A collection of writing about New Zealand Wine
A red wine from Mendocino County’s Redwood Valley, California – the vineyard was planted in the 1930s. A dense, opaque garnet red, with a brick red showing (with age) at …
Edmeades Piffero Vineyard Zinfandel 2001 Read More
Rounding out the rest of the box that was waiting for me on my ‘return to New Zealand’ – with a slew of bold reds from both Europe and Australia. …
Laithwaites ‘Return to NZ’ box – Part 2 Read More
A single vineyard wine from Dillons Point in Marlborough. The Ahi Ka project designed by the collaboration of grower and winemaker to be a showcase of the very best that …
Ahi Ka Blackmore Sauvignon Blanc 2024 Read More
A Syrah from the Gimblett Gravels sub-region of Hawke’s Bay, in a great vintage. Winner of a Gold medal at the 2024 NZIWS. A dark crimson-ruby colour in the glass. …
Squawking Magpie ‘Stoned Crow’ Syrah 2021 Read More
A wine from the Awatere Valley vineyard. The colour is clear, pale and with a green tinge to the translucent gold in the glass. A terrific blast of perfume that …
Yealands Estate Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2024 Read More
A wine from Alexandra in Central Otago – winner of a Gold Medal at the NZIWS in 2024. The colour is a clear, pale coral pink in the glass. The …
Judge Rock ‘Innocent’ Rosé 2024 Read More
A return to taste a wine that I first met in May last year (and had thought to go back to sooner than this) – https://winefolio.co.nz/?p=8494. But this is a …
Filly Chardonnay 2023 Read More
A wine from Waiheke – a small single vineyard block – in a great vintage for 2020. A bright ruby purple colour in the glass. Effusively aromatic and quite varietally-typical. …
Mawhitipana Estate Syrah 2020 Read More
Coming from the Upper Hemel en Aarde Valley, which stretches inland from the coastal town of Hermanus, South Africa – an area first planted in 1976. A translucent pale straw …
Newton Johnson ‘Family Vineyards’ Chardonnay 2019 Read More
A return to Vinho Verde’s origins. Back then, the name Vinho Verde was not used – ‘Pardusco’ was the name given to red wines with a translucent, brick red colour …
Anselmo Mendes Pardusco Vinho Verde Tinto 2022 Read More