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5 Stars and taking the top spot on Cuisine's Best Buy list for offering an outstanding combination of quality and price. Also Gold Medal Liquorland Top 100, Gold & Trophy Royal Queensland Wine Show, Gold Medal New Brunswick Wine Show. Not bad for a wine at this price.
"This elegant, fresh, fragrant wine has floral, berry and liquorice characters of great aromatic quality, no doubt due in part to the five percent Viognier. It tastes persistent and tangy with a firm tannin backbone. Try it alongside lamb with Middle Eastern flavours." Cuisine
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Founded in 1647, Bodegas Chivite is one of the oldest wine producing dynasties in Spain. Over eleven generations, the firm has grown from its original establishment in Navarra to estates in Rioja, Rueda and Ribera del Duero, and become the most important, as well as one of the most respected, producers and exporters of Navarra´s wines.
Embracing the best of the region´s traditions and the technology that has transformed it from the end of the 1980s onward, Bodegas Chivite has forged a reputation for quality and consistency second to none in the "Denominación de Origen".The Chivite Tempranillo brings out the unique characteristics of a this grape variety. Cherry red, bright with purple rim it is intense and fresh. Very fruity with raspberry, cassis, cherry and hints of black pepper.
You would have to say this is one of the best value reds on the market.
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A gem uncovered- made by Simon Waghorn of Astrolabe fame. Named after a local seaweed. "Soft, fruity Sauvingon Blanc with gentle passion fruit and stone fruit flavours. Pretty varietal wine with good purity. Great value at this price." Bob Campbell
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Normally $20- this is a great buy for a quality label.
Gold Medal, Champion Sauvignon Blanc 2011 and Champion Wine of the Show at the inaugural Marlborough Wine Show where more than 400 wines were entered but there could only be one winner. For the last two years in a row it was rated Top 10 Sauvignon Blanc and 5 stars from Cuisine’s Annual Tasting.
Michael Cooper, 5 stars , Wine of the Week (NZ Listener Magazine)
“...Invivo is a label to watch. This punchy dry wine was mostly grown in the late ripening Westhaven Vineyard at Dashwood. Rich and refined, it is tight and minerally, with vibrant, slightly nettley flavours, showing impressive intensity, delicacy, harmony and length
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This is Astrolabe's baby sister and is an absolute steal for the quality.( Pinot Grigio is the Italian name for what we call Pinot Gris ). 4 1/2 Stars in Wine Orbit Magazine "This is even better than last year’s, showing greater fruit intensity. It’s immediately attractive on the nose with gorgeously ripe peach, pear and floral characters. The palate is juicy and lively with a touch of sweetness and bright acidity. The tasty flavours lingers on and on. At its best: now to 2012."
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Dry rose produced from predominately Pinot noir fruit. “Sophie’s Rose, so named after Sophie Findlay of Zambesi who helped design INVIVO’s unique branding, is alluring at first glance. The wine has Beautiful Rose petal colour and aromas for crushed strawberries with a hint of tropical fruit and citrus. The palate is vibrant and full in the mouth with pronounced berry and citrus and sweetness only to balance acidity.
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Normally over $20. Made by the talented team at Pegasus Bay this is always a rich, ripe, mealy styled, good value chardonnay. "This was a special vintage for chardonnay with a warm summer and a lingering, dry autumn. Crop levels were naturally modest but well balanced. Traditional Burgundian methods were used to make this wine, including natural primary and secondary (malo-lactic) fermentation and ageing in French oak barrels for 12 months (sur lie).
A core of ripe, citrus fruit seems to intermingle with hints of stone fruits, such as nectarines, greengages and yellow plums. There are also savoury nuances, suggestive of barbequed sweet corn and grilled bacon. The latter should become more prominent over the next few years. The wine initially appears soft on the palate but gradually expands to become mouth-filling. It retains elegance and finesse with a current of minerality which flows through the wine, drawing out its length.
Well priced consistent chardonnay.
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Starborough was a major supplier to some of Marlborough's top labels- now they save the best fruit for their own label. Normally $20 this is top shelf. "Few boutique producers have the ability to blend fruit from different vineyard sites to maximise the character of their wines, as usually the fruit comes from one site. The Jones family have 110 ha over two sites, the ‘O’Dwyer’s Farm’ vineyard In the Rapaura region of the Wairau Valley, and their ‘Starborough Terrace’ resource in the Awatere Valley. This has a softly full nose of ripe gooseberries, capsicums and tropical fruit notes, open and evenly expressed with some good depth. Dry to taste, the mouthfeel is zesty from fresh acidity, and lusciously juicy on attack with sweet gooseberry and lime flavours, along with hints of passionfruit. 17.0+/20." Raymond Chan ( senior wine judge )
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This has a RRP of $20. Made by the talented Pegasus Bay team. "A La Nina pattern in the South Pacific produced an excellent season. Late picking has given extra concentration and ripe flavours, while barrel fermentation and lees ageing increase mouth feel and complexity. Ripe pear, white peach, tropical spice, pineapple and comb honey abound in the aroma and flavour. On the palate the wine is mouth filling and unctuous, but there is a seam of tangy minerality which flows through the wine balancing its off-dry finish and drawing out its length. Brilliant buying
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