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Our Burgundy – PM’s love affair with Burgundy began when she drank her first Nuit Saint Georges wines in Singapore with her father in the 1970s. David’s first taste of Burgundy came while studying for a Masters in Law at Cambridge University in England in 1986. A tour of the college wine cellars instantly lit the Burgundy flame for him. When the couple met in Hong Kong in the late 1980s their mutual love of Burgundy was immediate common ground. In 2000, PM and David visited Gevrey-Chambertin for the first time, accompanied by a five-year-old child and a five-month-old baby.

The family rented an apartment above the winery of the Esmonin family in Clos Saint-Jacques, a legendary Premier Cru vineyard. Every morning PM would get up at daybreak to make a bottle for the baby, while watching the sun rise over the vines of the Clos and the Côte – a beautiful sight.

Every evening, the church bells rang at 6.00pm, their rich mellow tones rolling across the village and the vines as they have done for hundreds of years, marking the end of the day on the Côte and signalling to the vignerons it was time to lay down their tools and return home.

Somewhere in the middle of these two weeks in Gevrey, PM and David signed the contract to buy the land at Lowburn in Central Otago. A curious coincidence as a year later they found and bought their French house, which was almost a ruin, and a new chapter began for the Hall-Jones family on the Côte.

As they developed the Lowburn vineyard and the vines grew and matured, they also learnt about wine and vines on the other side of the globe, made friends and explored the Old World during summer holidays.

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Nose: On the nose, blackberries, spice, violets and wild herb aromatics. 

Taste: Medium bodied with an interesting mix of red fruits and savoury notes. A complex, high energy wine, perfect to enjoy today or to patiently cellar.