Jules Taylor Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2025 $22-24 If you’ve been looking for herbaceousness, citrus-ness and buckets of tropicality then you’ve come to the right place. Classically structured, showing lovely balance of depth and zestiness and solid length of flavour. It’s a very well made style that’s lipsmacking and lush. Watch video review here Jules Taylor
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Village Vineyards Orchard Road Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2025
Village Vineyards Orchard Road Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2025 $35 Crisp crabapple, ripe peach, whisps of watermelon, raspberry and persimmon plushness create and aromatic and flavourmatic spectrum for this fresh, feisty, new season rosé. Cleansing, softly spiced, dry and showing hints of pink peppercorn, Provençal herbs, white strawberry and a lick of creaming soda to finish. … Read More
Village Vineyards Golden Queen Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2025
Village Vineyards Golden Queen Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2025 $35 Taking on the pale pink hue of having spent some time on its pinky-grey Pinot Gris skins, this wine is singing with fresh, frisky and fanging with red anjou pears, nashi notes, soft baking spices and hints of creamy strudel complexity. Cloudy yet crisp to … Read More
Elephant Hill Sea Hawke’s Bay Viognier 2024
Elephant Hill Sea Hawke’s Bay Viognier 2024 $34 Clearly, Viognier thrives under the baking Hawke’s Bay sun and in the saline sea breezes roaring in from the Te Awanga coastline, and winemaker Hugh Crichton knows exactly how to capture its unique jasmine, citrus zest and apricot-stacked excellence, well, excellently. The new Sea is superbly restrained, … Read More
Čuvar Guardians Cornerstone Vineyards Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot Malbec 2023
Čuvar Guardians Cornerstone Vineyards Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot Malbec 2023 $49 From a cyclone year when everything could have been a washout comes a Bordeaux-style blend that marries classic Cabernet characters of bay leaf, fresh tobacco, blueberry and blackcurrant, with the plummy plushness of Merlot and the meaty, savoury, dusty complexity of Malbec, to create … Read More
Brookfields Reserve Vintage Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot Cabernet Franc 2023
Brookfields Gold Label Reserve Vintage Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot Cabernet Franc 2023 $70 This blend of 70% Cabernet Franc, 16% Merlot and 14% Cabernet Franc is lucky to be alive. Why? Because on Feb 14th, just weeks before the fruit was due to be harvested, the most catastrophic cyclone in 80 years roared through the … Read More
Smith & Sheth Cru Omahu Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2021
Smith & Sheth Cru Omahu Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2021 $80 If you’re a fan of densely textural syrah then this will soothe the throat, clear the nose and shiver all your timbers. Crafted by Steve Smith MW and his team, from fruit grown in one of the holy trinity of Hawke’s Bay vintages (2019/2020/2021), this … Read More
Akitu A2 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Akitu A2 Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $46 Sniffing this wine makes me totally get why people join cults and stop shaving. It’s like a sorcerer throwing magic cherrywood smoke in your face and leading you, zombie-like, away from the crowd to a new life of worship. Red rose, roast beets, tamarillo, and cola combine … Read More
Two Rivers Isle of Beauty Marlborough Rosé 2025
Two Rivers Isle of Beauty Marlborough Rosé 2025 $22 This is what happens when winemaker Dave Clouston is let loose to create his own version of a crunchy-crisp, Corsican rosé. A snappy-dry, mineral-rich style bursting with pink peppercorn, crabapple, yellow plum, zesty raspberry and a hint of creaming soda gushes forth. Pure, cleansing and crammed … Read More
Known Unknown Eskdale Chardonnay 2021
Known Unknown Eskdale Chardonnay 2021 $30 Four years on from vintage, this wine, crafted from unirrigated grapes grown on the now non-existent Petane Vineyard site in Eskdale, this Chardonnay is wild, nutty, layered with preserved lemon and scorched pineapple. Cloudy in the glass due to being unfined and unfiltered, and fabulously feral, it’s an unusually … Read More