Score: 88/100 Score 88/100 The Gimblett Gravels winegrowing area is a sub-region of the Hawke’s Bay of New Zealand’s North Island. It is defined by a rather unique stony soil type deposited in the local river bed. Trinity Hills’ wine called ‘The Gimblett’ is a...
Score: 90/100 Score 90/100 The Envoy Range represents the highest level in Spy Valley offering, a winery famous and respected for its aromatic wines in particular. The Envoy Riesling tasted today is sourced from the Johnson Vineyard, in the Wahopai valley, a sub-zone of...
Score: 88/100 Score 88/100 Tasting Notes: A wine with great exuberance in the fruity and spicy aromas and flavors. The nose is intensely fruity, super plummy with also heaps of black cherry aromas. It smells like dark juicy stonefruit. There’s also a clear meaty...
Score 90/100 Score 90/100 Tasting Notes: The aromas deliver plenty of stonefruit characters: fresh and dried apricots, as well as dominant white peach notes. There’s honey, muscat grapes too. Classic Gewurz notes on the nose. This is an easy to drink wine that doesn’t...
Score: 88/100 Score 88/100 Tasting Notes: A very fragrant New Zealand Chardonnay from the famous Marlborough region, fresh and lemony, with also plenty of leesy and oaky notes. No need to smell hard to have a wealth of aromas jumping out of your glass:...
New Zealand, as wine country, is most famous for its iconic Sauvignon Blanc that represents more than 70% of the country’s wine outcome. But Kiwi winemakers are also proud of producing a wide range of different wines whose quality is increasing everyday as the terroir and...
Murdoch James is a wine producer situated in the Martinborough region of New Zealand’s South Island, in the South Wairarapa valley. 20 years ago, Roger and Jill Fraser first planted Pinot Noir and Syrah on the Dry River terraces of the Murdoch James Estate’s Blue Rock Vineyard....
Wooing Tree is a family owned single vineyard site and winery, situated in the Central Otago region of New Zealand, next to the town of Cromwell and opposite the “Big Fruit Sculpture” (pictured). The vineyard counts with approximately 44,000 vines planted in 2002, and a...
Update February 2018: The article and Top 20 Wine Influencers List below was published in January 2017, for a more recent list of Social Media wine personalities, follow the link below to the 2018 Top 40+ Wine Influencers List: Update January 2017: The article and Top 20...
While we all know the famous Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc wine style, it is less obvious to many that in New Zealand, low-alcohol wine is becoming a thing. The NZ wine industry and government have been investing over the past few years in research to devellop...
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