Giesen Fuder Series Clayvin Marlborough Chardonnay 2017 $48-$52 Sourced from one of New Zealand’s OG and most famous certified organic vineyards, this chardonnay is like a bottled version of a headline act at Glastonbury. Dua Lipa, Coldplay or Janelle Monae for example. It’s supremely talented, crammed with energy and vitality, and is quite frankly, intensely … Read More
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Giesen 0% Sparkling Brut
Giesen 0% Sparkling Brut $20.99 Hands down this is one of the best zero alc sparkling wines I’ve ever tasted. Crafted from a blend of sauvignon blanc and pinot gris which has been put through a spinning cone system of dealcoholisation, this sparkling has soft lemon and pear notes, a generous mid-palate mouthfeel and boasts … Read More
Giesen The Augūst Barrel Fermented Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Giesen The Augūst Barrel Fermented Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $40 Pronounced ‘Aww-goost’, this wine is a reverential nod to German restauranteur, hotelier, sommelier, and all-round, early 20th-century hospo legend August Giesen, ‘Opa’ to brothers Alex, Marcel, and Theo. It’s the company’s flagship sauvignon blanc, yet it’s so far away from traditional styles, it needs its … Read More
Giesen Estate New Zealand Riesling 2022
Giesen Estate New Zealand Riesling 2022 $12-$15 Paired with: Masala Fish Curry in the NZ Herald CANVAS magazine 11.3.2023 This chirpy little supermarket staple has won so many awards over recent decades that the Giesen brothers have had to add support struts to the trophy cabinet to cope with the weight of all the heavy … Read More
Giesen Clayvin Vineyard Marlborough Syrah 2021
Giesen Clayvin Vineyard Marlborough Syrah 2021 $55 This is one of those young red wines that tastes great on the first pour but tastes amazing the next day. Erupting with dark berries on the nose, blackberry, boysenberry and blueberry notes, alongside a vein of pepper and dark cocoa and smoky oak, this organically-grown wine is … Read More
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019 $27 This is one of those wines I keep buying and re-tasting and over the last year it’s just getting more and more delicious. Ultra-friendly, juicy and chock full of cherry and hedgerow berries. Sweetly spiced and softly smoky, it’s edged with cocoa and clove and finishes ripe and … Read More
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Giesen Uncharted Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $28 Erupting with roast apricot, pineapple and cinnamon toast characters on the nose and sending the palate into an apple-edged, peach party on the palate. The monster 2020 vintage has seriously delivered something delicious. Fat, juicy and jumping with energy and tension, it’s a rich, ripe, facewallop of a chardonnay … Read More
Giesen Reiler Goldlay Mosel Riesling 2018
Giesen Reiler Goldlay Mosel Riesling 2018 $22 After emigrating from Germany back in the 1980s and building a hugely successful wine business here in New Zealand, the three Giesen brothers doubled back and purchased a small, terraced vineyard in the village of Reil on the banks of Germany’s Mosel River, a place famous for turning … Read More
Top wine and beer picks for Queen’s Birthday Weekend 2021
Yvonne Lorkin’s top wine and beer picks for Queen’s Birthday Weekend 2021 5 Jun, 2021 By: Yvonne Lorkin Ah, we’ve reached the Queen’s Birthday side of the year. The ducks are quacking, the stags are on the roar, mushrooms are mushrooming and the days of foraging for figs and feijoas are finished. Daylight saving is also long … Read More
Giesen The August Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018
Giesen The August Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018 $41 Named after the grandfather of brothers Marcel, Alex and Theo Giesen; August (Aww-goost) was born in 1888 and became a sommelier, restauranteur, hotelier and total party animal who loved liquid refreshment, the ladies and the high life in that order. After a particularly large night he overslept … Read More
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