Mr Glover Marlborough Chardonnay 2019

8 April 2020By Yvonne

Mr Glover Marlborough Chardonnay 2019 ($27) This wine is exactly what I’m looking for in chardonnay.  In terms of fruit concentration, it’s epic.  In terms of oak-soaked tropicality, it’s epic.  In terms of having peachy, shortcakey complexity and all the makings of being a bad boy in a bottle, it’s again, epic.  Fresh acidity accentuates … Read More

Zephyr Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2019

27 March 2020By Yvonne

Zephyr Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2019 $29 West of the Gin Wharf and the Whitebait Pozzie, on the Northside of the Opawa River, lies the Stopbank Block, and that’s where the Glover family have their gewürztraminer grapevines growing in deep, Kaiapoi silt loam soils.  Back in 1988 Owen Glover began converting the family dairy farm to vineyards … Read More

Zephyr Marlborough Chardonnay 2017

25 March 2020By Yvonne

Zephyr Marlborough Chardonnay 2017 $27.99 Reviewed for NZ Herald Canvas Magazine March 28 2020 – paired with Annabel Langbein’s Cheesy Vegetable Gratin recipe. Comfort food like this deserves comfort wine, right?  Well there’s no reason why that comfortable, cuddly wine can’t also be whipcrack sexy at the same time.  That’s all a’happening with the Zephyr … Read More