Claymore Voodoo Child Clare Valley Chardonnay 2018 $25.99 Cast your eyes past the slightly morbid pin-sticking pic on the label and get your nose stuck inside the glass instead, then you’ll be met with a whiff of lemongrass and white peach, white pepper and lime. Grown in a non-irrigated (dry-farmed) site in Watervale in the … Read More
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Colere Moutere Valley Nelson Pinot Noir 2015
Colere Moutere Valley Nelson Pinot Noir 2015 $37 Grown in the rich, Moutere clays, this pinot noir was made by Michael Glover, a winemaker completely devoted to extracting everything good from those special sites in the Nelson region that rock for pinot noir. Organically grown and shepherded into the glass, this wine has a dried … Read More
Colere Hope Valley Nelson Semillon 2016
Colere Hope Valley Nelson Semillon 2016 $25 Well if you thought you were in for a smooth and saucy time with this semillon think again because the acidity is bangaranging! Freshly baled hay, dried watercress, smashed lemongrass and peppery perfume on the nose, maturing on the palate into secondary, nutty, smoky notes. Super-dry and funkified … Read More
Claymore Wines Dark Side of the Moon Clare Valley Shiraz 2018
Claymore Wines Dark Side of the Moon Clare Valley Shiraz 2018 $29.99 Sourced from Claymore’s dry-farmed, non-irrigated Watervale and Penwortham vineyards, this is cool-climate shiraz that’s soft, elegantly structured and shows delicate berryfruit, spice and earthy intensity in the mid-palate. Impressively structured, fine-grained tannins, a smoke and graphite-like core, white pepper and blueberry complexity and … Read More
Colere SolEra Marlborough Pinot Blanc-Pinot Gris NV
Colere SolEra Marlborough Pinot Blanc-Pinot Gris NV $33 Gorgeously golden in the glass, this blend of pinot gris and pinot blanc comes from the Kerner Vineyard, one of New Zealand’s most renown vineyard sites. So how has it been constructed? Essentially winemaker Julian Richards has cleverly blended one-barrel of 2012 Pinot Gris/Pinot Blanc Blanc with … Read More
Bald Hills Last Light Single Vineyard Central Otago Riesling 2018
$28 If winemaker Pete Bartle ever makes a riesling that isn’t exceptionally balanced and beautiful then I want to know about it. Sourced from a single hectare of vines grown in the Bald Hills Bannockburn site that are planted in such a way as to soak up the very last rays of the late afternoon … Read More
Paynter’s The Pict Pear Cider
Paynter’s The Pict Pear Cider 330ml $88.90 (24 x 330ml btls) New from multi-award-winning cider producers, this pear-predominant sip has a decent splash of cider apples in the mix as well. So you get all pungent pear intensity on the nose and palate yet the ripe apple injection creates a tropical burst of flavour that’s … Read More
Bostock Wines Vicki’s Vineyard Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2017
Bostock Wines Vicki’s Vineyard Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2017 $50 I deliberately left this wine for a year from release to taste it because from what I’d read about how it was made, I figured a little time would really elevate things immensely. Sometimes I do actually have ideas that work out for the best because … Read More
Paritua Stone Paddock Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2020
Paritua Stone Paddock Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2020 $19.95 From the talented hands of Hawke’s Bay’s Merlot King himself, comes Jason Stent’s new rosé for Paritua’s Stone Paddock range. Crafted from merlot grown in the deep, iron-rich, red gravels of the Bridge Pa Triangle district, this rosé has a full, fleshy, peppery tone to it, while … Read More
Lawson’s Dry Hills Marlborough Ranu 2020
Lawson’s Dry Hills Marlborough RANU 2020 $28 This is only the second RANU produced by Marcus Wright and his winemaking team at Lawson’s, and I for one am very happy to see it. Very happy because I am an unashamed fan of the blended white, and this one happens to be a full, rich, rock … Read More