Craggy Range Tasting
by Charles Hill On Friday evening, as part of our current New Zealand promotion, we were lucky enough to be joined here at our Banbury HQ by Warren Adamson, European Market Director at Craggy Range, to take us through a great selection of Craggy’s fantastic Vineyard Designated wines, with a special treat to finish from
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C J Pask
Chris Pask wasn’t always a wine man, in a previous life he flew crop dusting planes and whilst working on a contract over the old Ngaruroro river bed saw two things. First he saw farmers struggling with failed crops on the poor, free draining soils and then he realised that those soils weren’t so different
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Waipara
Not to be confused with North Island’s similarly name Wairarapa (this one just has less syllables) has a cool climate and makes sensational Riesling and is another region that is making good Pinot Noir. There may only be 48 wineries here, but that number has doubled in the last five years and things look good
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Nelson
Nelson is New Zealand’s sunniest wine region although it is a little cooler that nearby Marlborough, with rolling hills and a climate that is heavily influenced by it’s proximity to the sea it is unsurprising that varieties that like cool climates and long growing seasons do particularly well. Of course Sauvignon Blanc is heavily planted
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Central Otago
Home to the worlds most southerly wine grapes, despite it’s southerly home it’s the only New Zealand region that isn’t heavily influence by the sea. As in Martinborough Pinot Noir rules the roost, but here it accounts for around 75% of grapes grown. Within the region are several districts which tend to get overlooked in
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Kiwi Terroirist
Terroir is a word that gets bandied about by French wine makers and viticulturists with some degree of abandon. It may be Burgundians talking about the terroir of a specific site, or complaining that noone else understands terroir quite like they do, especially those Bordelais! Of course France doesn’t have the monopoly on Terroir, you
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