Negociant Roadshow Pinot Noir Masterclass – Reviews by Raymond Chan 17 June 2011
Our wine distributor Negociants New Zealand completed a highly successful roadshow around New Zealand with a Masterclass and trade tasting event in Wellington on 17th June. The roadshow exhibited the Negociants New Zealand range of wines to trade and media in Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. Principal wineries from Australia and New Zealand were represented along with a selection of fine wines from many European wineries.
Attached is a review of the Pinot Noir masterclass in Wellington from prominent wine reviewer Raymond Chan which featured Misha’s Vineyard Pinot Noir.
JET Magazine – Hong Kong – Febuary 2011
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Finding the best Pinot Noir
Six bottles of Romanee Conti were put to auction in new year, ending up with US$2,321,160. It costs around 3 million HK dollars in average per bottle. If you’re looking for the best Burgundy in its best vintages, you could try a bottle of new world’s Pinot Noir which costs you only 3 hundred something HK dollars instead.
Pinot Noir is not easy to be planted, which is well-known. It cannot survive too cold or too hot. It will be over matured under hot weather and make the wine to be juice-liked. It will become sour under cold weather and make it overwhelmed by herbaceous and grassy taste. It’s never easy to make a great Pinot Noir like Romanee-Conti. However, Misha & Andy have given up their high-pay jobs that everyone is dreaming of and started their winemaking business at Central Otago, setting up the Misha’s Vineyard and trying to make quality Pinot Noir there. Misha believes that “Pinot Noir is the new gold!”.
Singapore’s Appetite Magazine names Misha’s Vineyard “Dress Circle” Pinot Gris as Top Aromatic White
Singapore’s Appetite Magazine has named Misha’s Vineyard “Dress Circle” Pinot Gris as Top Aromatic White in their annual Appetite Wine Awards 2011. The two categories of wine in this year’s awards were Aromatic Whites and Big Bold Reds. From some 80 different wines in each category, the wines went through two rounds of blind tasting to find the top wines. Misha’s Vineyard was delighted to be one of the top wines with their highly regarded Pinot Gris with the award being accepted by Scott Hamilton from Rubicon Reserve (pictured), who was Misha’s Vineyard distributor partner in Singapore in 2010.
Rebecca Leung, Sing Tao (Chinese Daily), Hong Kong, December 2010
Misha’s Vineyard Media Tasting
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The high humidity and temperature in Hong Kong makes people sick when the heavy rain steadily pours down sometime. It’s good to cheer yourself up with a bottle of wine that is aromatic and with high acidity – for instance a white wine or rose which has been slightly chilled..
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South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 14th Nov 2010
Perfect Match with Simon Tan
New Zealand Pinot Noir superman Olly Masters has shaken up his new project
Michael Franco, Good Living, Straits Times 14th November 2010
Passion and Experience, The Perfect Blend
Michael Franco talks to the power couple behind New Zealand’s young superstar winery, Misha’s Vineyard
Jayson Bryant’s Wine Adventures – 27 October
Misha’s Vineyard ‘The Gallery’ Gewurztraminer 2008. Posted: October 27, 2010 at 1:02 pm
The new kids on the block in Bendigo, Central Otago, have been ripping it up throughout the world promoting their wine. Misha and Andy Wilkinson conceived the idea of owning a vineyard and then started the search back in 2001. In 2004 they had found the perfect spot in Bendigo.
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John Fordham, Sunday Telegraph (Australia) 24th October 2010
October 24, 2010
“Misha’s Vineyard to take on wine world”
WHEN IT specialists Misha and Andy Wilkinson moved to establish a super-premium vineyard in the rapidly emerging Central Otago region, they cleverly set their sights on one of New Zealand’s top-flight winemakers, Oliver (Olly) Masters.
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The Fine Wine Delivery Company Tasting Team – 27th September
The FWDC tasting team reviewed over 100 wines one spectacular tasting…and they did it all for you!
September 27, 2010.
Last week was hectic, but a very welcome intermission came on Wednesday when Chris Williams and I (Andrew) attended the Negociants NZ ‘Our Friends at Home’ Trade Tasting.
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Raymond Chan – Regional Wines & Spirits – 23rd September
23 Sept 2010
PINOT NOIR REGIONALITY – DOES IT EXIST?
It was a wonderful opportunity to explore the concept of regionality with the Pinot Noir variety in this country at a Pinot Noir Masterclass conducted by several principals and winemakers for the Negociants NZ Ltd wine distribution company as part of their ‘Friends at Home’ roadshow yesterday.
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