Michael Cooper
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Bumper weekend wine guide: 36 affordable tipples you can bank on (opens the original)
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These wines, ranging in price from $13 to $35, are all top buys. Photo / Getty Images It’s easy to find a wine of good quality – the shelves are overflowing with them. For wine lovers, the biggest challenge – and the greatest satisfaction – lies in identifying labels that offer good to outstanding quality at prices that deliver great value. Everyone loves a bargain, we are told. These wines, ranging in price from $13 to $35, are all top buys. Askerne Reserve Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay 2024 A classic
Weekend wine guide: The factors that determine whether a wine sells for $20 or $200 (opens the original)
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The cost of some of our most expensive wines is not always about the quality. Photo / Getty Images What explains the price gap between a wine on sale at $20 and another at $200? Production factors, such as land prices, deliberately cropping vines lightly and the purchase of expensive oak barrels are part of the story, but less obvious influences are also involved, including strictly limiting quantities to achieve a precise balance between supply and demand, profit aspirations and winemakers’ ego
Bumper weekend wine guide: The best NZ claret-style wines to try now (opens the original)
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“Claret-style” reds flow from the relative warmth of Hawke’s Bay and Auckland. Photo / Getty Images In his famous book, The Physiology of Taste, published in 1825, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”) penned an anecdote about a magistrate who had been asked: “Your honour, which do you prefer, a wine from Bordeaux or from Burgundy?” The judge replied: “Madame, that is a trial in which I so thoroughly enjoy weighing the evidence that I always put
Weekend wine guide: Four-star wines for three-star prices (opens the original)
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Not sure what to get in the wine aisle? These wines offer affordable luxury with impressive quality. Photo / Getty Images Raised on their Croatian parents’ vineyard in West Auckland, the entrepreneurial Jim (Jakov) Delegat and his sister, Rose (Rosemari), have built Delegat into one of this country’s largest wine companies, with three key brands – Oyster Bay, Delegat and (since 2013) Barossa Valley Estate. Their key strategy, says Jim, has been to “focus on making large volumes of high-quality w
Young winemaker follows in her mum’s esteemed footsteps at Radburnd Cellars (opens the original)
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Winemakers Kate and Penelope Radburnd at their vineyard in Hawke's Bay. Photo / Supplied Penelope Radburnd first envisaged herself as a winemaker when she was a kid, helping Mum. “When you’re 5 years old, stomping on the bin at the end of the grape destemmer,” while also helping with readings of grape sugar levels and fermentation temperatures, “it’s pretty easy to fall in love with the industry.” She told Tasting Australia that at a Friday afternoon blind tasting (labels hidden), when she was a
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