Mt Difficulty Ghost Town Lowburn Valley Chardonnay 2020 $39 Crafted from small parcels of fruit sourced from Mt D’s Lowburn vineyards, this glossily golden chardonnay roars with roast nectarine, grilled grapefruit, buckets of toasted almonds, creamy complexity and bursts of buttery goodness. Beautifully balanced, nougat-nuanced oak notes combine with refreshing acidity and “drink me” personality … Read More
Central Otago
Rockburn Central Otago Pinot Noir 2023
Rockburn Central Otago Pinot Noir 2023 $42 Fruit harvested from Rockburn’s Gibbston Valley Back Road vineyard and their Parkburn vineyard has been shepherded from berry to bottle by winemaker Malcolm Rees-Francis, and every sip contains his signature, gum-tingling style. Prepare for baked rhubarb, dark cherry, 5-spice, black tea and redcurrant characters to wash across your … Read More
Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2021
Domain Road Defiance Central Otago Chardonnay 2021 $35 Graeme Crosbie grows three clones of Chardonnay in his Defiance Vineyard, 809, 1066 and 548, which are the three great clones used by the world-famous, French Grand Crus of Corton-Charlemagne in Burgundy. Central Otago chardonnay is rocking my socks right now and the Defiance is absolutely entering … Read More
Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Hawkesburn Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 From a tiny site where four clones of vines grow high on a terrace above the Bannockburn Inlet, comes a Pinot Noir that erupts with vibrantly bright florals, fresh cherry, redcurrant and spice-dusted rhubarb on the nose. All that aromatic awesomeness osmoses through to the palate, … Read More
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022
Carrick Cairnmuir Terraces EBM Central Otago Organic Chardonnay 2022 $60 I mean you could go through your life happily knowing the Carrick EBM Chardonnay is so named for its ‘Extended Barrel Maturation’. However, I feel that name kind of doesn’t really give enough oomph to its actual fabulousness. So from here on in, I’m renaming … Read More
Chard Farm Mason Vineyard Central Otago 2022
Chard Farm Mason Vineyard Central Otago 2022 $88 Holy Parkburn Batman! The spectacular Mason Vineyard Parkburn Pinot Noir is deliciously soothing, elegantly structured, stacked with rooibos tea, baked rhubarb, dark cherry, intense earthy complexity and soft, suede-like tannins to round out its generously creamy, berry-soaked, pepper-dusted finish. Pricey but lusciously nicey, it’s a pinot with … Read More
Chard Farm Mata-Au Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Mata-Au Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $48 Pronounced ‘matar – oh’, this wine has built a reputation for bringing the very best of the winegrowing talent at Chard Farm into the affordable realm and showcasing the best from their Lowburn and Parkburn vineyards. Mata-Au has a deliciously floral lift of rooibos tea, bright … Read More
Chard Farm The Tiger Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm The Tiger Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 The Hay family’s team at Chard Farm are specialists in single-vineyard Pinot Noir’s and this particular one hails from a tiny parcel of fruit grown in a vineyard located in Lowburn, between Wanaka and Cromwell near the shores of Lake Dunstan. The Tiger has a … Read More
Chard Farm Viper Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022
Chard Farm Viper Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022 $88 The Chard Farm winery, owned by the Hay family, is located on land which was a farm founded by Richard Chard in 1868, an entrepreneurial soul who set about growing produce to supply the local gold miners. The Hay’s have crafted a range of single-vineyard … Read More
Cardrona Distillery Single Malt Central Otago Pinot Cask
Cardrona Distillery Single Malt Central Otago Pinot Cask 700ml 52%abv $353 Just 362 bottles of this exclusive whisky were hand bottled in its second batch on December 2 2024. Drawn from French oak pinot noir barrels, this insanely deliciously, exotically-structured whisky roars with honey-buttered, scorched stonefruit, sultana-soaked Christmas cake batter, smoked fig and toasted pecan … Read More