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Giving some summer lovin’ to our longtime customer favourite.
All florals and spice on the nose (as it should be with Viognier). But Daniel’s Viognier is unique to his peers with restrained alcohol and no oak aging making for a more refreshing, cooler style. Make this your wine for Thai take always or an Indian dinner, this Viognier can handle the spice.
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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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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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The team at Tablas Creek Winery in California is forging ahead into a new frontier, high-end box wine. Here at Decibel we will be closely following the results as it goes into the market. You may recall that we looked into alternative packaging and trialed canning our Giunta Sauvignon Blanc back in 2019 and while…
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The first thing I should do is clear up any confusion from our last email. There were at least a few of you who thought we were leaving New Zealand for good. Nothing is further from the truth! I’m just amidst a long trip mixing lots of work with a bit of down time with…
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It’s NZ Rosé day this Saturday! Dan talks through this year’s vintage and where you can get this wine to celebrate along with us. Decibel Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2021 Made from Pinot Noir, this wine jumps out of the glass with fresh fruit and floral aromatics and while very soft at first finishes with lots…
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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,…