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Alcohol Reform Bill comes to close the cellar door

Sounds like there's a large number of NZ wine growers who are none too happy about parts of the Alcohol Reform Bill being headed by Justice Minister Simon Power.

According to the UnScrewed wesbite, local growers have been lobbying hard to repeal a section of the bill that they say will severely reduce the number of cellar door operations, due to the increase in cost for licensing and the stipulation that all outlets have a duty manager.

UnScrewed has started a petition…

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Added by Nick Stanley on October 20, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

New Zealand Rieslings: Discuss.

I love Rieslings. In the last two years of trying to keep track of all the wines I've tasted, Riesling accounts for one in five wines tasted (with only Pinot Noir exceeding Riesling at one in four!). Riesling is so variable in flavour and scent; style and sweetness: and this is what makes it interesting.

New Zealand has plenty to choose from... and sometimes these…

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Added by Alan Macdougall on May 16, 2011 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

The Cabernet Show and The Wine Curmudgeon

In the course of my more regular work I came across a listing for a national conference. I'm not going to say what the conference was because it doesn't matter, but my eye was attracted to the following detail in the event programme:

"We have a Cabernet show on Friday..."

Cool, I thought. Somebody is doing something different for their opening night entertainment. No need for conference meet 'n' greet, games of bingo or a spot of team… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:16pm — No Comments

A case for smaller bottles

Evening comes and I'm cooking dinner. I open a bottle of wine and pour a glass. Food and wine. Wine and food... Dinner gets prepared and the glass gets emptied. I sit down to have dinner and naturally, another glass. You know the rest. After dinner I put the top back on and store the bottle, either in the cupboard or the fridge.

The next night, I'm back in the kitchen, the wine's in the glass. Occasionally the wine has improved for its 24-hour exposure to air. Sometimes I can't notice… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:10pm — 6 Comments

What, no long weekend?

So we come cruising out of Christmas, all laid back from the revelry and the excess and the days spent on holiday. It's hot and the sun's still out but most of us are back at work. Happily or unhappily, either way we're looking forward to the long weekends ahead, just to wallow in that summer spirit a little longer.

Anniversary weekend: check.

Waitangi Day: it's on a Saturday. What? No day off?

That's what I said.

I think it's great to see that as nation… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Debunking the myth

Everyone knows this myth, it's been kicking around for years. You hear it dropped into casual conversation a lot. At dinner parties, barbeques, work functions, in fact anytime you get a few women and men together. One of those innocuous little urban legends that gets repeated so often it gets taken for gospel, like the one that has kind Bill Gates dividing up his fortune and all you need to do to get a slice is forward a chain email to your contacts. Or others that assert there's a huge hole… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Bathing in the wine lake

Anyone with even a passing interest in wine should have heard about the wine lake. I say that because I've heard about it. At first I wasn't sure it could be true. That was around the time I was getting interested in things vinous and it was hard to believe there could be too much wine sloshing around in the world. Especially here in NZ, where it seemed new vineyards were popping up all over the place and established wineries were planting more and more land in vines. It was like a liquid gold… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Steward, a Shiraz

You'll be pleased to know that I drank that little bottle of Shiraz. Very nice it was, too; not at all affected by its weeks in the tropics and miles travelling with the dirty laundry in the bottom of my bag. Aside from being cute and handy, the size of those bottles – a quarter of a normal bottle – are perfect when you want just one drink with dinner. Of course, they're equally good when you can ask the steward for another one, just to make sure you were right in enjoying the first… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

On the road to . . .

Blog = “short for weblog; a personal online journal that is frequently updated”.

Right.

Okay, it's personal and it's online but as far it being frequently updated, well, I've been lax. I admit it. My Mum used to tell me that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But it's not that I haven't meant to write, it's just that... I took off for Bali with the best of intentions; I was going to whip up a blog over there, drop into a… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 3:58pm — No Comments

Stepping out

Spring!

Or should that be Sp-riing?

That word's got a good feeling, right? There's something about it. Like you're jumping for joy. Especially when the sun's been out for days and days, you can sit outside to eat your lunch in a t-shirt, and it's still light after 6 o'clock in the evening.

Winter? What? It's so last month.

I was never a great believer in the theory that Spring actually started on September 1. It seemed like a convenient date for everyone to… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 3:56pm — No Comments

Greetings

I just came in to introduce myself, to say hi. My credentials read something like this: Nick, lover of wine. There are lots of other things I love as well. The ocean and the waves that pass across it to break on the shore. The sun that could shine every day and I wouldn't begrudge it. Flavoursome food, good tunes and words, travel, and the odd challenge. But wine's where I step in here. I'm no sniff, swirl and spit connoisseur but I appreciate the stuff. The intensity and the subtly, the… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Postcard from Fiji

I'm writing this from Fiji. I didn't expect to still be here; I should be on a plane home right now but the offer of more time in the tropics was just too tempting. Mid-winter chills or more balmy days by the sea? There's no contest.

I'm staying with friends who live here. They've got a house, a small boat, and have shown me a little of the life away from the plush resorts. Each to their own, but I'm not much of one for… Continue

Added by Nick Stanley on September 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Wairarapa Pinot Noir ranks among the world's best

Gladstone Vineyard, a small but growing family business based in the Wairarapa, with an established reputation as a quality boutique wine producer, strikes gold with its 2008 pinot noir.

Gladstone Vineyard’s Pinot Noir has scooped gold for a fifth consecutive year, collecting its latest accolade from one of the most prestigious and influential independent wine competitions, the International Wine Challenge in London.

Owner… Continue

Added by johnno on September 10, 2010 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Bottle of the sexes

Men and Women are different. We'll raise a glass to that. So do men and women taste wine differently?

Dr.Linda Bartoshuk's seminal research on taste sensitivity carried out at Yale Medical School in the 1990's is a much quoted and discussed scientific background to this. The response to paper laced with PROP (6 n-propylthiouracyl a thyroid medication) placed on people's tongues revealed wide differences in their response to bitterness.… Continue

Added by lovewine on September 10, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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