Archive for February, 2010
Domain Viret NPA
Chris from the wine circle in Kumeu gave me a bottle of the Domaine Viret Solstice Red. The wine has no sulphites added which I know is of interest to many people. Also the grapes are grown using a method known as cosmoculture more information is available on their website. The wines price is $20.00 [...]
New Boom Outlets, Nth Shore and Remuera
In the last couple of days we have added two new outlets for Boom Sparkling Pinot Gris. One on the North Shore and another in Remuera. More details as soon as they have stock.
Salon 1990
I opened a bottle of Champagne Salon 1990 with my wife for Valentines day. The wine was excellent although I thought that it was evolving at a faster pace than what Salon is meant too. General wisdom is that Salon takes on an interesting coffee, macaroon, Madeira characters at around 35 – 40 years. However [...]
Boom Tasting Schedule
I have a number of tastings scheduled this month starting tomorrow in Grey Lynn at the Wine Vault and running right through to the 26th when we will be at the Snells Beach Liquorland. Thursday 4th of February – Wine Vault Grey Lynn 4.00PM – 6.30PM Been Friday 5th of February – Warkworth Super Liquor [...]
Boom Pinot Gris in Rodney Times
We’ve had a nice mention in the Rodney times for Boom and a bit of a profile of myself. Unfortunately the article is not on line but below is a photo I took of the page.
An Apology For Some Older Posts
I was going through some older posts just now and found some with the dreaded †where there should be a “. I must apologize for this and a few similar problems with the older material on this site. The problem stems from an update of WordPress I did a bit over a year ago [...]