Michael Cooper
Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2011

 

The non-vintage wine (***1/2) on the market in early 2010 tastes like a decent Côte-du-Rhône. Blended mostly from 2007 wine, estate grown in the Gimblett Gravels and barrel-aged, it is plumy, nutty and spicy, in a flavoursome, savoury, earthy style with considerable complexity. Drink now.