Bryterlater Still Life North Canterbury Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $39.99 With its scorched capsicum nose, compacted lawn clippings, bruised basil and lime layers on the nose and palate, it’s a complex, high-acid, fun, feral style. Barrel fermented then aged on lees for a further 10 months, the clear wine then has a portion of its lees … Read More
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Supernatural Wines The Quiet Earth Martinborough Pinot Noir Syrah 2022
Supernatural Wines The Quiet Earth Martinborough Pinot Noir Syrah 2022 $55 This natural, unfined, unfiltered red is a collaboration between Supernatural’s owner Gregory Collinge and Lance Redgewell at Cambridge Road wines in Martinborough. Blending a parcel of pinot noir from the Cirrus Estate vineyard with one of Lance’s blends of pinot and syrah from his … Read More
Michael Cooper’s Buyers Guide to New Zealand Wines Comes To An End
Well, this is truly the end of an era. Michael, thank you. For the last 30 years I’ve been poring over your annual Buyer’s Guides. They’ve formed an enormous part of my wine education and appreciation journey and I was crestfallen when they moved from print to online. Now I’m feeling that way again. I … Read More
Supernatural Wines The Green Glow 2022
Supernatural Wines The Green Glow 2022 $39.90 The Green Glow 2022 comes from the famous Millton biodynamic vineyard in Gisborne and is a totally different take on what we’d normally expect from a muscat-dominant style. 66% muscat was blended with 34% marsanne and its dry, textural effect is the result of combining whole berry carbonic … Read More
Supernatural Wines The Paranormal 2022
Supernatural Wines The Paranormal 2022 $45 The fruit for this blend of 65% syrah and 35% malbec was grown biodynamically in Millton Estate’s Te Arai vineyard in Gisborne. Lightly structured at just 10.5% this is an energetic red with rooibos tea, rhubarb, soft pepper and dried herb aromatics which wash into a refreshingly earthy palate … Read More
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Cabernet Sauvignon $27 If you’d told me ten years ago that one day I’d be roaring from the rooftops that Hungarian cabernet sauvignon was going to be my superstar sip, I’d have told you to rack off noddy, Yet that was before this wine by Csányi Pincészet landed on my desk. With … Read More
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Merlot 2019
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Merlot 2019 $27 If you’re a merlot nut, or simply merlot-curious, you might be excited to know that you don’t have to stick with the same old styles from our local heat-traps, finally, we have access to a really interesting style from Hungary! Super-earthy, dusted with cocoa powder, blueberry and brick dust, … Read More
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Kekfrankos 2019
Csânyi Teleki Villanyi Kékfrankos 2019 $27 Lifted, earthy aromatics, brick dust and blueberries, cocoa powder and hints of beefy gamey complexity follow and then saturate the palate. From Hungary, the tannins are fleshy, and smooth, and there’s an almost creamy, savoury character running through it. Kékfrankos is an Austro-Hungarian variety grown widely across the Carpathian … Read More
Dame Diesel Central Otago Pinot Noir 2021
Dame Diesel Central Otago Pinot Noir 2021 $28.50 If the Gorillaz band were going to release a wine label commemorating their GenX wives, this would be it. She looks like a woman very much in need of a glass of wine. This North Otago-grown pinot is lightly-styled and redolent of rhubarb, wild cherry, red berry … Read More
Nockies Palette Waitaki Pinot Gris 2023
Nockie’s Palette Waitaki Pinot Gris 2023 $32 Bracingly fresh and showing classic chalky, nashi and yellow plum characters, this snappy-dry pinot gris is grown in one of the toughest places in the world to grow grapes, Waitaki, on the South Canterbury-North Otago border, on the banks of the Waitaki River. Textural, mineral-driven and creamy on … Read More