Swift Wines Bridge Pa Triangle Whole Bunch Chardonnay 2021 $36 Cardoness Vineyard in Hawke’s Bay’s Bridge Pa Triangle is in conversion to organics and it’s where winemaker Lauren Swift has sourced the Clone 15 and Mendoza fruit from for this richly-styled, fresh-as-a-daisy chardonnay. With aromas of caramelised oak, fresh popcorn, grilled grapefruit and edged with … Read More
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Swift Wines Bridge Pa Triangle Chenin Blanc 2022
Swift Wines Bridge Pa Triangle Chenin Blanc 2022 $36 Fretting that the only local chenin blanc you’ve tasted seems to be a touch sweet? Help has arrived in the form of Lauren Swift’s shiny, new, intensely dry example which boasts a lift of apple skin, lime zest, and quartzy, chalky minerality. The palate is beautifully … Read More
Pegasus Bay North Canterbury Sauvignon Semillon 2020
Pegasus Bay North Canterbury Sauvignon Semillon 2020 $34 Buy. This. Wine. Now. Go! Goddamn it!! I don’t even know how to start telling you how incredibly delicious this wine is. It’s been a long time since I’ve just been so moved by a wine that I literally feel like running out into the street to … Read More
Mills Reef Reserve Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022
Mills Reef Reserve Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022 $22 Super-attractive nose showing pear strudel spices and creamy quince and apple notes, soft peach and nutmeggy magic which all flows through onto the palate in a wave of soothing, refreshing, cleansing crispness. It’s a lovely, beautifully balanced style showing layers of stylish complexity and a long … Read More
Blackenbrook Nelson Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Blackenbrook Nelson Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $20 Grown in the mineral-rich Moutere Clays of coastal Nelson, this sauvignon has that ultra-floral signature the region is famous for. Aromas of apple, peach and lemony complexity combined with lemongrass and bright mandarin make for a juicy, satisfying sauvignon indeed. Soft herbaceousness and personality up the wahzoo, means this … Read More
Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Tempranillo 2021
Trinity Hill Gimblett Gravels Tempranillo 2021 $39.99 Trinity Hill first bottled tempranillo back in 2002, from a single barrel, making just 25 dozen bottles. They were one of the first wineries in New Zealand to leap into tempranillo and since then they’ve become an absolute force for good. Especially when it’s from one of Hawke’s … Read More
Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernets Merlot 2020
Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernets Merlot 2020 $40 If I were in a hostage situation and the gunman said “Somebody better tell me what’s the greatest local Bordeaux-style red wine that I can buy for under fifty bucks, in the next five seconds or the granny gets it!” I would be hollering “Te Mata Awatea … Read More
Cloudy Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Cloudy Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $37 Arriving in a new bottle embossed with ‘1985’ Cloudy’s foundation year and bearing a unique, glass-relief depiction of the iconic view of the Richmond Range overlooking the vineyards, the 2022 vintage is scented with classic green pea, capsicum and tropical, passionfruity, peachy characters. On the palate, the layers … Read More
Petane Wines Kōtare Block Hawke’s Bay Gamay 2022
Petane Wines Kōtare Block Hawke’s Bay Gamay 2022 $30 Grown at their Eskdale vineyard, this is the very first bottling of Gamay for Petane Wines. Handpicked and fermented with partial carbonic maceration (where whole berries are left in an oxygen-free environment to ferment inside their own skins) and then pressed into older, neutral French oak … Read More
Petane Wines It’s Only Hawke’s Bay Gamay Piquette 2022
Petane Wines It’s Only Hawke’s Bay Gamay Piquette 2022 $22 Winemaker Philip Barber has had a crack at this ancient, yet newly trendy style by using gamay grape skins, rainwater, a few baskets of pinot gris and a decent 60lt splash of gamay juice which was re-fermented for 5 days in tank to close to … Read More