Borsao Viña Borgia Organic Garnacha 2020 $19 Paired with Stir-Fried Beef with Green Beans, Gochujang and Kimchi in dish Magazine Issue 104 Winter 2022 With all the heat and heft of the chilli in this recipe, you’d be wanting to slip down the sweeter side of the street. The Borsao Viña Borgia Organic Garnacha 2020 … Read More
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Yealands Reserve Marlborough Pinot Gris 2021
Yealands Reserve Marlborough Pinot Gris 2021 $19.95 Well well well. If it isn’t just the crispiest, juiciest, nashiest, apple-and-spice-stacked pinot gris I’ve tried in AGES! Clean, crunchy-fresh and fanging with pipfruit, this vibrant, energetic, multi-layered style is deliciously drinkable. Stylish and showing superb fruit purity. Paired with Moroccan Baked Chicken with Pearl Couscous in Issue … Read More
Forrest Marlborough Chardonnay 2021
Forrest Marlborough Chardonnay 2021 $28 Golden in the glass and dishing up delicious aromas of grilled grapefruit, roast nectarine, a burst of butterscotch and a dusting of almond, this chardonnay is fresh, frisky, fulsome and laced with pineapple and cinnamon. Generously proportioned and juicy from sip to swallow, it’s got great energy, vibrancy and toasty … Read More
Brookfields Reserve Vintage Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot 2019
Brookfields Reserve Vintage Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot 2019 $59 Paired with Thyme Roasted Eye Fillet in dish Magazine Issue 104 2022 “Literally the second I began cooking this excellent eye fillet dish I decided to hurtle around my wine cupboard to find that bottle of Brookfields Reserve Vintage Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Merlot 2019 ($59) I’d … Read More
Tinpot Hut McKee Vineyard Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2018
Tinpot Hut McKee Vineyard Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2018 $25 Crafted from grapes grown in Marlborough’s Awatere Valley (which, if separated out from the rest of the province, would be New Zealand’s second-largest wine region), this grüner from winemaker Fiona Turner is drier and has more depth of spice and minerality than much of the lighter, … Read More
Gladstone Wairarapa Pinot Gris 2021
Gladstone Vineyard Wairarapa Pinot Gris 2021 $24.99 There’s something in the deep, dry, rocky soils of the ancient terraces of the Ruamahanga River that gives Gladstone Vineyard’s pinot gris its deliciously dry superpowers. Spice-stacked and mineral-focused, it has a core (scuse the pun) of pear and green apple which provides the spine for crunchy acidity … Read More
27 Seconds Waipara Riesling 2020
27 Seconds Waipara Riesling 2020 $19 Awesome aromas of citrus jubes, mandarin, honeysuckle and lime-o-rama from woah to go. Incredibly crisp and stacked with crunchy-fresh character, it’s also showing lovely length of flavour and perfectly prickly textures. Nice to see a wine contributing to such a worthwhile cause too (100% of the profits from each … Read More
Linden Estate Peacock Block Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2019
Linden Estate Peacock Block Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2019 $24.99 2019 kicked off what would become one of the most exciting triple-vintage runs Hawke’s Bay’s ever seen. A sequence of superb harvests where spiciness saturated every red grape. Designed for the cellar, youthful and tightly-coiled, this wine also opens up with decanting or swirling. Bay leaf … Read More
Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2020
Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2020 ($32) Slow down, find a spot, indicate and do your best parallel park because you’re going to want to have all your wheels pointing forward to take on this absolute stunner of a chardonnay. Intense grapefruit, roast peach, pineapple and caramelised, toasty oak notes roar out of the … Read More
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020 $35 Paired with Annabel Langbein’s Spicy Duck Noodle bowl recipe in NZ Herald Canvas Sat 28th May 2022 Ah 1994. Nancy Kerrigan got kneecapped, Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s president, Michael Jackson married Lisa-Marie Presley, and we used Netscape Navigator to browse the newfangled internet thing. It’s also when Sue … Read More