What to drink when it's cold and you love white wines
April 5, 2023
"What can I drink when it's cold but I don't feel like red wine?"Good question. Enter Chardonnay. It is often referred to as the red wine drinker's white wine because good quality Chardonnay tends to be full bodied with barrel fermentation, oak ageing and the creamy con...
Five of the best... places to drink outdoors
December 24, 2022
This story was first published in Good magazine, December-January 22/23Where is your favourite place to drink wine? Warmer days and longer nights make the great outdoors seem like the ideal spot and with the classic New Zealand Xmas Day barbecue looming fast, it seemed like ...
Tasting note... 2022 Jules Taylor Chardonnay RRP $22.99
December 20, 2022
18.5/20
2022 Jules Taylor Marlborough Chardonnay RRP $22.99
This is the jewel in the crown of the new releases from Jules Taylor in Marlborough. Rich, creamy, smooth, full bodied, totally dry in taste with citrus flavours but complex oatmeal and toasted almond notes coming t...
Tasting note... 2020 Zen Chardonnay RRP $140
December 3, 2022
This week's WIne of the Week is the third vintage of Zen, one of New Zealand's best quality and highest priced Chardonnays. Does it live up to its name and its price tag? If ever there was a time of year to push the boat out and see, here it is with the silly season upon us....
Is Central Otago Chardonnay the Chablis of the Southern Hemisphere?
November 29, 2022
Central Otago Chardonnay has doubled in volume in the last five years but how’s it tracking in style and quality?
The biggest Central Otago Chardonnay tasting ever held was last week at Felton Road Winery in Bannockburn. I attended, along with four other wine writers...
Dry grown new wine of the week
September 28, 2022
New Chardonnay from old dry grown vines
18.5/20
2021 Tony Bish Skeetfield Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay RRP $67.99
A stunning new wine with bold flavours, a big body and a nuance of creamy appeal made from dry grown Mendoza Chardonnay grapes from the Skeetfield Vineyard. This was...
Friday drinks with Church Road and Syrah
September 9, 2022
A century and a quarter is a long time for New Zealand’s young wine industry and that’s what the winemakers, media and many others in the wine industry, including yours truly, are celebrating tonight at Church Road winery in Hawke’s Bay. The winery makes one of th...
Wines of the week... in homage to Chardonnay Day
May 30, 2022
International Chardonnay Day is on the Thursday before the last Monday in May each year, which means it was last week, making it timely for the release of three new Hawke's Bay Chardonnays from one of the region's key producers. Chardonnay is the world's most popular white w...
Five great whites for Easter
April 14, 2022
Surprising wines from New Zealand's three most popular grapes
Winery founder Rachael Carter of the glamorously named Soho brand featured as our Friday drinks interview last Friday and this week we moved south to North Canterbury over on this blog to meet Cameron Woodhouse, the new chef at Greystone.
In the meantime, with Easter a...
Friday morning drinks with Tony Bish, king of Chardonnay
September 10, 2021
If Tony Bish has anything to do with his own reincarnation, he says he would like to come back as a game changer. Some might say he has already achieved this admirable trait by forging a name for himself as Hawke’s Bay’s king of Chardonnay and in building a family bus...
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