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This is an outstanding wine that will cellar for many years and one that ought to, in terms of quality, catapult Syrah from the Gimblett Gravels into wine's major league.
New Zealand's Champions Will Lyons 2011
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In 2001, a group of local winemakers and grape-growers designated the area Gimblett Gravels, legally registering it as a brand, now known for producing high-quality wines.
New Zealand's Champions Will Lyons 2011
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As a Glos-supporting schoolboy three-score years and more ago, we had a fond enough affinity with our nearest neighbours to the south and north – we happily admired the bucolic likes of Somerset's Harold Gimblett and Arthur Wellard, for instance, as well as the class of Worcester's Don Kenyon and the rosy-cheeked persistence of Reg Perks.
Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating 2011
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Gimblett Gravels is a small, but celebrated wine-growing district in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand.
New Zealand's Champions Will Lyons 2011
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The sour face of Gimblett appeared at the trap cell – door.
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Gimblett led him to the lamp – post in the yard, and I saw that the victim of his wanton tyranny was the poor blind wretch Mooney.
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"Upon my honour, sir, I daren't," said Gimblett, who was not without his good points.
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Gimblett, who robbed Mr. Vane of two hundred pounds, was present, he was at that time a turnkey, holding a third – class pass, and in receipt of two shillings per diem.
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"I can't let you in, your reverence," said Gimblett.
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Gimblett was just drunk enough to be virtuously indignant at this incivility, and seating himself on the edge of the bank, swallowed the remainder of the rum at a draught.
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