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Nelson - Other, Nelson, New Zealand
"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
"Grown in the Tasman district, harvested by hand and lees-aged in stainless steel tanks, the 2009 vintage is a dry style.
Aromatic, it is fresh, vibrant and punchy, with good intensity of gooseberry and lime flavours, racy and long." 4 1/2 Stars M.Cooper
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Kumeu River Wines, Auckland, New Zealand
Both the Kumeu River Estate and Maties Chardonnays make Wine Spectator U.S.A. Top 100 Wines of the Year and have done for many years. "...Grown at Kumeu in West Auckland, it is powerful, with rich, beautifully interwoven flavours and a seductively creamy texture..." M.Cooper.
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Nelson - Other, Nelson, New Zealand
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. "Exotically perfumed, Alsace style, hand picked very ripe and still very youthful, with substantial body and a sliver of sweetness. Fresh pear and spice aromas, with lovely richness, delicacy and harmony on the palate." 4 1/2 Stars M.Cooper
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Nelson - Other, Nelson, New Zealand
Gold at the Bragato Wine Awards. Made by the ex chief winemaker of Seifreids and with many vintages at a very famous winery in Alsace, Blackenbrook wines have burst on the scene in Nelson. This is an excellently priced, quality pinot gris that got 4 1/2 Stars in Winestate Magazine "Powerful style based on estate-grown grapes, hand-picked at over 25 brix. Floral and very ripely scented, with concentrated peach, pear and spice flavours
in a distinctly late harvest style with apple strudel and honey notes." 4 1/2 Stars M.Cooper
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Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand
With the larger sized bottles keeping wine fresher these magnums are drinking beautifully. A great present or for the dinner party, we grabbed a small parcel of these with open arms. "N.Z.'s most internationally acclaimed wine is highly sought after from Sydney to New York and London.
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Canterbury/Waipara - Other, Canterbury/Waipara, New Zealand
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. Off dry in style and 12% alcohol this is a stunning wine for this tiny quality conscious producer. Its a blend of Pinot Gris/ Riesling/ Gewurztraminer.
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Wairarapa/Wellington - Other, Wairarapa/Wellington, New Zealand
Normally $22. Julicher have been producing superb pinot noirs so we were surprised when they started raving about their chardonnay. Having tried it we to were that impressed so we got a great deal on this tiny production chardie. Located on the Te Muna Terraces which are situated 5 km east of Martinborough village. "This attractive well-balanced Chardonnay displays a nose of apples, zesty lemon, creamy fudge and honey. The palate is of savoury complexity, toast and biscuits, zesty acidity, with great length and a rich, luscious mouthfeel." Excellent priced Martinborough chardonnay from a great vintage
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Kumeu River Wines, Auckland, New Zealand
This is the third release of this by Kumeu River. Made in exactly the same way as the other top Kumeu Wines in that its hand harvested, whole-bunch pressed, indigenous yeast fermentation, 100% barrel fermentation, 100% malo-lactic fermentation and 11 months maturation in barrel. "This wine is produced from a vineyard owned by Tim and Angela Coddington whose grapes have made a portion of the Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay since 1998. It is a vineyard that produces very rich and unctuous Chardonnay that we have often thought could make an excellent single vineyard wine. In 2006 they decided to give Coddington single vineyard status to reflect this vineyard's unique character. The wine from the Coddington vineyard shows the typical ripe peachy fruit we expect from this site. The palate is forward with a luxurious creamy texture and lovely balancing acidity. This wine, while delicious in its youth, will benefit from a period of bottle maturation of two to four years.
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Marlborough - Other, Marlborough, New Zealand
Seriously limited from the Calvert Vineyard in Central. The 10ha site has three of NZ's leading wineries making their pinot from it with Felton Road and Craggy Range being the other two. ( Its situated 500meters away from Felton Block 3 and 5 ). "Previously at Nelson's Neudorf Vineyard, Mike Weersing has produced a remarkably restrained, very smooth, perfectly balanced, highly perfumed and complex wine." N.Z.Herald. Why not buy all three pinots from the Calvert Vineyard and examine how three of NZ's finest pinot producers each handle their fruit.
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Peregrine, Central Otago, New Zealand
"The best pinot we've ever produced' are the words Greg Hay used for this tiny 1000 bottle production. A masterpiece selected from 4 barrels out of 700 and has been two years in the making. With the normal Peregrine Pinot Noir taking out 5 Gold Medals and named 'Australasian Wine of the Year' by Winestate Magazine- the first time a Pinot Noir has ever been awarded this tittle- it is with much anticapation we offer our tiny allocation of this gem. A beautiful steel inlaid label on the French bottle, which then has its own individual numbered brushed steel cyclindrical canister to hold the bottle in. This has to be the best presented wine we've ever seen. A rare gift to treasure.
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