Next world wine trend good for New Zealand?
One of the world’s leading wine innovators and Australia’s leading champion of cool climate viniculture, Ross Brown, has said the next world wine fashion leader will be pinot noir.
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Marlborough conditions favour new releases from Wither Hills
An outstanding ripening season two years in a row has resulted in two exceptional vintages from award-winning winery Wither Hills.
Germans scoop pinot taste off, New Zealand struggles
In a London pinot noir tasting event organised by the German Wine Institute, German wine took out seven of the top 10 placings, with the French selections showing no signs of top quality, and only one New Zealand wine, Felton Road Block 5, squeezing in a number eight.
Fruity misfortune
Police are investigating an unusual crime in Germany – the disappearance of almost 2,500 kilograms of pinot noir grapes.
Wooing Tree wins gold
Central Otago vineyard, Wooing Tree has won gold at this year’s New Zealand International Wine Show for its 2009 pinot noir.
Hawkshead scoops medals nationally and overseas
Two golds and a silver are the latest medals recognising the high quality of Hawkshead wines grown and produced in Central Otago.
Give winemakers a chance to excel
The announcement last week that the Government is providing $12 million in funding for researchers to develop top-end Sauvignon Blanc wines for the international market is the latest in a long line of weird decisions made by New Zealand Winegrowers. If nothing else, this waste of public funds should trigger a total revision of the structure under which independent winegrowers are obliged to operate.
Central Otago awash in Pinot Noir
The glamour New Zealand wine region of Central Otago, well known amongst international wine enthusiasts for the quality of its Pinot Noir wines, is up to its knees in surplus wine, mostly its much-vaunted Pinot Noir. More than 300,000 litres from 2009 vintage remains unsold, more Pinot than from any other region.
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