Another Review
Somehow I have managed to missed the June review of Boom by Jules AKA the Wine Wanker who is embarrassingly for me on my blog roll. Poor form really. Amongst other things he says much more savoury and akin to a sparkling Vouvray Check out the full review at the wine wankers blog.
Need a Name?
It’s a tough job coming up with a new name for a winery, vineyard or wine brand. You could call it just about anything but generally people seem to go with something that either links it to themselves or the geography of the region they are in. Over the last twenty years there has also [...]
Boom Featured on National Radio
We received a small feature on National Radio today from John Hawkesby, during the Nine to Noon show. Theres a link here to the MP3 audio the mention comes at 7.50.
Sparkling Red
Doing a little work on the red version of Boom today. Things are going well for a change. This project has been rather complicated from the beginning but at least I know what varieties to work with now.
New Batch Bottled
The second Batch of Boom Sparkling Pinot Gris has been bottled today. It’s still 2008 Marlborough fruit and the wine is almost exactly the same but there are a couple of differentiating features. Firstly The six bottle boxes, although at present the the wine is sitting in large bins while the wine warms up to [...]
Bottling
Having sold almost all of the first batch of Boom we are bottling a second batch tomorrow. This necessitated a visit to to the winery in West Auckland today, mainly to apologize in the form of coffee and cake for a mix up I had inadvertently caused on Friday. Still no damage done only a [...]
New Outlet’s, SO2 and Tastings
Having just returned from a tasting at the Kingsland liquor centre I thought I should update everyone on the new outlets. All of these fantastic wine outlets will be stocking Boom. I will be doing some tastings in the north as well soon. Super Liquor Onerahi (in Whangarei) Super Liquor Whangarei Cactus Liquor Kensington, Whanarei [...]