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Carrick Central Otago Pinot Gris 2023
Carrick Central Otago Pinot Gris 2023 $32 Subtle, classic aromatics of persimmon, nashi, white peach, and a lick of white pepper lead to an ultra-refreshing palate layered with musky spices, bright apple and pear, a dusting of nutmeg and a finish that’s long and elegant. Maturing beautifully and destined to reward another 2-3 years in … Read More
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27 May 2025
Mazuran’s Directors Hawke’s Bay Shiraz 2020
Mazuran’s Directors Hawke’s Bay Shiraz 2020 $85 Softly styled and moving into its maturing years, this shiraz/syrah shows classic blackcurrant, plum and green peppercorn characters on the nose and smoky, spiced cherry characters on the palate. Slightly short, however there’s a leather-like layer developing in the mid-palate which accentuates its earthy finish. Mazurans
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Moko Hills Bendigo Pinot Noir 2022
Moko Hills Bendigo Pinot Noir 2022 $59 Donald van der Westhuizen clearly has Pinot Noir roaring through his veins because it’s clear that he’s able to eke bottles of brilliance from the schisty slopes of Bendigo. His 2022 vintage is unfined and unfiltered and scented with smoked cherry, freshly sliced rhubarb, white pepper and sous … Read More
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Mazuran’s The Governor’s Cellar Gisborne Blanc de Blanc NV
Mazuran’s The Governor’s Cellar Gisborne Blanc de Blanc Chardonnay NV $65 Gisborne is New Zealand’s spiritual home for Chardonnay, meaning it’s also the home of the base wine for countless kiwi sparkling styles. This is a wine maturing into its lemon pith and brazil-nut spectrum. Very golden in the glass and travelling into its tertiary … Read More
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Jules Taylor Marlborough Pinot Gris 2024
Jules Taylor Marlborough Pinot Gris 2024 $22 Classically structured style here from an absolute guru of gris. On the nose there’s a subtle lift of persimmon, nashi, white pepper, soft peach, apple and a lick of feijoa – all of which osmose onto the palate leaving a fresh, energetic impression and a general “oh yum”. … Read More
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26 May 2025
Martinborough Vineyard Home Block Martinborough Chardonnay 2021
Martinborough Vineyard Home Block Martinborough Chardonnay 2021 $39 Re-tasting this two years after release, all I can say is that if you have this in your cellar, see it on a wine list or discover a bottle hidden away on a shop shelf then dive in!! Oh lord, today this wine is overdelivering in every … Read More
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Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay 2023
Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay 2023 $35-$39 From one of the most challenging vintages Hawke’s Bay has ever seen, where Cyclone Gabrielle roared through the region and devastated so many vineyards and dumped an unholy amount of rain just a week or two before harvest was due to begin. Fortunately Trinity’s Chardonnay grows in the … Read More
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23 May 2025
Killibinbin Seduction Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Killibinbin Seduction Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 $16-$18 Dangerously drinkable Cabernet here, a wine roaring with sweet blackberry, dark chocolate, ripe cherry and plump, plummy generosity on the nose and palate. Simple, fruity, smooth and sippable. Available from Liquorland, Super Liquor, Whisky Online
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Killibinbin Sneaky Shiraz 2022
Killibinbin Sneaky Shiraz 2022 $16-$18 Classic blackcurrant, sweet plum, fruitwood smoke and buckets of berries combine in this uncomplicatedly sippable Shiraz. Available from Whisky & More, Liquorland, Super Liquor
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Misty Cove Landmark Series Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2024
Misty Cove Landmark Series Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2024 $24 I’ve tasted many a Grüner V over the years, but it’s the examples from our mates at Misty that repeatedly bring the grins. Instead of being subtle, light, and feathery (as many of the native Austrian examples are), this elegantly-styled wallop of a wine is riddled … Read More
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Q Waitaki Valley Pinot Noir 2023
Q Waitaki Valley Pinot Noir 2023 $74 Waitaki might be one of the harshest locations to grow grapes, but this new vintage from Q proves that treat-em-mean-keep-em-keen theory truly turns out elegantly plush, delicately spicy, cherry and rhubarb-laced pinot noir with soothing, suede-like tannins and stylish length of flavour. Owner Jules Stephan can trace his … Read More
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Jules Taylor OTQ Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Jules Taylor OTQ Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $35-$45 Created from fruit grown in the Altimarloch vineyard in Marlborough’s upper Awatere Valley, one of the coldest sites in the region, the Jules Taylor Wines OTQ Sauvignon Blanc 2022 ($35-$45) is a style that Jules herself has been tinkering with “on the quiet” ever since she began … Read More
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21 May 2025
Matawhero Irwin Gisborne Chardonnay 2021
Matawhero Irwin Gisborne Chardonnay 2021 $60 Kirsten and Richard Searle choose only the absolute best quality fruit to go into this, their flagship Chardonnay, a wine named after Bill and Denis Irwin, the pioneering founders of Matawhero, men who put Gisborne fine wine on the international map. The 2021 Irwin roars with nectarine and grapefruit … Read More
