Sour grapes don’t make for great wine! James Agnew, who has a family-run vineyard in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley and is the former chair of the NSW Wine Strategy, stated ”New Zealand savs are the McDonald’s of wines”. “You can go all over the world but a Big Mac is still a Big Mac.” The
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Wine Review: Kate Radburnd ‘Bud Burst’ Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Kate Radburnd is better known for her winemaking and management at C J Pask wines, Hawke’s Bay. Nowadays Kate can be found, not only running C J Pask, but also putting wine under her own name. Some of you would say it’s a gutsy call to
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Wine Review: Wairau River Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Reserve. Jayson Bryant tastes this wine from one of Marlborough’s largest family owned wineries.

Wine Review: Fresh from the bottling line this is everything one expects from young Marlborough Sauvignon. The fruit is lively and almost punches you in the face. The glass throws passion fruit, guava, and some other hints of green fruit. Then the palate is assaulted with young buxom bright perky fruit, with racey acid that
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Jayson Bryant of The Wine Vault talks about Wairau Valley and Awatere Valley in Marlborough. www.thewinevault.co.nz @TheWineVault