Elephant In the Room Palatial Pinot Noir 2017 $17.99 (3.5 stars)

February 24, 2018By Yvonne

Crafted from fruit sourced from South Australia, this is a slippery, spicy and seriously succulent little pinot noir with buckets of berry notes that literally leap up the nasal passages and leaves masses of cherry and truffle flavours plunging across the palate. Sweetly-styled and slippery. Widely available.

Yvonne Lorkin wine column for week beginning Sat 24th Feb 2018

February 24, 2018By Yvonne

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