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13 May 2025
Jules Taylor Late Harvest Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2024
Jules Taylor Late Harvest Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2024 $37 Energetic and incredibly aromatic, this wine roars with honeysuckle, passionfruit curd, creamed honey and caramelised peachy characters. Intensely sweet, but beautifully balanced and refreshing and finishing with zesty, candied mandarin and toffee apple notes. It’s a zesty, mango-tastic style. Jules Taylor
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10 May 2025
Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Marsanne Roussanne 2024
Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Marsanne Roussanne 2024 $40 Over the last couple of decades, Trinity Hill have quietly been nurturing a few rows of these two Rhone Valley grapes and crafting tiny amounts of their own signature blend, and those in the know have been excitedly squirrelling each vintage away and appreciating it’s deliciously dry, … Read More
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Yealands Single Vineyard Marlborough P.G.R. 2024
Yealands Single Vineyard Marlborough P.G.R. 2024 $29 This is one of my favourite blended whites of the moment. One of my favourites because of its crunchy-crisp, floral, apple and citrus-stacked aromas, its lacing of soft, musky spices and its fresh, lychee-laden mid-palate textures. This bottle of Awatere Valley-grown goodness also wowed me because tasting it … Read More
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Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2021
Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2021 $35 Graeme Crosbie grows three clones of Chardonnay in his Defiance Vineyard, 809, 1066 and 548, which are the three great clones used by the world-famous, French Grand Crus of Corton-Charlemagne in Burgundy. Central Otago chardonnay is rocking my socks right now and the Defiance is absolutely entering … Read More
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8 May 2025
Brookfields Robertson Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2024
Brookfields Robertson Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2024 $18 If you’ve been avoiding Pinot Gris because you thought it was sweet and blousy, then wrap your chops around this new release from Brookfields and all your wildest dreams will come true. Prepare for an immediate crisp, dry, generous impression, and then enjoy the fact that it’s … Read More
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Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 From a tiny site where four clones of vines grow high on a terrace above the Bannockburn Inlet, comes a Pinot Noir that erupts with vibrantly bright florals, fresh cherry, redcurrant and spice-dusted rhubarb on the nose. All that aromatic awesomeness osmoses through to the palate, … Read More
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5 May 2025
Dee Wine Reserve Hawke’s Bay Merlot Cabernet 2019
Dee Wine Reserve Hawke’s Bay Merlot Cabernet 2019 $tbc Soothing and smoothly savoury, this classic Bordeaux-style blend has soothing cocoa, smoked blueberry, baked boysenberry and graphite-laced goodness. Fine-grained, sandy tannins and fleshy length of flavour. info@deewine.co.nz
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3 May 2025
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022 $60 I mean you could go through your life happily knowing the Carrick EBM Chardonnay is so named for its ‘Extended Barrel Maturation’. However, I feel that name kind of doesn’t really give enough oomph to its actual fabulousness. So from here on in, I’m renaming … Read More
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Blank Canvas Abstract Three Rows Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Blank Canvas Abstract Three Rows Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020 $44 From just three rows of dry-farmed sauvignon blanc growing in the Holdaway Vineyard in Dillons Point comes this carefully crafted wine that’s been naturally fermented in large, older, seasoned oak puncheons, where it’s been aged for 15 months on its lees. That maturation (along with … Read More
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Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2022
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2022 $32-$39 Crafted from a combination of fruit grown in both the Awatere and Southern Valleys, this Pinot Noir is, 3 years on from harvest, fresh and berry-driven, yet is developing hints of savoury, gamy complexity. Bright, energetic and showing fine-grained tannins that dissolve delicately. Nicely made and lightly styled. Whitehaven
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Chard Farm Mason Vineyard Central Otago 2022
Chard Farm Mason Vineyard Central Otago 2022 $88 Holy Parkburn Batman! The spectacular Mason Vineyard Parkburn Pinot Noir is deliciously soothing, elegantly structured, stacked with rooibos tea, baked rhubarb, dark cherry, intense earthy complexity and soft, suede-like tannins to round out its generously creamy, berry-soaked, pepper-dusted finish. Pricey but lusciously nicey, it’s a pinot with … Read More
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Chard Farm Mata-Au Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Mata-Au Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $48 Pronounced ‘matar – oh’, this wine has built a reputation for bringing the very best of the winegrowing talent at Chard Farm into the affordable realm and showcasing the best from their Lowburn and Parkburn vineyards. Mata-Au has a deliciously floral lift of rooibos tea, bright … Read More
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