{"id":95687,"date":"2017-11-20T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:43:13","slug":"a-brilliant-new-zealand-red-not-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/a-brilliant-new-zealand-red-not-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant New Zealand red – not cheap but a bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spent the afternoon today at the annual New Zealand trade tasting – one of the best of the so-called generic (i.e. country-based) tastings. Each year I’m impressed at how good the overall standard is though it usually confirms my view that New Zealand’s whites outperform its reds – with the exception of Pinot Noir.<\/p>\n

In general I find that that the other reds – mainly Cabernet blends and Syrah – tend to be overworked and over-extracted and after two and a half hour’s tasting was ready to call it a day when the guy at the Adnams’ stand persuaded me to try three wines from the Gimblett Gravels area of Hawkes Bay on the North Island: a Syrah, a Cabernet and most impressive of all – a blend of Cabernet, Merlot and Malbec under the Newton Forrest label called Cornerstone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So this is basically a style of wine that doesn’t hugely appeal to me and which I’m not convinced New Zealand handles particularly well and from a producer (John Forrest) better known for his Sauvignon, Riesling and Pinot Noir. And yet it was fantastic – soft, fluid, elegant, as good as a top-class Bordeaux. And I’m not the only one to think so. In a tasting last year of Gimblett Gravels reds alongside first growth Bordeaux the 2006 Cornerstone came out sixth.<\/p>\n

The best news of all is that it costs only \u00a317.50 a bottle which is a fantastic price for a wine of this class. Snap some up while you can.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the afternoon today at the annual New Zealand trade tasting – one of the best of the so-called generic (i.e. country-based) tastings. Each year I’m impressed at how good the overall standard is though it usually confirms my view that New Zealand’s whites outperform its reds – with the exception of Pinot Noir. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}