Kōparepare Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020 $21 The Koparepare wines are crafted by the clever-clogs kids at Whitehaven to support LegaSea, a not-for-profit organisation created by the NZ Sport Fishing Council to raise awareness of the fragility of our marine environment. Funds from the sale of every bottle help them do their good work, and we’re … Read More
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The Marlborist Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
The Marlborist Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $50 Look out Marlborough wine fans, there’s a new brand in town. Two years of development by three wine industry old-hands, good chums and crazy risk-takers led to ‘The Marlborist’ project being launched in mid-2020. The debut pinot noir and sauvignon blanc by David Nash, Stuart Dudley and Rich Ellis … Read More
Smith & Sheth Cru Wairau Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Smith & Sheth Cru Wairau Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $30 Paired with Winter Greens and Almond Pesto with Pasta in dish Magazine Issue 104 Winter 2022 Pair the herbaceous heft of this green machine recipe with the crunchy-crisp, passionfruit, jalapeno and citrus-stacked Smith & Sheth Cru Wairau Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 ($30). Crafted from old … Read More
Forrest Marlborough Chardonnay 2021
Forrest Marlborough Chardonnay 2021 $28 Golden in the glass and dishing up delicious aromas of grilled grapefruit, roast nectarine, a burst of butterscotch and a dusting of almond, this chardonnay is fresh, frisky, fulsome and laced with pineapple and cinnamon. Generously proportioned and juicy from sip to swallow, it’s got great energy, vibrancy and toasty … Read More
Tinpot Hut McKee Vineyard Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2018
Tinpot Hut McKee Vineyard Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2018 $25 Crafted from grapes grown in Marlborough’s Awatere Valley (which, if separated out from the rest of the province, would be New Zealand’s second-largest wine region), this grüner from winemaker Fiona Turner is drier and has more depth of spice and minerality than much of the lighter, … Read More
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020 $35 Paired with Annabel Langbein’s Spicy Duck Noodle bowl recipe in NZ Herald Canvas Sat 28th May 2022 Ah 1994. Nancy Kerrigan got kneecapped, Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s president, Michael Jackson married Lisa-Marie Presley, and we used Netscape Navigator to browse the newfangled internet thing. It’s also when Sue … Read More
Seresin Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Seresin Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $25 If jalapeños are your jam then this certified organic, biodynamically-crafted sauvignon blanc is going to seriously spin your wheels. Grown in Seresin’s Raupo Creek vineyard, fermented using naturally occurring, wild yeasts and matured in a mixture of old oak vessels before being blended with a 9% splash of semillon … Read More
Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2020
Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2020 $25 If you like your riesling to assail your olfactories with apple, lime zest and a lick of magical minerality, you’ve done a perfect parallel park my friend. Punchy acidity, pure pipfruit and crunchy citrus and the unmistakable rain-on-hot-asphalt punch of petrichor, make this an ultra-refreshing sip. It has excellent length … Read More
Honest Horse Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Honest Horse Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $40 (for two bottles) Craig and Tamara Plunkett are the faces behind Plunkett Estate. They might be a new wine enterprise in the Spring Creek subregion of Marlborough, but their family farm has a long history of being very horsey, hence the name. I often find Spring Creek sauvignon … Read More
Allan Scott Steytler Stellenbosch + Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Allan Scott Steytler Stellenbosch + Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $16.99 A first for me, tasting a New Zealand-South Africa collab sauvignon, and it’s really really interesting. Both the Scott family in Marlborough and the Steytler family in Stellenbosch machine-harvested a parcel of sauvignon blanc at night and processed the juice into wine. Both wineries then … Read More