Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Suave and Virile...


It all started with this...

The new issue of Cuisine Magazine is out today and features a comprehensive New Zealand Pinot Noir tasting. 244 wines to be exact and the 2007 Sandihurst Waipara Pinot Noir was rated 5 stars and came in at Number 2 on the list ! Brilliant news for us. The judges described the wine as suave and virile expression with great flavour complexity.
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This is on the back of our 2007 Central Otago Pinot Noir winning Gold at the London International Wine Challenge earlier in the year and a previous Liquorland Top100 Gold for our 2006 Canterbury Pinot Noir.
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Less brilliant from this tasting was the fact that only one Waipara wine made the top 10 (ours) and nearly half the wines tasted failed to acheive a 3 star rating - this from NZ's signature red. But more on that at a later date. Right now we are still lapping up our success.

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