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It was a New Zealand clean sweep in the best value gold medal–winning Pinot Noirs at the 2011 Decanter World Wine Awards.
Image: Rippon Estate, Wanaka, Central Otago
While Burgundy remains the home of Pinot Noir, value is often hard to find. Yet in New Zealand, despite the current strength of the New Zealand dollar, quality comes at a fraction of the price of a Burgundy.
The average vine in New Zealand is still relatively young in European terms, so the best is hopefully yet to come. In the winery, producers are stil experimenting with the variety including whole bunch fermentation trials to provide more structure yet it seems the style is already pleasing to the Decanter judges.
by Rebecca Gibb – The UK has become a nation of wine-drinking ‘discount junkies’, fuelled by constant price promoting in supermarkets, a new survey claims.
The latest report from market research specialists Mintel has found that 55% of all Britons who purchase wine to drink at home buy ‘depending on which has the best discount’.
Sigi Hiss – Zweifelsohne in der Normalflasche schon selten anzutreffen, ist der 1990er Grüne Veltliner Smaragd Vinothkfüllung vom Weingut Knoll aus der Magnum eine Rarität. Auch so GUT wie RAR? Die Auflösung ist hier 1990 GV Vinothek Knoll MAG zu lesen.
Aufgrund der Witterungsverhältnisse dieses Jahres ist mit teilweise atypisch niedrigen Säuregehalten und entsprechend hohen pH-Werten des Leseguts zu rechnen.. Das Ministerium für Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz Baden-Württemberg hat daher eine Änderungsverordnung in die Wege geleitet, die die kürzlich erfolgte Ermächtigung des Bundes zur Zulassung der ausnahmsweisen Säuerung ausschöpfen wird. Im Vorgriff auf diese Rechtsanpassung wird eine Säuerung von Most und Wein des Jahrgangs 2011 in
With the present to inform you that we have finally released our PINOT NERO 2006 and VERDUZZO (DRY) 2007… available also in MAGNUM (1,5L) format…
This summer we have bottled 2666 bottles of SCHIOPPETTINO 2005 and all of them are sold already. As many of you knows these were the only 2000 litres we produced in the winery in 2005. At the end of August 2011, we plan to bottle our SCHIOPPETTINO 2006 already.