Mills Reef Reserve Hawke’s Bay Gewürztraminer 2024 $22 On your marks, get set, and GO directly to my pick for the BEST VALUE gewürztraminer for the summer. It’s Paddy Preston of Mills Reef started out making kiwifruit wine in Tauranga. He was darn good at it too. But a few years into it, back in … Read More
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Tiki Single Vineyard North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2023
Tiki North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2023 $20 – $23 There’s something so pure and true in this expression of gewürztraminer. Sourced from the braided river gravels of the North Canterbury, it shows classic lychee, rosewater, and musky spice notes that add extra layers of loveliness to a palate that’s already sweet, generous, honeyed, luxurious, and just … Read More
Blackenbrook Nelson Gewürztraminer 2023
Blackenbrook Nelson Gewürztraminer 2023 $26 Hand-picked from the biggest crop in the 20year history of Daniel and Ursula Schwarztenbach’s existence making wine at Blackenbrook, this gewürz boasts classic Turkish delight, peach and soft ginger notes on the nose and palate. Crisp, clean, not overly sweet, in fact very well balanced from a tricky vintage. GOLD … Read More
Main Divide North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2022
Main Divide North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2022 $21 From a cooler-than-average summer, comes a spicy, zesty gewurztraminer which boasts all the classic aromatics I love (lychee, ginger, manuka honey and jasmine) but injects baking spices like clove and nutmeg alongside dried citrus peel and crystalised mango. It’s a plump, plush, sexy thing to sip, yet has … Read More
Blackenbrook Nelson Gewürztraminer 2022
Blackenbrook Nelson Gewürztraminer 2022 $22 From Nelson’s famous Moutere Clay soils comes the new vintage of one of my favourite gewürz producers. 2022 was a tricky vintage, but the Blackenbrookers have done an excellent job of creating a clean, spicy-driven, exotically-textured wine showing all the good stuff that we want in good value gewürztraminer. Rose … Read More
Pegasus Bay Waipara Gewürztraminer 2021
Pegasus Bay Waipara Gewürztraminer 2021 $30 This wine is so beautifully balanced, it’s like the liquid equivalent of a Simone Biles beam routine. Released in the 30th anniversary year of Peg Bay brilliance, this gewürz glows with candied lychee, crystalised ginger, a whiff of white pepper, persimmon and showing a soft, creamy, peachy undertone. Clean … Read More
Fairmont Estate Block One Gladstone Terraces Gewurztraminer 2018
Fairmont Estate Admiral Hill Gladstone Terraces Gewurztraminer 2018 $22 Intensely spicy on the nose, ginger, white pepper and even a tweak of marjoram merge with classic Turkish Delight, peach, honeysuckle, and delicious richness. Baked apple complexity, luxurious spices and a gorgeously long finish. Love it! Fairmont Estate
Crab Farm Hawke’s Bay Gewürztraminer 2020
Crab Farm Hawke’s Bay Gewürztraminer 2020 $22 Lifted aromatics of ginger, lychee, musky notes and nutmeg-sprinkled quince literally leap out of the glass and blend with fresh apple and peach on the palate. Classically styled, refreshing, spicy and needs a good 45-minute chill before serving. Crab Farm
Main Divide North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2020
Main Divide North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2020 $20 Here ye gewürztraminals!! My What’s Your Wine Wednesday highlight is the glorious Main Divide North Canterbury Gewürztraminer 2020 ($20) from the frisky folk at Pegasus Bay Winery. It’s crammed with juicy lychee and punchy, peachy flavours, edged with ginger and spice and layered with luxurious textures from start … Read More
Gibson Bridge Reserve Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2016
Gibson Bridge Reserve Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2016 $30 Five years on from vintage and this wine is maturing into something you’d definitely want to take out to dinner and maybe invite back to yours for a nightcap and some Netflix. Quite the opposite of those blousy, sweet, commercial styles – this one is musky-dry and spliced … Read More