Alana Estate Freedom Nelson Pinot Gris 2020 $22 If you like your pinot gris on the crisp, crunchy-fresh side, then this will tickle your pinks. Hints of fig, nashi pear and scorched stonefruit merge with white pepper and clean mineral-laced textures on the palate. Dry, focused and fresh. The Alana Estate whanau are hellbent on … Read More
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Bryterlater Still Life North Canterbury Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Bryterlater Still Life North Canterbury Sauvignon Blanc 2022 $39.99 With its scorched capsicum nose, compacted lawn clippings, bruised basil and lime layers on the nose and palate, it’s a complex, high-acid, fun, feral style. Barrel fermented then aged on lees for a further 10 months, the clear wine then has a portion of its lees … Read More
Supernatural Wines The Green Glow 2022
Supernatural Wines The Green Glow 2022 $39.90 The Green Glow 2022 comes from the famous Millton biodynamic vineyard in Gisborne and is a totally different take on what we’d normally expect from a muscat-dominant style. 66% muscat was blended with 34% marsanne and its dry, textural effect is the result of combining whole berry carbonic … Read More
Nockies Palette Waitaki Pinot Gris 2023
Nockie’s Palette Waitaki Pinot Gris 2023 $32 Bracingly fresh and showing classic chalky, nashi and yellow plum characters, this snappy-dry pinot gris is grown in one of the toughest places in the world to grow grapes, Waitaki, on the South Canterbury-North Otago border, on the banks of the Waitaki River. Textural, mineral-driven and creamy on … Read More
Dame Diesel Central Otago Chardonnay 2022
Dame Diesel Central Otago Chardonnay 2022 $26 With its 1990s Tank Girl-style cartoony label and distinctly lemony aromatics, it’s an edgy, grapefruit-laced style of chardonnay that’s super-youthful and citrus-focused. Bracing acidity and a whisker of toasty oak and spice make this a chardonnay not for the faint-hearted. For how to buy contact the team at … Read More
Moko Hills Central Otago Chardonnay 2021
Moko Hills Central Otago Chardonnay 2021 $59 Donald van der Westhuizen has god-given grape-growing talent and it’s evident in this cleansing, crunchy-fresh, peach and pineapple-edged wine from the schisty slopes of Bendigo. Two chardonnay clones (UCD15 and B95) were gently whole-bunch pressed directly into French oak barrels and left to ferment naturally with the indigenous … Read More
Mondillo Central Otago Riesling 2022
Mondillo Central Otago Riesling 2022 $30 Classic Jazz apple, white peach, fresh-squeezed lime juice and Winter Cole pear combine with honeysuckle notes to create an eruption of citrus-based aromas and flavours. Grown on the slopes of Bendigo, it’s zesty, crunchy-textured and lengthy, it also has a cute and very elaborate depiction of a barcode on … Read More
Obliix Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023
Obliix Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023 $23 Fact: when people find out you like wine, they’ll ask what your favourite wines are, and when this happens to me, I can never think of the name of any wine I’ve sipped in my entire life. But this new sauvignon by Sir George Fistonich is stamped in my … Read More
Čuvar Iris Collection Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023
Čuvar Iris Collection Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023 $26 Deep in the Awatere Valley there’s a vineyard called Ballochdale, located at the lofty heights of 300m above sea level. It’s a special spot where sauvignon blanc grapes thrive and produce bright, lemony-fresh, penetrating wines with melon, bruised basil and green capsicum complexity. It’s a style championed … Read More
Čuvar Guardians Series Rivermere Vineyard Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021
Čuvar Guardians Series Rivermere Vineyard Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2021 $44-$64 If great chardonnay is your jam then best you go out and buy a loaf and get buttering! This Hugh Crichton-honed new release is stacked with creamy, baked peachy goodness, a lick of grapefruit and perky popcorn-laced aromas and it bursts with citrus and softly … Read More