New Zealand – dozens of 2022s
Monday 21 April 2025
• 8 min read
Three varied consignments from the other side of the world with a high proportion of high scores. Above, the team at Valli of Gibbston, Central Otago (photographed by Anna Allan), one of the highest achievers.
Various New Zealand wine regions seem to have got into the habit of sending out carefully selected dozens of the most successful wines from the latest vintage.
Gimblett Gravels in Hawke’s Bay was the first to do this, with the wines chosen impartially by Andrew Caillard MW, to be followed much more recently by Hawke’s Bay Chardonnays. And now, for the first time, I was...
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