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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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Chard Farm The Tiger Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm The Tiger Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 The Hay family’s team at Chard Farm are specialists in single-vineyard Pinot Noir’s and this particular one hails from a tiny parcel of fruit grown in a vineyard located in Lowburn, between Wanaka and Cromwell near the shores of Lake Dunstan. The Tiger has a … Read More
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Chard Farm Viper Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Viper Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 The Chard Farm winery, owned by the Hay family, is located on land which was a farm founded by Richard Chard in 1868, an entrepreneurial soul who set about growing produce to supply the local gold miners. The Hay’s have crafted a range of single-vineyard … Read More
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Alpha Domus The Batten Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2024
Alpha Domus The Batten Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2024 $44 I cannot stress this enough. The Batten 2024 is my Chardonnay of the year so far, and if you’re a Chardonnay fan or Chardonnay collector, you must beg, steal, borrow, barter, do whatever it takes to get your mits on this vintage as soon as you … Read More
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2 May 2025
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2023
Monowai Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2023 $24 Gorgeously golden in the glass, winemaker and owner Emma Lowe has, from a horrific cyclone year, I might add, created a bold, peach and cashew-crammed style with refreshing acidity, buttered toast dusted with cinnamon characters and a finish that’s like a marathon being run in your mouth. Tropic-tastic and … Read More
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19 April 2025
Trinity Hill Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2023
Trinity Hill Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2023 $24.99 2023 was a really tricky year for Hawke’s Bay grapegrowers as Cyclone Gabrielle struck with devastating force just as harvest was about to begin. Yet the folk at Trinity Hill managed to craft a snappy, richly-structured, dry-styled gris laced with classic nashi notes and a hint of … Read More
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8 April 2025
Huia Organic Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2024
Huia Organic Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2024 $36 From one of New Zealand’s oldest and most respected organic pioneers, this sauvignon will appeal to anyone keen on a little less of Sauvignon’s signature squinty acidity and a little more of a softer, creamy side. Scented with gentle bruised basil, lemongrass and jalapeno notes, it has a … Read More
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Blank Canvas Anandale Farm Marlborough Riesling 2023
Blank Canvas Anandale Farm Marlborough Riesling 2023 $32 This snappy-sweet, beautifully balanced Kabinett-style Riesling is sourced from a vineyard located in the Blind River sub-region in Marlborough’s Awatere Valley. The nose roars with ripe lime, homemade lemonade and freshly cut Ambrosia apples. All of those elements osmose across the palate, leaving an ultra-vibrant, zesty-textured finish … Read More
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Brightwater Vineyards Lord Rutherford Barrique Nelson Chardonnay 2023
Brightwater Vineyards Lord Rutherford Barrique Nelson Chardonnay 2023 $42 This rich, generously fruity, luxuriously juicy, creamy, and toasty chardonnay is stacked with nectarine niceness and sweetly concentrated, slightly smoky layers licked with almond and ripe yellow plum notes. It’s stunning stuff, and if you’re disciplined enough to leave a little in the bottle for tomorrow, … Read More
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7 April 2025
Three Fates in Bay Buzz Magazine 2025
Three Fates wine by Yvonne LorkinApril 1, 2025 From left: Holly Girven-Russell, Casey Motley, Hester Nesbitt. Photo: Florence Charvin When it comes to wine stories fitting the cultural zeitgeist, it doesn’t get more current than three, young Hawke’s Bay women stalking each other on social media before opting to leap into business together with the … Read More
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1 April 2025
Brookfields Back Block Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2023
Brookfields Back Block Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2023 $22 Peter Robertson is an ex flatmate of the Wizard of Christchurch. He also began making wine in Hawke’s Bay in the early 1970s and purchased Brookfields Vineyards in 1977, forty years after it was founded in 1937. He was one of the first to leap onto the … Read More
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Jenny Dobson Florence Hawke’s Bay Fiano 2023
Jenny Dobson Florence Hawke’s Bay Fiano 2023 $45 Having been involved with crafting Fiano from fruit grown in tiny amounts in the Bridge Pa subregion since 2010, Jenny Dobson is easily New Zealand’s foremost expert on Fiano production. Fiano is an ancient, white grape with its spiritual home in Campania in Southern Italy. Still, it … Read More
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12 March 2025
Huntress Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2023
Huntress Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2023 $48 This is the first time Jannine Rickards has released a syrah from Hawke’s Bay, and she sourced her fruit from the Herringbone Vineyard in Bridge Pa. Taking a third of the grapes and fermenting them as whole clusters (rather than the traditionally crushed berries) has created a wine with … Read More
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11 March 2025
Saorsa Hawke’s Bay Rosê 2023
Saorsa Hawke’s Bay Rosê 2024 $32 Built on a backbone of Bridge Pa-grown syrah, this is a bright, peppery rosé, dry and rich and spicy. In a dimpled punt, it’s a fleshy, feisty style with good richness. And excellent length of flavour. Complex and rich.
Cardrona Distillery The Falcon Single Malt Whisky
Cardrona Distillery The Falcon Single Malt Whisky 700ml $353 This is the flagship single malt from the clever kids at Cardrona and it’s a blend of portions taken from an ex-Olorosso butt, and ex-Bourbon barrel and an ex-Central Otago Pinot Noir barrel. Grilled nectarine, creamed manuka honey, buttery, boozy, raisin and sultana-soaked Christmas cake batter … Read More
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3 March 2025
Cardrona Distillery American Barrel Single Cask
Cardrona Distillery American Barrel Single Cask 700ml 52% $353 Ex-Bourbon American seasoned barrels are the most commonly used vessels used in Whisky maturation, and the 200l cask that this example comes from has injected something exotically seductive, something almost emotional and something almost, dare I say it, spiritual. It’s intensely scented with smoked butterscotch, vanilla, … Read More
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Cardrona Distillery Single Sherry Cask
Cardrona Distillery Single Sherry Cask 700ml 52%abv $353 Crafted using a 500l oak, ex-Olorosso Sherry butt from Southern Spain that’s been lightly charred, and it adds incredible intensity and nutty, fruity richness to this single-cask whisky. Lifted and lusciously scented with caramelised sultanas and raisins, brown butter, hazelnut and smoked nougat, on the palate it … Read More
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Cardrona Distillery Single Malt Central Otago Pinot Cask
Cardrona Distillery Single Malt Central Otago Pinot Cask 700ml 52%abv $353 Just 362 bottles of this exclusive whisky were hand bottled in its second batch on December 2 2024. Drawn from French oak pinot noir barrels, this insanely deliciously, exotically-structured whisky roars with honey-buttered, scorched stonefruit, sultana-soaked Christmas cake batter, smoked fig and toasted pecan … Read More
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Oraterra Martinborough Pinot Noir 2023
Oraterra Martinborough Pinot Noir 2023 $80 Wilco Lam’s first Pinot Noir for Martinborough’s new Oraterra brand is a lightly, yet elegantly structured example that’s had 18-24 days on skins inside large, 100% new, predominantly Austrian 500L oak puncheons. Sourced from clones 5, 10/5 and Abel from the McCreanor vineyard in central Martinborough, the result is … Read More
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