Coromandel Life Magazine 2015 Winter V3

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Note: Lisa is scheduled back in the Coromandel with two tentative tasting events
early September 2015. Email lisa@clearviewestate to be updated closer to the time.
THE FAMOUS
SEA RED
COCKTAIL
Lisa
Clarke’s
foot attire
Tim
Turvey’s
grape stompers
We work together, we pick grapes together, we play together, we
queue at the photocopier together, we bottle and label wine
together, we do the 5 minute quiz together, we eat lunch together,
we bring morning tea for each other, we challenge each other and at
times we drive each other up the wall!
At the end of the day we are like a family, love and hate but always for
the cause. We are a close knit bunch, often changing hats or wearing
a few at one time. One thing that is certain, we are all bound by a
commonality that is a desire to produce a great product, be it wine,
food or service.
For the third year, this boutique winery and its rustic Red Shed Restaurant has
won “Best Winery Experience Award” at the Hawke’s Bay Hospitality Awards.
Quality wines and top notch facilities are just part of the picture. We too were
enchanted with the ‘Clearview experience’, which led us to their Facebook
page and its fun collection of staff photographs.
Co-owner Tim Turvey and Account Manager Lisa Clarke are often ‘paired’
together for wine presentations and tastings. They have such enthusiasm and
rapport people sometimes think they are married. They both are, very happily,
but not to each other! That rapport seems evident throughout the entire team,
as they admit below. We can’t wait to visit! -TD
“FOR EACH OTHER” at CLEARVIEW ESTATE
40 COROMANDEL LIFE 2015 WINTER
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A favourite of locals and visitors,
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One of the best eateries on the Coromandel
Hi Tovi
Would like to keep the ad as it is but
just need to change the opening hours
7 Days a Week 8.30am to 4.00pm.
Friday nights we stay open till 8.30pm
for our Open Mic and Pizza’s night
We no longer have music on the last
sunday of the month, and we are not
open Saturday night, only on friday
night with the open Mic.
Otherwise that all looks marvelous
Open 7 days 8:30am-4pm • Fridays till 8:30 pm for Open Mic & Pizza night
THE CROWD PLEASERS
Table chatter at GBD was enthusiastic and positive and I asked
Lisa to share the club favourites of both Tairua and Thames. “Our
Gewurztraminer (a consistent surprise and crowd pick) was a big
seller. (continued...) Blush is forever a popular Summer wine, but
is now being enjoyed even into Winter.
Beachhead and Reserve Chardonnays are
consistent front runners. The 2014 Cape
Kidnappers Syrah, our first vintage with
100% all Te Awanga fruit, just won 4 stars
from Winestate early this year. Tasters agreed
and it was a top seller.
“And Sea Red – say no more!!!!” This classic
Clearview meal finisher is a ‘fortified’ red wine
style pioneered by Tim. I’m normally not a
‘dessert’ wine person, but this one has my vote. Not too sweet
yet with a “weighty palate, oily with dense berry fruits and plum; followed
by an opulent rich but dry finish”. Gary tells me it was enjoyed by many
on the night and a very good seller. Savour it by the glass with a yummy
dessert at Shells Restaurant.
Find Clearview wines at Golddiggers, LK Whitianga & Whangamata, Pauanui
Liquor, and Super Liquor Whangamata as well as restaurants including Shells
and Manaia in Tairua, Salt in Whitianga, Eggsentric and Go Vino in Cooks
Beach. Learn more at
Elton John
doppleg nger
Tim Turvey
hanging out near
a press in his
formal ttire.
Even Triga
lends a ‘paw’
on a promo
photo shoot.
Lisa Clarke
replaces
Jimmy Choos
with gumboots
as she
lends a
hand in
the vineyard