Drummond Farm Back Block Martinborough Pinot Noir 2017 $29 Bricky-red in the glass, this 3yo pinot noir is cantering along nicely. Showing layers of savoury spices, freshly-turned earth, smoked rhubarb, wild strawberries, redcurrant and there’s even a slight creamy complexity underlying the spices. Unfined, unfiltered and crafted with minimal sulphur additions, it’s a rumpty, robust … Read More
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Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Noir 2018
Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Noir 2018 $31 Just a baby, this pinot noir crafted by Alex Muir, is dedicated to his Dad “for all the words of wisdom and reassuring arm over the shoulder moments”. He’s two rows of each clone planted and co-fermented them together to create a signature style from their land. Plump … Read More
Drummond Farm Back Block Martinborough Pinot Noir 2018
Drummond Farm Back Block Martinborough Pinot Noir 2018 $29 Alex Muir has crafted an unfined, unfiltered pinot noir with only the bare minimum of sulphur added from his Back Block vineyard and it’ll definitely appeal to those who like their pinot light and spicy. Its a softly-styled example with a slightly funky vein running through … Read More
Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Noir 2017
Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Noir 2017 $31 I really love how on the label of this bottle it says very succinctly “harvested in 2017, matured in barrel until 2018 and finally bottled in July 2018”. It gives you a quick scan of how their winemaking season runs for pinot noir. Unfined and unfiltered, with only … Read More
Maison Noire Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2020
Maison Noire Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2020$20 This Provençale-style rosé from French winemaker Guillaume Thomas is lipsmackingly dry, layered with soft redcurrant and cherry characters and stiched together with attractive spices. Ultra-fresh acidity and a super-succulent texture make for a sunny day in your mouth no matter what the weather. Cleansing, feisty and full of personality. … Read More
Maison Noire Hawke’s Bay Arneis 2020
Maison Noire Hawke’s Bay Arneis 2020 $22 Guillaume Thomas has been crafting some of the best local Arneis I’ve ever tasted, and clearly this Italian variety (nicknamed Little Rascal due to its fussy, tricky nature) thrives in the lime and clay soils of his tiny vineyard on the Waimarama Road. Crammed with creamy nectarine, peach … Read More
Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Gris 2018
Drummond Farm Martinborough Pinot Gris 2018 $24 Alex Muir and Leah Creaven are the forces behind Martinborough’s newest splash in the wine pond and they’re determined to educate people that it’s what’s NOT in the bottle that makes it distinctive. Produced at a positively demure 9.5% alcohol and showing clean, lightly-styled, apple and greengage plum … Read More
Drummond Farm Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc 2019
Drummond Farm Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc 2019 $20.40 I tasted this wine as a cleanskin sample and it was a roasty, toasty example packed solid with stonefruit tones and showing a creamy complexity on the finish. Punchy and slightly wild at heart, its a ripe, rumpty style that has loads of potential. Very food-friendly too. Soft … Read More
Zephyr Marlborough Chardonnay 2019
Zephyr Marlborough Chardonnay 2019 $31.99 This bright like a yellow diamond 2019 release is one that any chardonnay fan will enjoy I’m sure. That’s because it’s just darn yummy, beautifully balanced, fat and juicy, with a bit of smokiness, ripe grapefruit flavours and buckets of baked nectarine and creamy, crushed almond, characters. There’s a lovely … Read More
Pegasus Bay Prima Donna Waipara Pinot Noir 2010
Pegasus Bay Prima Donna Waipara Pinot Noir 2010 $120 Ivan Donaldson planted the first vineyard in Canterbury back in 1976, ten years later, together with his wife Christine, he established Pegasus Bay. Today all four of their sons and two spouses are all involved in the business and it’s fair rocketing along. Prima Donna is … Read More