Reviews

A classic Bordeaux Blend from Hawke’s Bay – a great vintage, and with enough years in bottle to have a look and see if it has really started to really …

Elephant Hill Reserve Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Malbec 2016 Read More

The Champion wine of the NZIWS competition recently, and a wine with immense pedigree (the 2015 wine winning that same award in 2016). An excellent vintage too – reflected in …

Clearview Estate Reserve Chardonnay 2020 Read More

A deep claret and carmine red in the glass, with a vivid bouquet of black plum, cedar, cola, cassis, star anise, cherry, chamomile and violets. Beautifully poised in the palate, …

Tantalus Estate Écluse 2016 Read More

A single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the Gimblett Gravels – great to see a wine that is 100% of this classic varietal. An inkily black-hued purple in the glass – …

Trinity Hill ‘Prison Block’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Read More

Back in 2020 I looked at a range of Mills Reef wines – https://winefolio.co.nz/?p=932, and a couple of years on, it was time to take another look at two of …

Mills Reef Reserve reds Read More

From the excellent Everyday wine store – an ‘own brand’ Sauvignon Blanc made from a BioGro-certified organic vineyard in Nelson. Barrel-fermented and matured, in a style more akin to a …

Everyday Wine ‘Raf’ Sauvignon Blanc 2018 Read More

A ‘right-bank’ style blend of Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon from Hawke’s Bay, and a great vintage. A dark purple-tinged ruby in the glass. Youthful and energetic on …

Clearview Estate ‘Enigma’ 2020 Read More

The Block 17 ‘Plateau’ has most of its fruit sourced from a single vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels, Hawke’s Bay, and is typically a blend of two thirds Cabernet Sauvignon, …

St Clair Pioneer Block 17 Plateau Cabernet Merlot – across vintages Read More