Astrolabe The Farm Marlborough Dry Riesling 2019 $26 With classic green apple, yellow plum and lime zest characters washing across the nose and palate, it’s an attractive style that has chalky intensity and impressive length of flavour. Grown in their Grovetown vineyard, it’s a riesling with buckets of texture, so make sure you chill it … Read More
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The Better Half Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
The Better Half Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 ($tbc) This lipsmacking little lovely from Marlborough is crammed full of tropical, passionfruity punch, peachy layers and loads of lime and lemon. I like that on the website it says “designed to be enjoyed right now – not left to collect dust in your wine rack”, because that’s … Read More
Jules Taylor Marlborough Pinot Gris 2021
Jules Taylor Marlborough Pinot Gris 2021 $22 If your only experiences with pinot gris have involved yawn-inducingly commercial, sweet and flabby styles, then steady yourself for an attitude shift of epic proportions. Bold and generously dry, it’s crammed with classic nashi and quince characters, softly-spiced layers and a spine of solid acidity. It’s got character, … Read More
Hunter’s Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Hunter’s Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020 $15-$19 Paired with Annabel Langbein’s Spring Vegetables & Tahini Soy Dressing – CANVAS magazine NZ Herald Saturday September 25th 2021. I’m sorry but if green beans, snow peas, asparagus, spinach, broccoli and buckets of greenery doesn’t demand a large, chilled goblet of sauvignon blanc then I don’t know what does. … Read More
Te Pa Wines Signature Series Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
te Pā Wines Signature Series Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019 $24.99 I’ve got a feeling that news of how good this wine is could spread around the country faster than Twitter sharing the identities of a Covid-breaching couple seeking name suppression after being snapped in Wanaka. Powerfully aromatic, soaked in cherry and tamarillo, berry tea and … Read More
Stanley Estates Single Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Stanley Estates Single Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $29 From the Awatere (or should I say Awesometere) Valley, comes this lemongrassy lovely from the super-talented folk at Stanley Estates. Winemaker Eveline Fraser manages to coax oh so soft aromas of elderflower, passionfruit and peach from every berry and in the mouth it’s awash with tart … Read More
Misty Cove Landmark Series Marlborough Rose 2021
Misty Cove Landmark Series Marlborough Rose 2021 $20 I poured this wine and said to my husband “When we win Lotto, I want a pink diamond rock on my finger in exactly this shade thanks” to which he mumbled “sure” and went back to scrolling for fishing lures on his phone. I know you’re thinking … Read More
Saint Clair Pioneer Block 28 Marlborough Pinot Blanc 2019
Saint Clair Pioneer Block 28 Marlborough Pinot Blanc 2019 $28.99 Pinot blanc is an ancient mutation of pinot noir that’s also called Weissburgunder in Austria, Fehér Burgundi in Hungary, Bijeli pinot in Croatia and the more commonly known бели бургундац in Serbia. Yet no matter where in the world you’re sipping it, that distinct green … Read More
Blank Canvas Abstract Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018
Blank Canvas Abstract Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018 $39.99 Crafted from fruit dry-farmed by the Holdaway family in Marlborough’s Dillons Point sub-region, the ‘Abstract’ is about as far-removed from still-life sauvignon blanc as you can get. It’s like Rothko, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Miro all in one. 100% wild yeast fermented in old, French oak and aged … Read More
Framingham F Series Old Vine Marlborough Riesling 2020
Framingham F Series Old Vine Marlborough Riesling 2020 $49 White gold in the glass and absolutely heaving with honeysuckle, lime curd and laced with peaches and cream, this citrus-stacked new release from the riesling Royal Family at Framingham, is both cleansing and comforting. But how old exactly are the old vines? Planted back in 1981, … Read More