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Winestate Wine of the Year Awards 2011 - Trophy has been won!
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Kereru Road Merlot Cabernet 2009
Our Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Merlot Cabernet 2009 has been named the Merlot of the year in the 2011 Winestate Wine of the Year Awards, beating over 1,500 other wines in this category. Our Hawke's Bay blend was awarded the Transtherm Trophy with the judges commenting that the wine was "powerful, fleshy, very rich and supple, deliciously lush and smooth with ripe blackcurrant, plum and spice flavours."

Other Winestate awards for our Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection range are:

5 STARS - Kereru Road Vineyard Chardonnay 2010 

4.5 STARS - Mere Road Vineyard Gimblett Gravels Cabernet Franc 2009

4 STARS - Elms Vineyard Gimblett Gravels Syrah 2009

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Glengarry Wines (NZ) 23 June 2011
Crossroads Winery Hawkes Bay Syrah 2009
Syrah is not the sort of wine you can load up with oak, you have to show some restraint. It's more like making Pinot,” says Miles. Crossroads aim for a supple, mid-weight style, rather than “hanging the grapes out to get 80% shrivel to make a really concentrated wine. We just don't like that style.” This has an alluring nose of spice, flowers and dark berryfruits, is plummy and violet-touched. There's some toast right at the back, while the palate displays sweet fruit in a feminine, floral and very attractive style. Gorgeous texture, easy flowing with gently nudging tannins keeping it to a straight course.

Crossroads Winery Chardonnay 2010
Through nectarine and peach flavours, the oak shows itself texturally rather than overtly, although some toastiness carries the fruit to a charming end. Texturally it's silken and full, a billowing kite of hedonistic delight.
 
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Cabernet Franc 2009
Cocoa/dark chocolate comes through, the oak a subtle shading of the fruit. That fruit surges through on the backbone of tannin, finishing almost sweet & shortcakey, embraced by toast.
 
Winestate Magazine Recent Release Reviews September/October 2011
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Kereru Road Vineyard Chardonnay 2010
Five Stars
Robust wine with arresting power.  Very full-bodied, with deep, vibrant peach, pear and spice flavours, a hint of butterscotch, and a rich, creamy finish.  Notably concentrated, complex and harmonious.  Lovely wine, already approachable. 
 
San Francisco International Wine Competition June 2011
Crossroads Winery Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2010
Gold Medal
 
Harpers Wine and Spirit Trades Review 3rd June 2011
Crossroads Winery Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010
The wine is from the Kereru Road Vineyard in the Mangatahi region on the banks of the Ngaruroro River, (try pronouncing that after a couple of glasses). Just a tiny proportion (5%) is barrel fermented to give the wine a little weight and mouthfeel to balance the refreshing and zippy acidity, made possible by the cool climate of the vineyard area in the otherwise very warm Hawkes Bay. Please with the results, winemaker Miles Dinneed says: ‘In the winery some of the individual batches were whole-bunch pressed for some very fine juice, while a smaller portion was fermented, with ambient yeasts, in older French barriques. The young wine spent the winter on light less with occasional stirring to further the palate’s texture.”
 
Decanter May 2011
Crossroads Winery Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010
‘The first vintage of this wine. Solid and intense with round, ripe fruit, and a hint of oak giving a nice mouthfeel. Part-fermented in oak to give a little more texture and body.’
 
Winestate Magazine Recent Release Reviews May/June 2011
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Kereru Road Vineyard Merlot/Cabernet 2009
Five Stars
Strapping Hawke's Bay blend (15% alc/vol), muscular but not heavy, with dense, ripe blackcurrant, plum and spice flavours, French oak complexity and buried tannins.    Powerful, fleshy, very rich and supple, in a youthful, supercharged style, deliciously lush and smooth.
 
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Mere Road Vineyard Gimblett Gravels Cabernet Franc 2009
Four and a half Stars
Powerful red (15% alc/vol), still unfolding.   Dark, mouthfilling and silky-textured, with concentrated blackcurrant, red berry and spice flavours to the fore, and hints of coffee and nuts adding complexity.  Deliciously rich, savoury and smooth red, likely to be long-lived.
 
Crossroads Winery Vineyard Selection Elms Vineyard Gimblett Gravels Syrah 2009
Four Stars
Youthful, medium to full-bodied style with floral, plum and black pepper aromas.  Full-coloured, with strongly varietal flavours and a finely textured, distinctly spicy finish.  Elegant and flowing.

Talisman 2008 reviewed by Lady Parker (NZ), March 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hg4aIki4to&feature=player_embedded#

Crossroads Winery Hawkes Bay Syrah 2008 reviewed by Lady Parker (NZ), March 2010

http://www.youtube.com/user/ladyparkerwinereview#p/a/u/2/df4VGJp1AF0

Air New Zealand Wine Awards (NZ) November 2009

mocha-tinged toasty oak and lemon zest carry through the finish. Drink now through 2009. —D.S.

Wine Spectator (USA) May 2008