A lone tree marks a rare, unplanted plot of land in the Gimblett Gravels region of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. Known for Syrah and other intense red wines, the Gimblett Gravels are an unusual wine region, having been created not by governmental action, but by the collective work of the region’s producers. Treated like a GI or appellation, the region is nonetheless merely a commercial brand—a membership organization with rules on how the name gets used by its members. That said, the demarcations of the region were done strictly based on rigorous geological studies, making this perhaps the only “wine region” in the world whose boundaries are purely and solely defined by geology—in this case the deep gravelly alluvium of the Ngaruroro River.
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