Yvonne Lorkin Wine Column for Week beginning Sat 23 Dec 2017

December 23, 2017By Yvonne

Wine Matching for Christmas Feasting So it’s Saturday 23rd and you’ve been nominated to host the main Christmas shindig.  You bust a gut preparing the most impressive menu you can, yet experience has it that the guests will arrive bearing less than average wine that’d be more at home in the chilli bin at your … Read More

Leveret Estate Reserve Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2014 $31 (4.5 stars)

December 23, 2017By Yvonne

This is my kind of chardonnay! With aromas of peachy nougat, a whiff of grapefruit and creamy, biscuity bonza-ness. On the palate it is developing a gorgeous, caramelised core of stonefruit and toasty, nutty oak. Old school chardonnay lovers will love this and new converts to chardonnay will love the freshness – it’s a really … Read More