A collection of writing about New Zealand Wine
From Marlborough, a brilliant pale straw colour. With a nose that combines elegance with depth – peach and melon with a toasted almond, but also vanilla and caramel. Dry, medium-bodied …
Seresin Reserve Chardonnay 2016 Read More
The 2020 vintage will be long-remembered for New Zealand’s entry to full lockdown four days before the first harvest picking was to start in Central Otago. Luckily the vines played …
Rockburn Pinot Noir 2020 Read More
From the ‘Eastern Hills of Waiheke Island’, a deep, inky, garnet in the glass. Wide and spicy on the nose, with blueberry, red plum, rosehip, raspberry, eucalypt and toasty rich …
Stonyridge Syrah 2018 Read More
With recent ‘best in line up’ type plaudits from reviewers, this Single Vineyard wine is now quite hard to find. An excellent 2019 vintage has had writers scrambling for superlatives …
Villa Maria Single Vineyard Ihumatao Chardonnay 2019 Read More
A Martinborough Pinot Noir from talented winemaker Daniel Brennan. A lighter ruby in the glass, with a lifted, elegant nose filled with musk rose, orange rind, damson and red cherry, …
Testify Pinot Noir 2018 Read More
Trophy Winner at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards. Plum, cinnamon, clove, lavender, rose and blackberry on the nose. Supple and juicy, with rich, dark fruit flavours across the wide …
Villa Maria Cellar Selection Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2019 Read More
From fruit on their Cairnmuir and Arthur’s Vineyards in Bannockburn. A classic Central Otago nose of thyme, dark cherry, cranberry and rosehip. Medium bodied, with vibrant acidity and a concentrated, …
Carrick Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2018 Read More
An organic wine from the Waipara Valley sub-region (of North Canterbury). Dark crimson in the glass, and bright with cherry, plum, redcurrant and raspberry fruits. Aromatic, flush with rose petal …
Greystone Pinot Noir 2018 Read More
From Central Hawke’s Bay, and the winner of the Trophy for Champion Pinot Gris at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards this year. A very pale gold colour in the …
The Junction ‘Red Card’ Pinot Gris 2020 Read More
Fruit from a site on Te Muna Road in Martinborough – a new label that I featured in April, but the first time trying the wine for me. www.winefolio.co.nz/?p=3321 Bright …
Equilibrium Makers Pinot Noir 2020 Read More