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Pl. Tastevio

Pl. INapier, Hawke's Baysince 2013

Tastevio

A wine shop with a small bar at the back. Local bottles, poured by the glass.

Plate I. A wine bottle, a tasting glass and a Syrah cluster A fine-line drawing of a screwcapped bottle in elevation, a tulip tasting glass holding a short pour, and a bunch of Syrah grapes hanging from a cane with a lobed leaf and a curling tendril. Seven callouts name the parts. Vitis vinifera, Syrah 0 5 cm capsule: screwcap,almost everything we stock 1 label: grown within 60 km 2 shoulder 3 punt 4 bowl: 75 mltasting pour 5 Syrah leaf,Heretaunga Plains 6 tendril 7
  1. capsule: screwcap, almost everything we stock
  2. label: grown within 60 km
  3. shoulder
  4. punt
  5. bowl: 75 ml tasting pour
  6. Syrah leaf, Heretaunga Plains
  7. tendril
Pl. I. Bottle, glass and fruit, drawn at the shop counter.
See the shelf Pull up a stool
Open Tuesday to Sunday
Pl. I · 2
A tasting glass drawn in half section, with lines marking a 75 ml tasting pour and a 150 ml glass outside cut through rim, kept thin 1 150 ml · a full glass 2 75 ml · a tasting pour 3 stem, solid glass 4
  1. rim, kept thin
  2. 150 ml, a full glass
  3. 75 ml, a tasting pour
  4. stem, solid glass in section
Pl. I · 2. Tasting glass in half section, outside on the left, cut through on the right.

The tasting bar

Eleven Stools at the Back

The old haberdashery counter fits exactly eleven stools. We pour 75 ml at a time, short on purpose, so a flight of five costs about the same as two full glasses and you leave knowing five growers instead of one.

  • Flight of three, 75 ml each$18
  • Flight of five, 75 ml each$28
  • A glass, 150 ml$11-$17
  • Bar board$16Local bread, two cheeses, olives and pickled walnuts.
  • Any shelf bottle, opened at the bar+$10On top of the shelf price, poured at your stool.

Walk in, there are no bookings at the bar. Last pour is 30 minutes before close. Six or more of you? Email a day ahead and we'll push stools together.

Tonight's flights and private tastings

Nine bottles, nearest grower first

On the Shelf

Bottles run from $22 to $140, and most of the shelf sits between $28 and $45. Any of these can be opened at the bar for the shelf price plus $10.

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The whole shelf, $22 to $140
Pl. I · 3
A schematic of the Heretaunga Plains with the Ngaruroro and Tukituki rivers and dotted rings at 20, 40 and 60 km from Napier N Bay View Taradale Puketapu Hastings Havelock North Clive Haumoana Te Awanga Bridge Pa the gravels Crownthorpe Mangatahi Hawke Bay 0 10 km Napier 1 Ngaruroro River 2 Tukituki River 3 20 km 4 40 km 5 60 km,about an hour 6
  1. Napier, the shop
  2. Ngaruroro River
  3. Tukituki River
  4. 20 km from the door
  5. 40 km
  6. 60 km, about an hour's drive
Pl. I · 3. The Heretaunga Plains as a schematic, rings measured from the shop door.

Where it grows

Nothing on the Shelf Grew More Than an Hour Away

Every bottle comes from a Hawke's Bay grower inside sixty kilometres of the shop. That ring takes in the sea-facing slopes at Bay View, the river stones of the Heretaunga Plains and the terraces up the Tukituki, and stops there.

Most of these growers have no cellar door of their own, so the shelf and the bar are where you taste them. The shelf runs the same way the map does: nearest grower top left, furthest bottom right.

  • Inside 20 kmBay View, Esk Valley, Puketapu, Haumoana and Te Awanga
  • 20-40 kmBridge Pa, the Ngaruroro gravels and Crownthorpe
  • 40-60 kmMangatahi and the terraces up the Tukituki
Why the shelf runs by distance
Pl. I · 4
The narrow shopfront in elevation, with a bench under the window, a tall door and the tasting bar visible through the door glass TASTEVIO window bench 1 the door 2 fascia 3 the bar,through the back 4
  1. window bench
  2. the door
  3. fascia
  4. the bar, through the back
Pl. I · 4. The shopfront in elevation, one narrow front between its neighbours.

Visiting

A Narrow Shop in Napier, Open Six Days

A former haberdashery with a bench under the window and the bar through the back. Walk in. There is nothing to book unless you are bringing a crowd.

  • OpenTue-Thu 11am-7pm. Fri-Sat 11am-9pm, bar pouring until 8:30pm. Sun 12-5pm. Closed Mondays and public holidays.
  • ThursdaysDelivery to Napier, Taradale, Bay View, Clive, Hastings and Havelock North. Free over $150, otherwise $8.
  • AprilShut 1-14 April for vintage. Back on the 15th, probably sunburnt.
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