I first tasted this deliciously unusual, sparkling semillon outdoors on the Alpha Domus lawn, on a scorchingly hot Saturday during the Bridge Pa Triangle Wine Festival. The brainchild of owner Paul Ham’s daughter Beatrix, I was wowed by the aromas of barleygrass, dried lucerne, citrus and biscuit dough. On the palate it is bracingly fresh, … Read More
Alpha Domus Aviatrix Sparkling Cuvée NV $20 (4 stars)
Yvonne Lorkin wine column for week beginning Sat 24th Feb 2018
As I type this column, the ferocity of Ex-Cyclone Gita is about bearing down on Marlborough, the engine room of our wine economy. In fact Marlborough grows the fuel which drives our industry, turning out 77% of New Zealand’s total wine production. Yet across New Zealand, tropical cyclones seem to have become all the more … Read More