A new breed of Riesling, an emerging trend over the last few years here in New Zealand. Lower levels of alcohol (10.5%), bags of flavour and beautiful balance.

And here is ours....Sandihurst Waipara Riesling 2008 For you wine geeks out there, the fruit for this wine is from Waipara, the major contender for NZ's vacant Riesling-capital crown. Picked around 20-21 Brix, lightly pressed and only briefly settled (as to retain a

Cameron Douglas of QuaffTV tastes our Sandihurst Riesling 2007. Take a look and then you be the judge - click on our online shop and order some. We can have it delivered straight to your doorstep in time for dinner on Friday night. Or cellar it, its a really great wine with ageing potential written all over it.

Ive posted this photo here as a reminder to myself that the sky was in fact blue at some point during the summer. We have definitely had more than our fair share of grey and wet this year. Grapes-wise they are behind by around 10 days at this stage of the season here in Canterbury. We will be looking to the (hopefully) ever reliable long dry autumn that Canterbury usually experiences.

Bring on the debate! Interesting article in the New York Times by Eric Asimov with comment on New Zealand Pinot Noir in relation to a recent tasting. The article kicks off under the heading 'NZ Youths with promise' and leads by saying our Pinots have come a long way in the last 10 years and seem to show improvement at every new tasting. Throughout the article interesting points keep cropping up. 20 wines ...

Kung Hei Fat Choy HONG KONG ! Enjoy the start to the Year of the Tiger. Dont forget the fireworks display at 8pm tonight over the harbour. It should be spectacular. And as a reminder you can find the wines of SANDIHURST at the following places. Brought to you by our agents OMTIS. DAH LEE HONG 399 Lockhart Road, Wanchai - Phone 28342959 FINEST LIQUOR DISTRIBUTOR G/F 81 Austin Road, Kowloon - Phone 27306638 KIMBERLEY WINES & CIGARS SHOP G/F ...

New Zealand, as history shows, does not have a very good record at Lords, but when it comes to wine, and not cricket, its quite a different story. Here's some video, courtesy of Warman Media, of the recent New Zealand trade and consumer tasting held at Lords cricket ground in London.

What a brilliant day! The 2010 South Canterbury Wine & Food Festival in Timaru  last Saturday was a  huge success. A new venue this year at the Botanical Gardens which worked really well. It was a fabulous turnout with visitors enjoying the successful combination of great weather, fantastic wine, scrumptious food and live music in aid of Hospice South Canterbury. Our True ...

Claims from a leading academic in Australia recently that the national vineyard area should be reduced by somewhere between 20-30% in order to sorrect the current demand-supply imbalance and focus the countries efforts into reclaiming a higher price point for its wine. Rebecca Gibbs article appeared in Decanter and can be read here.     Is this an over-reaction or is New Zealand in danger of going down a similar route with ...

Looking at this video from the Cortes de Cima winery in Portugal is a reminder to me how the only real point of difference in wine is terroir - that untranslatable, difficult-to-define French word, which is something akin to the combination of individual place/people/practices where each unique parcel of grapes is created. The winery as seen in the video could just as ...