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Two fresh wines from Whitehaven for International Sauvignon Day

Pictured above; Marlborough on a typically stunning day If you’re anything like me, you may feel the need to get out and celebrate something (anything) to have a break from being batoned down over the past few weeks, and this Friday 1 May offers an ideal reason to – it’s  International Sauvignon Blanc Day. This wine is the secret of the New Zealand wine industry’s runaway success on the international wine stage because Sauvignon makes up 85.6% of the country’s wine exports. It...

Join me for a virtual tasting this Friday with Whitehaven

Virtual wine tasting party… Friday 1 May at 5pm for 15 minutes of fun Join me for a virtual tasting this Friday at 5pm with one of Marlborough’s first wineries in this country’s modern winemaking industry; Whitehaven, which has a new winemaker called Peter Jackson (not that Peter Jackson) and fresh new 2020 wines fermenting, as I write....

Wines of the week in lockdown, Chardonnays high and low

Chardonnay is the world’s favourite white aand here are two wines which speak for themselves, a tasty humble little French Chardonnay from Macon in southern Burgundy and a big, creamy, complex, nuanced dry white from winemaker Rod McDonald in Hawke’s Bay. ...

Early reports of vintage 2020 in lockdown

Anxiety levels have been running high for many of us lately, but especially so for those who have been allowed to continue working alongside others at a safe distance during Covid-19, such as vintage workers for the wine industry....