A collection of writing about New Zealand Wine
25 years ago, on Bastille Day 1999, Adele and Daniel Le Brun released Cuvée No.1, the first Marlborough Méthode Traditionelle from their company No.1 Family Estate. To celebrate the new venture …
25 Years of Cuvée No.1 Read More
‘Wine Options’ is a competition where teams of four people combine knowledge, memory, ability to taste, and some inspired guesswork to determine the identity of eight wines. The game is …
Winning ‘Wine Options’ Read More
Hawke’s Bay winery Church Road has been awarded ‘Best International Chardonnay’ for its 2021 Grand Reserve Chardonnay at the International Wine Challenge (IWC) earlier this month. The wine also won …
Church Road win ‘Best International Chardonnay’ at IWC Read More
Winemaker and vineyard owner James Millton – who in 2012 was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the New Zealand wine industry – …
James Millton convicted for smuggling vine cuttings into NZ Read More
Great TV, or film, that has wine as a central theme, can be hard to find. There is ‘Sideways’ of course – the film (from the book by Rex Pickett) …
Drops of God – Apple TV+ Read More
Presented by the Institute of Masters of Wine and the drinks business since 2011, the award of ‘Winemaker’s Winemaker’ recognises outstanding achievement in winemaking. Masters of Wine winemakers and the …
Michael Brajkovich MW announced as 2024 Winemakers’ Winemaker from the Masters of Wine Institute Read More
One of the most famous restaurants in the world – certainly from a wine lover’s perspective – La Tour d’Argent in Paris – appears to missing wines worth around 2.5 …
Paris restaurant La Tour d’Argent ‘loses’ more than NZ2.5m worth of wine Read More
A machine learning algorithm from the University of Geneva in Switzerland has proven to be able to identify the precise origin of Bordeaux wines through analysis of their chemical makeup. …
New AI algorithim could aid against wine counterfeiting Read More
You know when you look at something unexpected, and think to yourself “What’s that all about?” That happened last night and this morning when I was checking the browser statistics …
Ben Tombs promoted to Chief Winemaker at Craggy Range Read More
Yealands Wines is celebrating the achievement of their Chief Winemaker, Natalie Christensen, winning the ‘White Winemaker of the Year’ Trophy at the International Wine Challenge (IWC) awards ceremony held in …
Natalie Christensen wins ‘White Winemaker of the Year’ Trophy at IWC Read More