Zephyr: Marlborough gets interesting in the hands of Ben Glover
Website: https://zephyrwine.com/about.htm Ben Glover made his reputation as a winemaker working for Brent Marris at Wither Hills, and later Mud
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Highlights: The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022
This is a blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling from organic vineyards in North Canterbury. They are fermented
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The Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay collection 2021 vintage: some of New Zealand’s best Chardonnays
Hawke’s Bay has a had a good run of recent vintages, despite the awful floods that hit in February 2023,
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Spoke: a new range of boutique wines from New Zealand’s Marlborough region
Website: https://vineyard-productions.com/wine/spoke/ Marlborough is home to some big wineries. By my reckoning there are five that each process more than
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Marlborough at 50: Tohu, the first Māori-owned and operated winery in New Zealand
Website: https://www.tohuwines.co.nz/ Over recent years, the New Zealand wine industry address some of the historical imbalances that saw Māori culture
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Akitu: top Pinot Noirs from Wanaka, Central Otago
Website: https://akitu.wine/ (with notes added on the latest releases, April 2023) Central Otago isn’t just a single region. It’s composed
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Marlborough at 50: tasting three of the region’s best-known Sauvignons on camera
I popped into a local supermarket and found these three popular Sauvignon Blancs from the 2022 vintage, took them home,
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Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection
So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region
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Marlborough at 50: Dog Point, one of the region’s leading smaller wineries
Dog Point was started by Ivan and Margaret Sutherland and James and Wendy Healy, who previously worked together at Cloudy
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Marlborough at 50: the remarkable Yealands story
‘Think boldly, tread lightly, and never say it can’t be done:’ that’s the official motto Peter Yealands chose for the
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