{"id":4167,"date":"2018-11-13T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/flavours-of-new-zealand-2018-wine-fair\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:52:56","slug":"flavours-of-new-zealand-2018-wine-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/flavours-of-new-zealand-2018-wine-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavours of New Zealand 2018 – Wine Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would seem New Zealand took a lot of my time in 2018 and once again I tasted their wines at this year’s New Zealand wine fair – the stand outs and tastiest wines are below – some with just scores, and some you can link through to for a full review … interesting to note that no Sauvignon Blancs were harmed during my tasting:<\/p>\n

Astrolab 2015 Pinot Noir<\/span>, Marlborough … *** ½+<\/strong>
Babich 2016 Black Label Pinot Gris<\/span>, Marlborough … *** ½<\/strong>
Babich 2017 Black Label Pinot Gris<\/span>, Marlborough … *** ½+<\/strong>
Babich 2016 Black Label Pinot Noir<\/span>, Marlborough … ****<\/strong> (full review<\/em><\/a>)
Forrest Wines 2017 The Doctor’s Rosé<\/span>, Marlborough … *** ½<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giesen Estate 2017 Pinot Gris<\/span> … *** ½+<\/strong>
Greywacke 2015 Pinot Noir<\/span>, Marlborough … ****<\/strong> (full review<\/em><\/a>)
Kim Crawford 2012 Small Parcels Fizz Sparkling<\/span>, Marlborough … ****<\/strong> (full review<\/em><\/a>)
Kim Crawford 2016 Chardonnay (unoaked)<\/span>, Marlborough … *** ½<\/strong>
Loveblock 2014 Pinot Gris<\/span>, Awatere Valley … *** ½+<\/strong>
Loveblock 2014 Pinot Noir Bendigo<\/span>, Central Otago … *** ½<\/strong><\/p>\n

Te Awanga Estate 2014 Syrah<\/span>, Hawke’s Bay … *** ½+<\/strong>
Sacred Hill 2016 Orange Label Pinot Noir<\/span> … *** ½<\/strong>
Toi Toi 2016 Clutha Pinot Noir<\/span>, Central Otago … *** ½+<\/strong>
Whitehaven 2017 Pinot Rosé<\/span> … *** ½+<\/strong>
Whitehaven 2014 Pinot Noir<\/span>, Marlborough … ****<\/strong> (full review<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

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It would seem New Zealand took a lot of my time in 2018 and once again I tasted their wines at this year’s New Zealand wine fair – the stand outs and tastiest wines are below – some with just scores, and some you can link through to for a full review … interesting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}