Sunday night wine and dinner
Starting with the wine: Mount Maude Kid's Block 2015, hand carried home from the beautiful South Island of New Zealand. This was a wonderful wine, full of pinot fruit and lovely on the palate. So good that I drank 2/3rds of the bottle while my wife drank ...
Yes,the Central Otago pinots
are very fruit driven and flavoursome---accessible relatively early. Never had this label,but not surprised at your enjoyment of its quality.
Limited production, so most are sold entirely in NZ.
You might have had the Felton Road wines, probably NZ's most well-regarded pinots. Their block wines, single-vineyard Block 3 and Block 5 wines in particular, are terrific, drink well young but have excellent aging potential, and have that wonderful inter...
Central Otago Pinots are a hidden gem of this world.
Did the wine trail there exactly a decade ago and was blown away by the local wine. Not exactly cheap, so it makes sense that it's not feasible to import it to Europe or US...hence the rest of the world is not very familiar with those... I remember Amisfi...
Very nice. I've tasted at Amisfield, but not eaten at the restaurant. Will have to do so next time.
The nicer Central Otago wines are not inexpensive, but compared to, say, French Burgundies, they are a genuine bargain (which is to say, it's all relative!).
