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New Zealand chardonnay is scaling new heights, reports John Saker
A mountain of chardonnay awaited the Cuisine panel at it latest tasting. With 49 of 153 wines achieving four stars of more...
Prestige Collection Chardonnay 2009
Big wine, mouth-filling in its flavours and nicely balanced as winemaker Rod McDonald does so well. A fine, well constructed Hawke’s Bay wines, true to style and certainly lets us know it is present. Ideal for robust dinner flavours – and as long a future as we want to give it.
from Afternoons on Friday 27 January 2012
Cheap and Cheerful Mount Riley Marlborough Riesling 2011
($12-$16) Mid Price Magic Haha Marlborough Pinot Noir 2010 ($19) Treat
Yourself Osawa Wines Prestige Collection Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2009
($45)
Joelle Thomson – Your WeekendIf this wine isn’t worth a splurge, then tell me what is. It’s the innate freshness of the citrusy flavours in...
Besides earthquakes and volcanoes, Pacific rim archipelagos New Zealand and Japan share a love of wine. That - and a desire to make his own wine...
