Wine reviews and news from New Zealand by Sue Courtney http://www.wineoftheweek.com en-us Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:00:01 GMT Copyright 2013 Sue Courtney http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 1 Apr 2013: New month, new beginnings, new hosting service for http://wineoftheweek.com , new blog. Been playing with WordPress. http://www.wineoftheweek.com/wineblog
Please bookmark my new blog and new feed http://www.wineoftheweek.com/wineblog/feed http://www.wineoftheweek.com/wineblog/index.php http://www.wineoftheweek.com/wineblog/index.php 31 Dec 2012: If you have read Part 1 (Dec 20) and Part 2 (Dec 21), you will know these articles are about showcasing the diverse styles of Riesling that New Zealand produces. As explained in Part 1, this was for a visiting Riesling devotee, John Trombley. This final in this series of includes some of the greatest names. http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121231 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121231 21 Dec 2012: When I heard from John Trombley about his impending visit (see previous post Dec 20th 2012), a wine lover known around Internet circles as Riesling Rat and SweetStuff, I knew that I had to show him the Rieslings from Auburn because they are the producers I consider to be most passionate about Riesling, so passionate that Riesling is all they produce http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121221 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121221 20 Dec 2012: Riesling lover John Trombley, from Ohio (and before that, Detroit), emailed me a few months ago to say he and his wife Barbara would be in Auckland for a few hours and could we possibly meet? John and I had been regular wine communicators during the early part of this century. We mused about geology, about rocks in the vineyard, about the word 'minerality' as a wine descriptor and he taught me about AP numbers on German Rieslings http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121220 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121220 13 Dec 2012: Do you live in Auckland? If so, have you been to the Mahurangi River Winery and Restaurant just east of Warkworth? Shame on you if you haven't. It really is a gem of a place to eat good food accompanied with excellent wines. Part of the Matakana Wine Trail, it's somewhere to go to lunch these summer hols, perhaps? http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121213 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121213 26 Nov 2012: Is the price of suitable vineyard land about to go up in what seems to be the most underrated of all Central Otago sub regions? I'm talking about Alexandra, a 25-minute drive south of the region's vinous epicentre, Cromwell. I wouldn't be surprised after some of the enviable feats by three pinot noir producers from there, Grasshopper Rock in particular http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121126 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121126 18 Nov 2012: The gold medal winners from the 2012 Air New Zealand Wine Awards have been announced with 97 gold medals awarded from a total entry of 1367 wines (7 percent). With an additional 183 silver medals and 354 bronze medals, the number of award winning wines numbers 644, just a little under 50 percent. This means http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121118 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121118 12 Nov 2012: On the back of the obscure varieties tasting, see previous post, I head to First Glass Wine ad Spirits' weekly tasting and first up another variety I had never heard of. Grillo http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121112 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121112 8 Nov 2012: What do Osteiner, Cano Blanco, Pecorino, Rebula, Gringet, Petite Arvine, Jampal, Savagnin, Taminga, Alfrocheiro Preto, Babic, Cabernet Genischt, Bobal, Fumin and Teroldego have in common? http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121108 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201211.htm#20121108 31 Oct 2012: What a grand occasion it was at Villa Maria's 50th birthday celebrations last Friday. Five hundred guests, including the Prime Minister of New Zealand, descended on the Villa Maria Headquarters in the extinct Waitomokia Volcano in Mangere [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121031 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121031 25 Oct 2012: My list of wines that have won gold medals at New Zealand Wine Shows has been updated with the trophy results of the New Zealand International Wine Show, the gold and trophy results of the International Aromatic Wine Competition held in Christchurch, the gold and trophy results of the Hawkes Bay Regional Wine Awards, the gold and trophy results of the Upper North Island Wine Challenge and the gold medals from the regional Marlborough Wine Show [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121025 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121025 17 Oct 2012: This is for readers of my Urban and Country column although you are welcome to have a go if you stumble across these instructions by chance. These are meant to be simple instructions and photos for making a picnic wine glass holder. All you need is some number 8 wire, pliers, a hammer and a bit of grunt [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121017 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121017 12 Oct 2012: This is the Champions List booklet from the 2012 New Zealand International Wine Show. Bottle images and short descriptions of all of the Trophy and gold medals winners, plus photos of key winners on the night - Champions Wine of Show recipients Crawford and Catherine Brown, Winemaker of the Year Jen Parr and of course Vic Williams [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121012 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121012 2 Oct 2012: One of the big surprises at the NZIWS Awarded Dinner last Saturday night was the awarding of the Sir George Fistonich Medal for a Legend of New Zealand Wine to Vic Williams - the person most surprised, the recipient himself. "I had no idea," Vic said to me yesterday [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121003 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121003 2 Oct 2012: "I'm seating you with some wine producers," said Kingsley. These weren't just any wine producers; they were gold medal winning producers who were coming to the New Zealand International Wine Show Awards Dinner to accept their awards. "You will probably know some of them," he said. And I did. [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121002 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121002 1 Oct 2012: The wineoftheweek.com Trophy for Champion Other White Wine goes to ... This year there were five contenders for the Trophy that bear this website's name - they were the gold medal winners that weren't Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer or Viognier. The wines were: [...] http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/index.htm#20121001 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201209.htm#20121001