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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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One of Metro Magazine's 100 Wines for Summer "The spicy, perfumed nose is unusual, and attractive, while the mouthfeel is surprisingly well textured for the price, and the finish is good. A fresh, off-dry wine for everyday drinking". Also Gold at Air NZ and Trophy at NZ International Wine Show
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Long ago, stone steps were built into this vineyard's steep hillside to help workers reach the vines. The iron-infused, red slate soil produces wines that are muscular and complex, with an intense mineral finish. Wines from Erdener Treppchen are more like a powerful, hard-body rock climber than the graceful ballet dancer of Wehlener Sonnenuhr. They benefit greatly from a few years in the bottle to develop fully.
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"Pale, bright yellow. Deep peach, nutmeg, jasmine and orange blossom on the sexy nose. Rich, supple and sweet, with expansive flavors of stone fruits and spicy oak. Not the last word in complexity, but this big, sexy Meursault is impressively thick and long"92 Tanzer
"As it almost always is, here the nose is spicier still and more refined as well with striking complexity adding compelling interest to the floral, citrus and white fruit aromas. The rich, concentrated and classy flavors possess plenty of extract that confers a seductive texture that carries over to the impressively long and harmonious finish."92 Burghound
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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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Here's a real find. The first vineyard in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury. Grown on limestone soils and cropped at extraordinary low levels. This cool climate produces very fine aromatics and flavours including apple and pear with a hint of spice. ."The 2010 Pinot Grigio is Pasquale’s riper, bolder expression of this grape with a pronounced nose of apricots, honeysuckle, coriander seed and mace plus a hint of musk. Dry, rich and silky in the mouth, it gives plenty of peachy fruit and a long layered finish. Drinking nicely now, it should age gracefully and cellar to 2015+. " 91+/100 from Parkers Wine Advocate.
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Normally $27. Daniel is the ex- chief winemaker at Seifried Estate so this Swiss born winemaker knows how to make aromatics after working in Alsace for many years. 5 Stars from M.Cooper who writes "An emerging classic. The 2010 was hand picked at 25.7 brix.Harbouring 15 per cent alcohol, it is beautifully floral, with fresh, very vibrant peach, pear and spice aromas and flavours, a hint of ginger, slight sweetness (20 grams/litre of residual sugar), and lovely purity, delicacy and richness. Also recommended by Bob Campbell in his 'Best Under $30 Category' in Gourment Traveller Magazine. Made from Sustainable fruit, hand picked with no fining. A very natural product at a steal for quallity gris.
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Coddington Chardonnay comes from a single vineyard about 3 kilometers from the winery that was planted in 1994. The soil here is predominately clay and the vines are all Clone 5. The 2008 Coddington Chardonnay is the third vintage of this wine produced by Kumeu River. Barrel fermented using natural yeasts and about 20-25% new French oak,.100% goes through malo-lactic. The nose is already very expressive displaying really intense ripe pineapple and pink guava aromas with a toasty/biscuit undercurrent and nuances of lime juice, orange blossom and some butterscotch. Very crisp, rich, and medium-full bodied, this opulent, satin textured wine gives a long exotic-fruited finish. It’s temptingly approachable now, though it should drink best 2013-2017+. Around 850 cases were produced." 92/100 Robert Parkers Wine Advocate
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The Tonshiefer bottling of Trocken is a dynamite dry Riesling that is sourced from the Leistenberg vineyard in Oberhausen in its entirety this year, and it is a terrific bottle in the making. The wine weighs in at 11.5 percent alcohol (again all natural- no chapitalization for the dry wines this year at Weingut Donnhoff), and offers up a superb nose of grapefruit, fresh oranges, a very complex base of slate and a pungent topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is medium-bodied, crisp and nascently complex,
with a lithesome, dancing filigree, a lovely core and excellent length and grip on the beautifully balanced finish. I would give this fine bottle a couple of years in the cellar to
allow its secondary layers to emerge. High class juice and again a terrific value. 2011-2025. 89+."Martin Gillman
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