RiversideWines.co.nz
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Riverside Wines
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About
Riverside wines is a family owned and operated business with vineyards and a winery situated in the Dartmoor Valley wine growing area of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
The Cadwalladers planted the first vineyard in the early 1980s as part of their mixed farming operation. The winery was established in 1989 and has been in a state of growth ever since. The first grape crush consisted of five tons of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes and now the 2004 vintage is poised to crush around 135 tons of both red and white varieties. While this is an astronomical increase the winery production will still be regarded as "boutique".
Over the years the focus in the vineyards has changed from being a grower producing a crop for someone else to process into wine to specifically training particular grapes in separate vineyards for particular wines. The vineyard workers have always practiced Integrated Winegrape Production (IWP).
