{"id":5516,"date":"2022-05-15T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winefolio.co.nz\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2022-05-15T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:40:12","slug":"an-afternoon-at-te-motu-waiheke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winefolio.co.nz\/?p=5516","title":{"rendered":"An afternoon at Te Motu, Waiheke"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We\u2019re on Waiheke – it is a sunny afternoon, and Gabor and I are talking to Rory Dunleavy about the history of Te Motu and what is happening around the place now.<\/p>

WineFolio<\/strong>: What\u2019s your part in Te Motu today?<\/p>

Rory Dunleavy<\/strong>: I play a little part in all of it these days shouldering the responsibility of the GM role. I grew up a little bit more on the hospitality side of the business, helping out the restaurant and cellar door teams during my summer breaks. There wasn\u2019t a firm pressure to jump right into the family business, I was encouraged to go off and do my own thing, and chase my own passions. For me that was taking a creative path. I studied Fine Art at Elam, moved to the UK and lived there for a while after art school. Back in Auckland, worked in advertising as an art director \u2013 lots of creative problem solving – for quite a few years. And then slowly started dipping my toes back in. Joined for vintage about four years ago now, and really loved being involved in the wine side of things.<\/p>

What was irresistible to me about the world of wine, is that it is where art meets science. When you\u2019re doing it at a small scale, there\u2019s so much craft and care involved. You do end up with an artisanal product that you\u2019ve had a hand in shaping, something to be proud of.<\/p>

For me there\u2019s a similar parallel to our approach to cuisine in our restaurant. Being a small producer ourselves, we want to deal with suppliers who bring a similar level of attention to detail to their craft. We care immensely about food provenance, and in addition to growing our own, we support a lot of small growers. A good example is our supplier Farmgate produce who grow the best pork in the country, hands down. They\u2019ve got eighty hectares of coastal farmland up past Kaitaia, with heritage breed pigs. Our Head chef took his family for a road trip about a year ago and they popped in there and visited the farm. There\u2019s pictures of them nursing the little piglets down on the beach. With the level of care they take in growing these animals, being able to take a whole beast and use every part of it, doing our own in-house charcuterie, and dining nose to tail is just awesome for us.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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WF<\/strong>: I remember Paul loved doing that himself \u2013 making his own pat\u00e9s and terrines. I mean going back 25 years \u2013 but it is nice that you\u2019ve kept up that tradition. How is your Dad by the way?<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: He\u2019s good \u2013 he\u2019s quite involved in some larger scale operations in Marlborough these days (300 ha in the Awatere valley).\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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It\u2019s an interesting story \u2013 due to challenging times off the back of the Global Financial Crisis the family sold our stake in Te Motu, in 2008. With the proceeds of the sale he invested wisely in Marlborough.<\/p>

My uncle John had stayed on here at Te Motu as winemaker to maintain consistency for the new owners Richard and Tina Yan.\u00a0 It was a passion project for them but their main business – a large construction company they were involved in ran into difficulties, and off the back of that members of our family along with a syndicate of family friends stepped in to purchase it back in 2013. We picked up the property between us and Stonyridge in the process \u2013 the old Airfield – which will be one of our next projects to develop.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: So you\u2019re going to be planting something there?<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: It\u2019s definitely on the cards. Over the past few years the focus has been on improving the health of the vineyard and bringing the existing blocks up to full production. Most of the vines went in around thirty years ago now. We\u2019d have some of the oldest vines on the island, and they are still going strong- but you lose a lot over the years, so the past three winters we\u2019ve done a lot of interplanting, filling the gaps in our existing canopy, and we\u2019ve added a few new varieties over the last couple of seasons. Petit Verdot, and a little Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In terms of our next planting site, we have another part of the valley to the East that we are very excited about, which could be excellent for Syrah, or more Cabernet Franc. The airfield has quite a different pitch than the rest of the estate, sloping slight to the south rather than the north so it could be a slightly cooler site, it\u2019s we\u2019ll have to have a good look at the soil too, but the thinking is it could provide an excellent opportunity to add some Waiheke white to our portfolio.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: I have a look back at the year around about now and do a column about my favourite wines of the year. And I realised that I can\u2019t really write it until I\u2019ve been out to Waiheke \u2013 the wine of the year could be out here waiting to be discovered! Is there still good demand for those blockbuster, premium reds?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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RD<\/strong>: Our wine club has been building steadily year to year, and the demand through the hospitality trade now is starting to grow again as well. COVID years aside – the rise of wine tourism to the island over the years has really helped.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: Yeah \u2013 I don\u2019t know where Auckland tourism goes from here \u2013 it was a case of \u2018managing\u2019 visitors, not \u2018attracting more\u2019 visitors pre Covid; and Waiheke would get a million tourists a year. But I\u2019d expect Waiheke to be the shining light with any return to tourism as we knew it?<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: I guess it is a time for everyone to brace themselves and get ready for it, because, if nothing else, you\u2019ve seen New Zealand in the news so much over the past year and a half \u2013 globally.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: I wish that New Zealand could move beyond being somewhere that has great ingredients \u2013 like oysters, dairy, honey, lamb\u2026 but could develop a definite \u2018food style\u2019 so that became part of our tourism identity. We absolutely have those great raw ingredients, but what is \u2018kiwi cuisine\u2019? And to be honest, wine is perhaps the one thing that is grown on our land, and then turned into something that is world class and identifiably a New Zealand showcase. I love your wine list by the way \u2013 I\u2019m a fan of Helio!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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RD<\/strong>: I haven\u2019t met Mat (Kirby) in person, but Dave Nash is a good mate. I knew of Dave from my advertising days, and then met him properly when he was filming A Seat at the Table, and we\u2019ve done a bit of work together and collaborated on a few tasting events in town. To bolster the wine list varieties we don\u2019t produce ourselves, it\u2019s ever changing but we do try to support family friends or other growers who\u2019ve had a strong connection to us over the years like the Brajkovich\u2019s, and Hunters, or contemporary winemakers we admire like Tamra (Kelly Washington), Paul Pujou (Prophets Rock).<\/p>

