Misha's Vineyard 'The Soloist' Rosé 2022, Central Otago

I love the colour of this wine, translucent with a peach and pacific rose apple hue, star bright and new….

2022, Rose, RoséCameron DouglasOctober 26, 2022Misha's Vineyard, Central Otago, rose, 2022

Misha's Vineyard 'The Cadenza' Late Havest Gewurztraminer 2022, Central Otago

Very pretty bouquet, pungent and precise with a bouquet of white fleshed fruits and ginger, preserved lemon and apple, and white rose with a wild thyme and schist mineral quality….

Elephant Hill Stone Merlot 2019, Hawkes Bay

There’s always a fine seductive quality about Merlot and this wine exemplifies that idea with a plush almost exotic plum and purple flowers bouquet followed by complexity from lees and barrel spice, toasty oak and a smoky earth quality….

2019, MerlotCameron DouglasOctober 26, 2022Elephant Hill, merlot, 2019, Hawkes Bay

Elephant Hill STONE Syrah 2019, Hawke's Bay

It’s hard not to think Northern Rhone when nosing this wine for the first time, but it is all Hawkes Bay with a baked gravel stone minerality, a core of dark red fruits, black currant and violets, baked plum and aged meats….

2019, SyrahCameron DouglasOctober 26, 2022Elephant Hill, Stone, syrah, Hawkes Bay, Hawke's Bay

Elephant Hill Salomé Chardonnay 2020, Hawke's Bay

I love the way the bouquet grabs my attention with aromas of ripe yellow fleshed stone fruits, cashew nut, citrus peel and baking spcies of oak, then a mineral quality….

2020, ChardonnayCameron DouglasOctober 26, 2022Elephant Hill, Salomé, Chardonnay, Hawkes Bay, Hawke's Bay

Rosell Boher Grande Cuvée Millésimée Méthode Traditionnelle 2015, Mendoza, Argentina

Aromas and flavours orange and apricot, pink rose apple skin and a fine lees lift. Simple, fresh, crunchy, fruity and dry on the palate.

Tapiz Alta Collection Malbec 2018, Mendoza, Argentina

A bouquet of toasty smoky red berry fruits and milk chocolate, clove and vanilla, baked caly and black currant….

2018, MalbecCameron DouglasOctober 23, 2022Tapiz, Alta Collection, Malbec, Mendoza, Argentina

Dog Point Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020, Marlborough

Really impactful and interesting bouquet with aromas of soil and flowers then red berry fruits, a mix of new barrel and older, a sense of place and time…

2020, Organic, Pinot NoirCameron DouglasOctober 23, 2022Dog Point Vineyard, Pinot Noir, Marlborough, Organic

Villa Maria Ihumatau Chardonnay 2021, Auckland

Aromas of ripe pink grapefruit and white peach, lemon and sweet barrel scents…

2021, ChardonnayCameron DouglasOctober 23, 2022Villa Maria, Chardonnay, 2021, Auckland, New Zealand

LV by Louis Vavasour Methode Traditionnelle NV, Marlborough

Aromas of white peach, white strawberry , a fine lees autolysis with a toasted bricohe and light oatmeal quality…

Jiminez-Landi El Corralon Sierra de Gredos 2021, Spain

Dark cherry and red fruits compote, but there’s also plums and dark cherries in the mix then vanilla and clove wood spice layers.

2021, Red Wine, Grenache, Red blendCameron DouglasOctober 22, 2022Jiminez-Landi, El Corralon, Sierra de Gredos, Spain, Red wine

Pelassa Barolo DOCG 2016, Italy

The bouquet of this win…ract you or compell you on the first sniff.

2016, Barolo, NebbioloCameron DouglasOctober 22, 2022Pelassa, Barolo, Italy, DOCG, Nebbiolo

Château Grand Corbin-Despagne Grand Cru Classe 2018, Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France

Complex aromas of dark berries and earth and stone then oak. Clove and dark spices, blackberries and roasted plums, some blue fruit then a touch of cassis and violet….

2018, BordeauxCameron DouglasOctober 22, 2022Saint-Émilion, Chateau Grand Corbin-Despagne, Grand Cru, Bordeaux, Franc

Elephant Hill SEA Chardonnay 2020, Hawke's Bay

There’s a rush of aromas from vanilla and oak baking spices, smoke and stony soils then fresh juicy stone fruits from peaches to apricot then apple and grapefruit peel….

2020, ChardonnayCameron DouglasOctober 22, 2022Elephant Hill, Sea, Chardonnay, Hawkes Bay, Hawke's Bay