Posted: April 26, 2017
A drink-young style, this medium-bodied, vibrantly fruity wine has citrusy, slightly peachy and spicy flavours, showing good depth. (From Greystone.)
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Crisp and lively, this light wine (9 per cent alcohol) is gently sweet, with satisfying depth of tangy, citrusy flavours, showing a touch of bottle-aged complexity.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Fine value North Canterbury red, full-bodied, generous and smooth. Bright ruby, with good depth of cherry, plum, dried herb and spice flavours. Softly textured, with some complexity, it’s already enjoyable and should be at its best 2016+. (From Limestone Creek,…
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Enjoyable young, this is a light ruby red, with moderately concentrated, ripe cherry, plum and spice flavours, a hint of dried herbs, some savoury complexity, and a well-rounded finish.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This youthful, medium-bodied wine is citrusy, slightly biscuity and buttery, in a cool-climate style with fresh acidity and a creamy texture. Best drinking mid-2016+.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Medium-bodied style with pear, lemon and spice flavours and a touch of complexity from fermentation in tanks and oak puncheons. Elegant, hand-picked style, currently quite youthful and restrained; open 2016+.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This fragrant, fleshy wine is powerful (14.5% alcohol) and creamy-textured, in an Alsace style with a sliver of sweetness, balanced acidity, and strong stonefruit and spice flavours. Drink now onwards.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This high-flavoured wine was hand-picked, fermented with indigenous yeasts and barrel-aged for a year. Pale yellow, it is mouthfilling, with ripe, peachy, mealy flavours, hints of toast and butterscotch, and impressive complexity, harmony and length. Drink now or cellar.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Deep ruby, mouthfilling and supple, this classy young red was hand-picked, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured for 11 months in French oak barriques (28% new). Silky-textured, it has strong, ripe plum and spice flavours, with a hint of dried…
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This mouthfilling, elegant wine was hand-picked, fermented with indigenous yeasts in French oak (20% new), and given a full, softening malolactic fermentation. Very fresh and finely balanced, it has rich, pure, citrusy, slightly peachy flavours, gently seasoned with oak, good…
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Full of youthful vigour, this richly varietal red was hand-picked, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured for nine months in French oak barriques (33 per cent new). Deep ruby, it is mouthfilling, vibrant and supple, with very good concentration of…
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