Barbequed leg of lamb with Neudorf’s Home Block Pinot Noir 2022

Food and wine are intertwined at Nelson’s Neudorf Vineyards, where a lingering Easter lunch of lamb and Pinot Noir follows hard on the heels of harvest. 

In the nearly 50 years since Judy and Tim Finn helped pioneer Nelson winegrowing, Neudorf has forged a name for thoughtful organics, a solar powered winery, nurtured biodiversity, and extraordinary Moutere wines. They enjoy high sunshine hours, warm days and cool nights in the lead up to harvest, along with deep clay gravel soils topped with sandy loam. The valley was carved out by glacial movement during the last ice age and the clays are plaited with gravels, says Judy and Tim’s daughter Rosie, namesake of the acclaimed Rosie’s Block Moutere Chardonnay. “We get a beautiful minerality through the wines and really wonderful restraint.” That combination of climate, aspect and soil adds up to what the family calls the “moutereness” of their wines.