A long weekend always gives us a great opportunity to escape the region for a day or two, in our case we popped over the hills to Marlborough to spend a couple of days enjoying the wine and food the…
Two years ago a small group of wine writers in New Zealand decided it was time to establish a semi-formal group of writers with the aim of encouraging excellence in wine writing and to agree some standards so those who…
In recent years I have spent some time each year helping students at NMIT’s hospitality course learn about wine. Working with these young people is always a rewarding experience for me; they often don’t drink wine at all but service…
During the first weekend of March each year two wine events are held, the Nelson Wineart Degustation Dinner and Auction in support of the Suter and the Kahurangi Long Lunch. This year we attended both, we didn’t really have much…
Way back in 2001 almost everyone (me included) thought decent wine came in bottles with a cork in the neck; anything with a screwcap was either cheap plonk in 2.5 litre bottles or sweet sherry. It is pretty obvious that…
If you enjoy wine as much as I do I hope you have treated yourself to a fine glass or two over the summer holiday season, I certainly have. What makes a wine special totally depends on the consumer, it…
In the last few columns I have been telling you about the 2013 vintage along with other events and people in the wine industry I find interesting. It may have only been six weeks since the frantic 2013 grape harvest…
While the heavy rains and flooding in Nelson that destroyed homes and land just before Christmas last year was headline news the impact on the wine grape growing sector has yet to be fully determined. Rainfall statistics show some of…