Wine of a very rainy week - Hawke's Bay Albarino
February 24, 2023
Saturday 25 February 2023Rain continues, heartbreakingly, to fall in Hawke's Bay where water levels start to rise again...As we contemplate the last weekend of summer in New Zealand, many could be forgiven for wondering if the first weekend of summer ever really arrived. It ...
Hawke's Bay Winegrowers launch relief fundraiser
February 23, 2023
Relief is on its way to Hawke's Bay today with the launch of a Cyclone Gabrielle fundraiser by Hawke's Bay Winegrowers Charitable Trust, which will match donations of $30,000, but is encouraging all donations, no matter how small.The cyclone has devastated many vineyards and...
Wine of a horrendous week in Hawke's Bay
February 19, 2023
Reports from friends and winemakers in Hawke's Bay say the devastation is worse than it looks online and on television news. Silt and sludge have washed away lives and livelihoods in New Zealand's second largest wine region, an area known as one of the fruit bowls of the cou...
Homage to Syrah... wine of the week
November 8, 2022
Good vintages come in pairs in Hawke's Bay, as the latest duo of 2019 and 2020 Homage Syrah show. This wine of the week is from the 2019 vintage and while I have had the privilege of tasting (as a critic and wine writer) the 2020, it will not be released for another year... ...
How much would you pay to taste New Zealand's best Syrah?
Questions of best and worst are fraught propositions at the best of times, if you'll excuse the pun and this month's release of the 2020 Gimblett Gravels Annual Vintage Selection reds definitely raises the bar o...
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...
Women in wine profile - MJ from Craggy Range
May 20, 2022
She loves champagne, Riesling and her family and she loathes cork taint. Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson is the woman behind the stories of Craggy Range Wines, a Hawke's Bay winery with more vineyard land in Martinborough's majestic Te Muna Valley. She works as an ambassador for Crag...
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