A collection of writing about New Zealand Wine
Critics James Suckling and Nick Stock have awarded a perfect score to 2020 Mate’s Vineyard Chardonnay. This is only the second New Zealand wine to receive 100/100 from JamesSuckling.com 100 …
Kumeu River Mate’s Vineyard Chardonnay 2020 scores a perfect 100pts Read More
After nine months, Villa Maria has been bought by New Zealand-owned wine company Indevin, which says it plans further investment in the brand. Privately owned Indevin makes wines for wineries …
Villa Maria set to be sold to Indevin Read More
Rockburn Wines opens its new tasting room, the Rockburn Stables, at the Gibbston Tavern this week – just in time for the start of the ski season and school holidays. After …
Rockburn Stables opens at Gibbston Tavern in time for winter Read More
Looking at some of the figures released recently about the 2021 vintage – overall harvest was down 19% across the country, although Central Otago recorded an increase of 21%. This …
Reports on the 2021 vintage Read More
Hawke’s Bay winery Sacred Hill has been put up for sale by its receivers. A notice in Friday’s edition of the Hawke’s Bay Today newspaper said the receivers of Sacred Hill were looking …
Sacred Hill winery for sale Read More
News of a new wine tasting competition over the weekend – The New Zealand Sommeliers and Wine Professionals will hold a series of regional competitions in June/July 2021 to bring people together …
New Zealand Wine Tasting Competition Read More
Judging for the Royal Easter Show was a close-run thing – back in February we’d just come out of another Level-3 lockdown in Auckland which had restricted travel, leaving organisers …
Royal Easter Show Wine Awards 2021 results (and lunch) Read More
Established in 1985, Negociants New Zealand is a distributor of premium wines from New Zealand and around the world. At the 2021 Negociants Fine Wine Tour, they will present a …
Negociants Fine Wine Tour 2021 Read More
A new release from Lorraine Leheny and Warren Gibson’s Bilancia label – I’m very keen to hear how this wine that we talked about in our epic interview in December …
New release: Bilancia Uvaggio 2020 Read More
I’m sure that this bit of news will be of interest to WineFolio readers… The winning wine of our recent Top 10 Tasting of Syrah was The Landing Syrah 2017, and …
A weekend with the winemakers Read More