Of our own wines on the list, Te Motu is our flagship, a Cabernet Sauvignon dominant Bordeaux blend made with balance and longevity in mind. It\u2019s brother the \u2018Kokoro\u2019 meaning the patriarch, a nod to my Grandfather Terry – has a little less time in barrel, and is Merlot dominant.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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So we\u2019ve got left and right bank styles. In a particularly challenging year we might forgo producing a Te Motu \u2013 it tends to be the later ripening Cabernet that cops it if the season takes a turn.<\/p>

In 2017 for example Kokoro was the top tier we produced. Our Cabernet got hammered by some pretty gnarly rain events, and shrivelled on the vine. Thankfully those rain clouds had a silver lining, the raisins tasted great and from them we produced a late harvest Cabernet Sauvignon \u2018The Nectar\u2019. The seasons have been too good in recent years for another batch!<\/p>

Vintage variability is always a challenge to contend with, but often that\u2019s where things get exciting. What I\u2019ve always found fascinatingly interesting about these wines is that they do slip in and out of phases as they evolve through the years, not a\u00a0 parabolic curve, more of a series of waves. Even the lesser vintages often drift off and then come back, and end up really blowing us away. For example our 2012 vintage \u2013 it\u2019s been a sleeper hit. In its early years it felt like it was missing the x factor but it has really developed into something incredible.<\/p>

With the Estate we treat every block, every wine is in competition to be in the Te Motu blend. There\u2019s been very few times that we only made one wine, like in 2010. Incredible vintage for us. Big wine, very powerful. When we were preparing to release the 2013s we tasted the two of them blind side by side, and we picked the 10 as the younger, tighter wine. Our current release is from the 2016 vintage, and there\u2019s no desperate rush to get it out of our cellar. It\u2019s got plenty of life ahead of it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Well \u2013 this wine here is an entirely new one! This is the first release of our premium Syrah. We only make a couple of barrels of it. I waxed the caps of these bottles by hand, and this just so happens to be the first time I\u2019ve opened a bottle now that they\u2019ve got the wax on.<\/p>

This wine, the \u2018Kuikui\u2019 is named for my Grandmother Margaret, who \u2013 to us – is as much of a legend as Terry is. She loves plants and gardening which brushed off on her kids. She was here on day one and helped in planting the vines. Mother of eleven children and an absolutely inspirational figure to us, so we thought we\u2019d best have a top tier wine dedicated to her as well.<\/p>

