Jewelstone Syrah 2013, from New Zealand’s oldest winery Mission Estate, has been selected to appear at Wine Explorers’ Grand Annual Tasting 2016.
The event is a unique four-year project to take an inventory of all of the wine producing countries of the world. Now in its third year, the task has seen the Wine Explorers travel to 92 countries, visiting 250 winegrowing regions, surveying a total of 1500 vineyards and tasting over 15000 wines.
The Grand Annual Tasting 2016, held in Paris, was the culmination of the Wine Explorers 2015 travels.
The tasting was intended to showcase the Wine Explorer’s favourite wines from their travels in 2015. Only 35 wines, including two from New Zealand, were selected to appear.
120 professionals from the wine industry joined the tasting, where wines from 14 countries were represented. The idea was not to judge the wines, but to assess the potential of each of the selected wine regions and discuss the notion of terroir.
“This event was particularly poignant for us given our French heritage. It was French Marist Missionaries who established Mission Estate back in 1851. I’m sure these men never considered that their pioneering efforts would ultimately lead to a wine bearing the name Mission being showcased at such a grand event in Paris some 165 years later,” said Peter Holley, Mission Estate CEO.
Jewelstone Syrah 2013 is a single vineyard wine from Mission’s Mere Road vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels. The wine has a floral spicy nose with very sweet ripe fruit elements.