere 8000 competitors from 40 wine-producing countries to do so. Blackenbrook Vineyard, which wowed judges at the Mundus Vini Grand International Wine Awards earlier this month, won the Best-in-Show for New Zealand red wine for its 2014 Family Reserve pinot noir, and says the win was a great accomplishment for the winery. However, the family always knew the grapes were special, noting them as particularly exciting the day they picked them, Blackenbrook co-owner Ursula Schwarzenbach says. “When we picked the grapes, my husband Daniel was excited with the quality, always maintaining that this would be the best pinot noir so far produced at Blackenbrook – it’s great to see his gut feeling was right,” she says. Mundus Vini judges are extremely tough and being awarded a gold is a very significant achievement,” Schwarzenbach says. “It was also good to see Nelson pinot noir being recognised as a superior wine.” Held in Germany, the awards were judged by a panel of 150 wine connoisseurs from around the world, and Schwarzenbach says winning in Germany is particularly important to the company because it sees the country as a key export market for its wines. “This accolade will help our German importers to build a premium reputa- tion for our wines,” she says. The Schwarzenbachs carefully selected 20ha of land in Tasman, halfway between Nelson and the Abel Tasman National Park, planted vines and made their first wine release in 2004. They say their aim is to remain reasonably small and true, “stay physically in control and put our own stamp on every single bottle of Blackenbrook wine.” Twenty New Zealand wines received medals at the Mundus Vini awards, which was founded in 2001.
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