Brick Bay Wines Rose 2008 Review

It is a hot and sunny Summer's evening and we decided Rose was appropriate to drink this evening. We had a Brick Bay Wines Rose 2008 in the fridge from our trip to the vineyard in Matakana last year when we did the walk at the Brick Bay sculpture park (see Jane's writeup here).

This is a beautiful Apricot-Pink coloured Rose which tastes more alcoholic than its 12.5%. To the nose it is a big Rose and the taste is equally big. This has a medium-long tail and is reasonably dry (although not excessively so).

It took me a while to pinpoint what I was tasting, but I think the best way to describe it is that it is predominatly compromised of an alcohlic Mandarin flavour.

This is great to drink on its own and is quite complex for a Rose. We would buy this again. Easy drinking.

Glorious Spring Day, Brick Bay

It was the most splendid day today, glorious blue skys and soft looking fluffy white clouds! We took the opportunity to visit Brick Bay vineyard and Sculpture Trail. What a fabulous place! For starters, it is always a pleasure driving up North, getting away from Auckland and into the midst of lush green fields and kiwi bush.

Brick Bay itself is a beautiful, peaceful destination and beats nature trails in that you're not just walking for the sake of it and with a single goal of getting to the end.

Rather, you have little spots of interest all along the way and the need to keep you wits about you to spot (or in one instance, hear) the various installments. We enjoyed their Vineyard Platter for a very late lunch at about 3pm. How unlike us!