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See Our collected works – a guide. Of all the many geographically sorted collections of wine reviews we present this...
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When Julia headed to New Zealand to judge in their most prestigious wine competition, the Air New Zealand Wine Awards...
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See also my introduction to Waipara and North Canterbury and notes from the regional tasting.
Below are my notes on...
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See also my introduction to Waipara and North Canterbury and notes from the Waipara regional tasting.
These are my notes...
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See also my introduction to Waipara and North Canterbury.
This tasting, designed to give me an introductory overview of Waipara...
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Updated 18 November 2013: after correspondence with local soil scientist Dr Philip Tonkin, Lincoln University, who is involved in a...
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For the background to these visits, see Waiheke Island – an introduction. Below are my tastings notes, with brief introductory...
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See also my tasting notes on the Waiheke Island wines. The overall quality of the wines I tasted over a...
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More non European Pinots in today's tasting article: a collection of tasting notes on the latest releases from the determinedly...
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Every year Langton's auctioneer Andrew Caillard makes a selection of the best reds produced in the Gimblett Gravels unofficial subzone...
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You can never revisit the past, but sometimes all you have to do is travel a little bit to be...
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Every year New Zealand Wines in the UK stages a new release tasting but it is inherently self-selective, as so...
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This is a prelude to Julia's and Richard's notes on an array of new releases of NZ wines recently shown...
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The full results of the Air New Zealand Wine Awards were announced yesterday following the awards dinner on Saturday night...
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For non-New-Zealanders, New Zealand place names can be very confusing. All those Ts, Ks and Ws. The other day at...
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New Zealand was strutting its stuff last month in London with a tasting of wines that had won silver, gold...
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