With our young olive trees above The Glass House now also in production, the amount of fruit harvested this season was a record for us here at Brick Bay. We should now be able to maintain supplies of our delicious extra-virgin olive oil for many months.
Available now in The Glass House and online, the 2016 vintage continues the tradition of our Brick Bay Olive Oil, having a distinctive green colour, with an elegant buttery palate and a restrained peppery finish.
The 2015 Brick Bay Pinot Gris offers you another stunning Pinot Gris in the established Brick Bay tradition of elegantly pure fruit flavours, lifted aromatics and a long satisfying finish.
Hand-harvested in perfect condition from our 21 year-old vines, a shimmering straw colour, this wine shows layered floral aromas of white lily and jasmine, summer berries and pear. The sumptuous midpalate is nicely balanced with concentrated kiwifruit, nashi pear and braeburn apple notes leading through to a satisfying crisp and clean finish.
What a rollercoaster of a vintage so far! A mixed bag of wind, rain, humidity and loads of sunshine for good measure..…a real test of our viticultural skills. So how do we handle such challenging conditions?
Healthy vines are more able to withstand the pressures of disease, an open canopy exposes the grapes to sunshine and wind movement, and only quality bunches are harvested.
To date, we now have both our blocks of Pinot Gris safely in the winery, clean, fragrant fruit to produce our classic varietal. And….yes, the word is out – our first small crop of Chardonnay! Possibly only 50 cases, but we’re super excited about this new addition to the Brick Bay stable of fine wines.
The long-awaited! The last release of our premium red blend from Brick Bay was the 2010 vintage, but finally we can announce the release of the magnificent 2013 Pharos.
This deep crimson wine is an enticing blend of Petit Verdot, Malbec and Merlot. Earthy and floral aromas slowly lead into ripe dark summer stonefruit, liquorice and berries with hints of vanilla, star anise, cedar and chocolate. The palate, very tight and powerful, displays an intense core threaded through with dense velvety tannins, fine, bright fruit and a sturdy structure.
With only 242 cases made, this will indeed be a wine to treasure.
The philosophy behind the Brick Bay Sculpture Trust Folly Project is to support young emerging architects and to push the boundaries between sculpture and architecture. We're pleased to announce that the 2016 winners are: Ryan Mahon, Sacha Milojevic, Edward Roberts & Raphaela Rose with their stunning work, Daughter of the Swamp.
Defining a Folly as an architectural object that lacks a deliberate functional purpose, the 2016 winners have referenced the historic hinaki or eel trap and the legend of Maui who was first to catch the long eel, with his wife Hina, the Daughter of The Swamp.
Seemingly like a building envelope but, adhering to the traditions of the Folly, it provides no practical protection, only spatial definition. Instead it offers an interface between you and the surrounding landscape that is observed through gaps in the brightly coloured inter-laced steel. The steel, with its heavy associations of industrial progress and the modern age, is put to an unexpected, almost contradictory use in its emulation of a soft, traditional organic object. By overlapping and repeating these forms, an effect like that of the delicately woven eel traps is achieved.
Now on show 10-5pm daily