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RD<\/strong>: We\u2019re very lucky with this site in the Onetangi Valley. The northern facing slopes, combined with Waiheke\u2019s warmer microclimate makes for one of the best environments in the country for ripening Cabernet. The approach here has always been to \u2018make our wine in the vineyard\u2019 \u2013 we\u2019re after the best quality fruit we can possibly bring in, to afford a more sympathetic approach to wine. Carefully managing the canopy and fruit set, thinning to optimal low yields are our key tools.\u00a0 Come vintage we tend to pick with smaller crews who know what they\u2019re looking for. We might pick a couple of tonnes a day, each parcel in it\u2019s own ferment. Our winemaker Matt and I will often be the ones on the sorting table. We\u2019re relatively low tech in our winery but we\u2019ve made investments where it counts. I think we were one of the first small vineyards in the country to invest in a Pellenc Selectiv de-stemmer, and they do such a fantastic job, incredibly gentle.<\/p>

From a winemaking perspective, we\u2019re not heavy-handed. We won\u2019t make an intervention unless it\u2019s going to improve the wine. We\u2019re fairly generous with the amount of time our top wines spend in oak, which reduces the need for fining. We look for a balanced expression, using no more than 30% new oak. We like having the presence there to support the wine’s structure and longevity, but not to dominate. Balance and restraint are key.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: This wine has a lovely delicate quality to it \u2013 not too peppery, and with lovely deep fruit \u2013 mulberry, bitter cherry juiciness \u2013 ripe but savoury. It has a big heart to it \u2013 very generous across the palate. It feels very ready to go \u2013 it\u2019s got a great balance. Was this made for this project, or did you stumble across something in the cellar six years on?<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: I first tasted this when we were doing the initial tasting and writing notes ahead of the release of the 2015 Te Motu. We pulled out a couple of bottles from the barrel room \u2013 neither of which were labelled, and one was accidentally this. The other was Te Motu. I went \u201cshit, these aren\u2019t the same wine\u201d but \u201cthis is gorgeous \u2013 what is it!?\u201d (laughs). Worked out that this was the Syrah! No-one had got around to sorting the labelling. We\u2019ve got 600 bottles and handful of magnums. A lot of it will get snapped up by our Wine Club Members.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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WF<\/strong>: Sometimes when a wine is that well balanced, it can almost become a bit bland. This has enough character to save it from that. Everything is there, in the right place, right now. I love that it has a lightness of touch, but an underlying power. But I was just saying to Gabor \u2013 another five years and that will be sublime.<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: In \u201915 our Syrah Block had quite a lot of green berries throughout the canopy, and awkward fruit set due to wild spring weather. The riper fruit was exceptional, so my cousin Sam made it a personal mission to remove every green berry, bunch by bunch. After that my Uncle John who was winemaker at the time, handed Sam the reins and let him make the wine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This block of Syrah was originally planted to add a touch of hermitage to our Bordeaux blends. It would have to be amongst the oldest Syrah planted on the island.<\/p>

It\u2019s a fair point to note that we do hold our releases back, which is unusual for us kiwis. The appreciation of aged wine is more of a European trait right David?<\/p>

Dad was always fond of the claret style, Dad would cite Tom McDonald and the reds he was producing in Hawkes Bay as one of his biggest influences toward shaping the vision for Te Motu.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Seeing the potential for high quality NZ reds being realised, and tasting through the old world benchmark French First Growths with Tom at the Hawkes Bay club on the regular sounds like a dream education in wine to me. I suppose back then those wines weren\u2019t so expensive.<\/p>

WF<\/strong>: It\u2019s funny because I\u2019ll sometimes tell people here in New Zealand, the things I used to drink back in the UK thirty years ago \u2013 and they don\u2019t believe you! It wasn\u2019t every day drinking, but it certainly wasn\u2019t 9,000 dollars a bottle either.<\/p>

RD<\/strong>: I\u2019ll have to take your word for it!<\/p>

It\u2019s a shame the prices have become so unattainable, I\u2019d love to see more benchmarking and comparative tastings between NZ ultra premium reds but it comes at such a cost if you include notable examples from the left bank.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In our formative years \u2013 by chance we were incredibly lucky to have a valuable link with Bordeaux. Dr Paul Pontallier, the chief oenologist and director of Chateau Margaux, tasted one of our early vintages at Alain Ducasse\u2019s restaurant in Paris. Astonished that this wine was being made down here in New Zealand, he arranged a visit to Te Motu in early 1996, sharing with us some old world wisdom. Off the back of that, John was invited to join Margaux for their 1996 vintage.<\/p>

It seems like ancient history now, but what\u2019s incredibly special to me is that by taking the approach they have, to produce this style of wine – always with longevity in mind \u2013 I\u2019ve been able to appreciate and learn from those early vintages \u2013 tasting our family history. It bodes well for the future that at this point in time our first vintage, the 1993 is still holding up beautifully.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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