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
Author: Yvonne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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