Rock Ferry The Corners Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2020 $30 If you thought all Marlborough sauvignon blanc was squint-inducingly acidic and packed with passionfruit, then wrap your tonsils around this organic example from Rock Ferry will rock you sideways. It’s softly-styled, showing lemon pith and lime blossom characters, peach and even a tweak of caramelisation … Read More
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Mud House Woolshed Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Mud House Woolshed Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2021 $22.99 Classic mouthfilling sauvignon here, loaded with lemon, lime, soft green herbs, peach and passionfruit, it’s that style that’ll absolutely please the crowds and deliver fruit-induced smiles until the bottle’s gone. Crunchy-fresh and beautifully balanced, it has mid-palate power and flavours that linger long. Nicely made indeed. … Read More
Two Rivers Clos Des Pierres Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Two Rivers Clos Des Pierres Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $30 Made by Dave Clouston, this unique take on chardonnay was hand-harvested, aged for approximately a year in a combo of a large, 4500 ltr French oak fudre and a concrete egg with a 100% malolactic ferment before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. Hence why this feijoa … Read More
Rock Ferry Orchard Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Rosé 2021
Rock Ferry Orchard Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Rosé 2021 $25 Paired with Annabel Langbein’s Rainbow Energy Salad in Canvas Magazine, NZ Herald Sat Nov 6 2021 With pomegranate, beetroot, carrots, chickpeas and more nuts than a dukkah factory, this salad screams out for a deliciously dry, certified organic, biodynamically-grown rosé. Tah dahh! Introducing a crunchy-crisp, apple … Read More
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir Rosé 2021
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir Rosé 2021 $25 I love how this wine smells like it’s going to be all sweet and fruity and cornflower confection, yet as soon as you get it in your gob, it’s deliciously dry, generously proportioned, drizzled with sea salt and shows an edge of savoury and spice and all things … 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
Astrolabe Comelybank Waihopai Pinot Noir 2019
Astrolabe Comelybank Waihopai Pinot Noir 2019 $50 If you hear wine people waffling on about the pinot noir characters that come from Marlborough’s Southern Valleys and you’re struggling to relate, then all you need to do is sip this. The Comelybank site, owned by Jeff and Vanessa Hammond, is located near the confluence of the … Read More
te Pā Marlborough Riesling 2020
te Pā Marlborough Riesling 2020 $19 Sourced from the Wiffen family’s silty soiled Omaka North vineyard, this riesling was picked and pressed in the wee small hours of April 2nd 2020, cold-settled and fermented cool in a stainless steel tank. The ferment was stopped by hard-cooling right when the wine hit that perfect balance between … Read More
Whyte Estate Marlborough Chardonnay 2020
Whyte Estate Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 $22 Well well well. You told the universe that you wanted oak, you wanted roast peach, you wanted creamy, nutty notes, and that you also wanted ripe, tropical sensations and a rich, apricot and nectarine-like mid-palate. Generous and juicy and way too easy to drink. It’s simple and sippable and … Read More
Saint Clair Godfrey’s Creek Reserve Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2020
Saint Clair Godfrey’s Creek Reserve Marlborough Gewürztraminer 2020 $34 Every time the Saint Clair crowd announce they’ve made a Godfrey’s Creek Reserve gewürztraminer, I go into spasms of joy and jubilation. It’s become a New Zealand icon, generous, dry, spice-saturated and showing more lychee and ginger than you can lob a larb gai at, it’s … Read More