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Very few straight Malbec's are availble in NZ. This is a cracker. "A bold and decadent wine that will be a sure crowd-pleaser, this has an impenetrable, youthful, black-purple red colour and a sensational bouquet packed with boysenberry and ripe, spicy black fruits, along with black florals and perfumes. This has plump, dense, ripe black fruits that explode and fill the mouth. Boysenberries, spicy raspberries and dark plums with red liquorice are all present in a near accessible, relatively open and broad palate, compared to the Kidnapper Cliffs’ Bordeaux varietal wines. Yet fine tannins here provide great style and length of line. 100% Malbec from ‘Zone 2’ Kidnappers block in the Gimblett Gravels. Aged 12 months in 25% new French oak 300L hogsheads. 200 dozen made. Drink over the next 8-10+ years with venison and game meat. 19.0/20." Raymond Chan- senior wine judge. Also 94/100 from Wine Orbit Magazine
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One of Metro Magazine's 100 Wines for Summer "Godello is an old Spanish variety that has recently been rediscovered and is creating a lot of excitement. this is an uncomplicated, gentle introduction to its delights, with subtle stonefruit or tropical fruits characters, moderate acidity and a textured, fuller mouthfeel, not unlike chardonnay. Just off-dry, it's a great match with summer seafood or for sipping by the beach on a hot day".
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"Blackenbrook is small ( 4 hectares ) and new ( first wine from 2004 ), so its hardly surprising it's little known outside Nelson. Swiss owners Daniel and Ursula Schwarzenbach have the meticulous approach to winemaking for which their countrymen are famous, while Daniel has some serious winemaking experience under his belt. He has worked for top producers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France, and has judged wine at competitions in Switzerland, France, Germany and China. Its greatest strengths are pinot gris, gewurztraminer, riesling, sauvignon blanc and chardonnay. Quality has crept up in recent years and if it continues, Blackenbrook has a very bright future." Bob Campbell
"The 2010 is a basically dry style. Mouthfilling and sweet-fruited, it is punchy, limey and slightly minerally, showing good freshness and liveliness and a crisp, long finish." M.Cooper
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Just released and long awaited- none was made in 2008. This is one of those creamy smooth classic chardonnays we are so often asked for. This winery knows how to make this style as the winemaker used to be chief winemaker at Seifreids who won countless awards for this style. A single vineyard growen on the Moutere clays. Hand picked, hand sorted, gravity feed, 12 mths barrel aging, 100% malolactic fermentation.
"After ageing for 12 months in new French 500 Litre
barrels, this is an attractively opulent wine with
sizzled butter, bran biscuit and toasted nut flavours
adding complexity to citrus and pineapple
characters.
The wine is built for ageing and we recommend
to enjoy it between now and 2014.
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en primeur price(all up final landed cost)arrives june/july
“Noticeable if deft wood notes frame the very spicy dark berry fruit and warm earth suffused nose. There is
beautiful concentration to the velvet-textured and mouth coating medium-bodied fl avors that are shaped by
relatively fi ne but notably fi rm tannins, all wrapped in a moderately austere and strikingly long fi nish. This
will also need plenty of cellar time to reach its full apogee.” 92-94/100 - Burghound
“(25% vendange entier): Good full red. Pungent aromas of raspberry, crushed stone and white pepper.
Enters with intense raspberry and spices, then turns fi rm and fl oral in the middle, showing superb energy
and sappiness to the primary red fruit and mineral fl avors. With its saline impression of extract and
strong tannic spine, this should evolve in bottle for couple of decades.” 92/100 - Stephen Tanzer
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"A wonderfully complex and quite densely fruited nose features layered aromas of red, blue and black fruits that include ample amounts of stone, game and earth nuances, all of which can also be found on the supple but precise and very serious flavors blessed with an abundance of dry extract on the strikingly long finish. This is terrific and the complexity is outstanding but patience will be required." 92-94 Burghound
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Give yourself a treat- or give someone else a treat for the cellar. Six reds from Europe that will age magnificently. 2 btls of Artazuri Santa Cruz ( Spain ), 2 btls of Lafran - Veryrolles Bandol ( France ) and 2 btls of Fontodi Chianti ( Italy ). Average price per bottle is $52.32
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Normally $29. Here's a grape variety that is so often overlooked but with its beautiful perfume and capacity to enhace our Asian styled cooking its well worth drinking good examples. Because of its thin skin and difficulties in handling good gewurtz. at the right price is hard to find but with Blackenbrooks winemaker having worked in Alsace for many years this certainly reflects in the quality of this wine.
"Delicious now, this Alsace-style beauty has a fullbloomed fragrance and peachy, spicy flavours, gently sweet, rounded and rich. 4 1/2 Stars M.Cooper. Made from sustainable fruit, low yielding hand picked fruit, gavity feed and no filtration. Bliss
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Normally $24. 95/100 from Bob Campbell, Gold Medal International Wine & Spirit Competition, Gold Medal NZ International Wine Show. "Powerful wine with focused, linear flavours. Strong mineral, nettle, green capsicum notes with an influence of passionfruit. Juicy acidity helps drive a lengthy finish. A blend of Awatere and Wairau fruit." Bob Campbell.
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Beautifully presented in a wooden gift box containing six bottles of Torre Muga. Torre Muga is an unfiltered blend of 75% Tempranillo, 15% Mazuelo, and 10% Graciano. Aged 22 months in large (18,000 liters) American oak vats, followed by 16 months in new French oak, and bottled without fining or filtration."Exotically perfumed,syrah-like bouquet of red and dark berries,violet,smokey bacon and graphite,with vanillin oak spice undertone adding an exotic touch.Fleshy,palate-staining cassis and bitter cherry flavours are brightened by piquant minerality and firmed by fine-grained tannins.Cracked pepper and mace qualities come up on the long,silky finish.Extremely suave and strikingly complex wine with excellent balance."
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