Welcome

It is with pleasure we welcome you to the C J Pask Winery website. 

We hope you enjoy learning about our award winning wines, our vineyards, our people and our business.  We are a business that has grown from making tiny quantities of wine sold only from the winery, to that of a winery now producing some 50,000 cases of wine each year, and supplying some of the finest retail stores and restaurants around the world.

Our Winery is committed to the Hawke’s Bay region, and was the first company to plant grapes in the world-renowned Gimblett Road winegrowing region.  The passion of our people, and our commitment to environmentally sustainable winegrowing practices, enables us to produce award-winning wines that reflect our company’s values and aspirations.

Enjoy!

Customer Feedback:

15/01/2010

Greetings C.J. Pask Winery

This is a belated but sincere compliment and thanks for one of your fine wines.  In Hawkes Bay around the year 2000 I bought some of your wines including a C. J. Pask Gimblet Road Sauvignon Blanc – 1999 vintage. 

This was added to some wines ‘put aside’ and only recently brought out again to check the cork.  So last November it was opened (somewhat apprehensively).  I thought you would be interested to know that it was in perfect condition.  A most enjoyable and full Sauvignon Blanc.  I have had other ‘older wines’ which have not lasted the time, but this C.J. Pask  1999 Sauvignon Blanc was a beauty.  Wonderful colour and flavours – confirming justified international acclaim for you wines. 

So thank you for this, from one of my favourite vineyards since living in Napier in the late 1960s to early 1970s.

Warm regards,

26/01/2010

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We sat down to dinner with the Declaration Chardonnay and thoroughly enjoyed its robustness. As the attached photo shows, the Puligny Montrachet followed very closely and just as well!!! I thought I had read of your Gimblett Road Chardonnay being placed alongside the Chassagne Montrachet, comparing very favourably, so sent my comparison, the two french wines being almost neighbours.
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31/01/2010

Hi C.J.Pask

I  just have to let you know, we delved to the back of our small wine collection this evening and pulled out a bottle of C.J.Pask 1998 Gimblett Rd Cabernet Sauvignon.  We bought this from your cellar door 10 years ago while on a wine trail in the Hawks Bay with friends.  The label my then girlfriend (now Wife) attached to the neck said we paid $25 for the bottle.

It was certainly worth the wait.  What an absolutely divine drink to be had.  The favours were so well rounded with a fantastic smooth afterglow that we savoured just long enough before the temptation of another mouthful overtook.

Thank you very much for producing such a superb bottle of wine, I only wish we had another one. 

Kind Regards

02/02/2010

Dear Kate
 
I hope that all is well with you, your family and the team at CJ Pask. Lara and I are hoping that 2010 will be better than 2009, which was frankly disasterous.
 
It certainly took a turn for the better last night, when we opened a bottle of Declaration Syrah 2004 which was a gift from you.
 
Kate, the wine is stunning. Violets, fresh sweet plum fruit. A wisp of black pepper accompanies a superb, rich and weighty palate of red berries and the violets come back. Like the truly great wines of the Northern Rhône, your wine is elegant, but generous and packed with delightful flavours - a triumph!
 
Congratulations to the team and thank you for your generosity.
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