Wineletter #232 August 2017

Italy

We’re off to the Land of Wine & Honey. Our love affair with the home of sculptors, gladiators, sinking cities and pizza goes back to the dawn of time, when the first Glengarry store was just a cave in a hill, and we’ve been importing beautifully realised Italian gems to titillate the New Zealand tastebud ever since.
We source our imports from the length and breadth of Italy, ticking off the top wine-producing regions, benchmark producers and whatever new up-and-coming gems we can uncover. From everyday tasty tipples to serious top-end titans.
What else? We zero in on Gisborne’s Matawhero winery, check in on the barrel-loving brewers at 8 Wired, dip our tongues carefully into the grappa glass, check out the superb range of champagnes on offer from the brilliant Drappier family, take a peek at the stunning new Library Series wines released by Villa Maria, sniff the heady aromas of the Glenmorangie single malt selection and parade our latest round of Top10 wines. And the rest. Cin cin!