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Brand new wine here, see what Dan has to say about it.
A citrus bomb with a hint of sweetness to offset the classic varietal acidity that makes for great drinking now or cellaring for years to come. Grab take away from your favorite Sushi place and crack this one open!
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On tough harvests and the changing marketplace for wines. This year in Hawke’s Bay and Martinborough (Wairarapa) we are seeing some challenging conditions where our talented growers had to fight off quite a bit of pressure with powdery mildew. The wet spring was followed by a very dry and hot stretch until early February where…
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On Wine Competitions This week we received the results from the 2021 New Zealand International Wine Show. I have been wanting to enter my wines into this particular competition for many years. However, it seemed each year I would forget when the deadline is and miss it. Finally late last year I entered just about…
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We’ve taken a long look at the old wine club and decided we could do better. Introducing the Bandwagon Subscription, a subscription-based wine club that you can hop on or off whenever you need to. Gone is the rigid structure that sends predetermined wines with a set number of shipments a year. With the Bandwagon,…
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On Crunchy Red wines. Harvest hit us fast and hard this past Saturday with some gorgeous organic fruit; Chardonnay and Pinot Noir both destined for new certified organic wines. The Chardonnay portion will go into my first official foray into the ‘Pet Nat’ space. I made my first Pet Nat style wine in 2012, well…
Holly Girven Russell
Parmigiana di Melanzane It’s been muggy beyond belief across New Zealand this last week and while turning on the oven during these conditions may be the last thing on your mind, if you too are laden with ripe eggplants and tomatoes and a garden full of basil, this recipe is worth the extra lick of…
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This week we will announce the inaugural winner of the Hawke’s Bay Writing Scholarship. A few folks on the HB Winegrowers’ Board reached out to me back in winter to help develop this as a way to nurture local writing talent. I hopped on the opportunity. This is because I feel strongly that, like in…