Wine reviews and news from New Zealand by Sue Courtney http://www.wineoftheweek.com en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 GMT Copyright 2012 Sue Courtney http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 16 May 2012: I love the Wine Me Up name of my Radio Live wine segment on Wednesdays. And I love taking in wines that my radio host loves. I've been doing the show with Andrew Patterson the last few weeks ... he's loved every wine I've taken in. It seems we have totally synchronised palates [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/D8JyKTyOMlM/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120516 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120516 15 May 2012: After reviewing the absolutely delicious Wyndham Estate George Wyndham Founders Reserve Shiraz 2008 on Radio Live with Andrew Patterson last week, someone asked me, "Where do I buy the wine?" A bit remiss of me not to actually say on the radio but time flies away on the air [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/tNq69HYPJPM/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120515 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120515 9 May 2012: On July 1st this year, Wine Options, the wine identification guessing game that many New Zealand wine lovers and their friends have played over the last 30 years, is coming to an end. Kingsley Wood, who has organised the game since its inception, says it is time to call it quits. Eleven years ago I interviewed Kingsley [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/st-ITS-Sido/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120509 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120509 7 May 2012: An advantage of living in a wine region is proximity to vineyards. And when it's harvest time, there's nothing I like better that getting amongst the vines - to have the opportunity to taste the grapes, to taste juice if lucky, and to smell the magic scent of new wine [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/Tfw8eDZvrbM/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120507 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120507 2 May 2012: Getting the heads up in a wine magazine can do wonders for a brand. And even if we haven't heard of the magazine before because it's not on general distribution in New Zealand, or not aimed at consumers, it's something for the wineries to brag about when they are featured [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/3G5Q_3vGOiY/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120502 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120502 1 May 2012: I've been following the progress of Wright's Wines the last few years. It's easy to do because they send out a terrific and informative regular e-letter. Geoff Wright and his wines first came to my attention at a Gisborne Wine Festival many years ago (adored the gewurztraminer), then later when Wrights became the first wine label in New Zealand to put vegan friendly words on the label [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/xm10UaVY0XQ/blog201205.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120501 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201205.htm#20120501 23 Apr 2012: Wine of the Week - the stunning Forrest Marlborough Chenin Blanc 2010. One of the wines I grew to enjoy immensely, after my life-changing first taste of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and the discovery of glorious Gewurztraminer, was Chenin Blanc [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/_2g1v0zOmT0/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120423 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120423 16 Apr 2012: "Samantha Hayes is doing Drive next week," said Radio Live's Drive Show producer Mark Wilson when I finished my on air wine chat just before Easter. I knew nothing about Samantha other than she used to read news on TV3 [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/LGq81iAEbhQ/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120416 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120416 11 Apr 2012: If you listened to my wine segment on Radio Live Drive last week (4th April) I talked about different kinds of wine shoppers. The basis for this came from a survey of 3500 shoppers by Constellation Wines in the USA. They came up with six categories and found that more than a quarter of the people they surveyed were 'overwhelmed' by wine [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/dkK7qNZCef8/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120411 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120411 10 Apr 2012: If was to review a wine varietal a day, starting at the beginning of the alphabet with the letter A, I'd start with Arneis. But that could because a couple of new Arneis wines just happened to come my way. Arneis is an ancient grape variety that can be traced back to the 15th century Italy [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/5jdt2t0vJ-Y/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120410 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120410 19 Mar 2012: Not one Wine of the Week this week, but three. Delectable treasures from a cellar, opened for a birthday, all stars in their very special way. [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/369_EOSenyE/wine120325.html http://www.wineoftheweek.com/archives/wine120325.html http://www.wineoftheweek.com/archives/wine120325.html 18 Mar 2012: The 2012 Royal Easter Show Wine Awards escalated some new names and labels into the limelight at the Trophy presentations last night, Clark Estate and Two Degrees amongst them [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/T4kqR7zeQCo/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120318 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120318 17 Mar 2012: What is New Zealand's greatest red wine? The answer will depend who you ask. But there will be no argument as to what is Hawkes Bay greatest Cabernet-based red. It is Coleraine, made by Te Mata Estate and named for Coleraine in Northland Ireland where owner John Buck's grandfather came from [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/WJs2Fr27Mh0/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120317 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120317 14 Mar 2012: It's the night after the night before. You pour yourself a glass of the leftover young red. 'That's funny," you think, because it tastes so much better than it did before [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/jyiUAdKPaqA/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120314 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120314 11 Mar 2012: It was good to catch up with Misha and Andy Wilkinson and winemaker Ollie Masters at Misha's annual lunch at the Grove in Auckland's CBD. I passed up the invitation last year because [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/uZj8seEAyz0/blog201203.htm http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120311 http://www.wineoftheweek.com/blog/blog201203.htm#20120311 31 Jan 2012: "Liquorice staples. I taste liquorice staples in this Riesling," I exclaim. I just loved those sweet treats when I was young - a 1-cm narrow pipe of liquorice coated with hard candy - a suckable bullet of deliciousness. [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NzWineOfTheWeekAndSueCourtneysVinousRamblings/~3/Slh9ChSwGdU/wine120318.html http://www.wineoftheweek.com/archives/wine120318.html http://www.wineoftheweek.com/archives/wine120318.html