Howdy. What a great year it’s been.With two “champion wine of show” trophies on display at the cellar door, there has been lots to celebrate and Christmas 2013 will be a perfect excuse to kick back and enjoy some pretty special wines. Of course it won’t just be Nautilus that we’re drinking – an important part of being a winemaker is to “benchmark” our wines…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
The Twelve Wines of Christmas
Tags: 12 wines, Bollinger, Christmas, Egon Muller, Framingham, Prunotto, Twelve wines, Xmas
One from the bucket list – Champion Wine of Show at the Air NZ Wine Awards.
On Saturday night at the Air New Zealand Wine Awards dinner I had the privilege of collecting both the trophy for best sparkling wine and the Champion Wine of Show for our Nautilus Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV. Collecting the Best sparking trophy was exciting enough but to get the Champion Wine of the show took it to a whole new level – that was definitely…
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Wellingtons in Auckland
Nautilus Estate Pinot Noir 2011 was served at a recent masterclass organised by Cuisine magazine. The title of the masterclass was “Stress-free entertaining with Gareth Stewart” and was attended by about 160 avid foodies. Nautilus Pinot Noir was delicious partnered with Gareth’s Venison Wellingtons and there were many favourable comments on this particular match. Both the dish and the wine had a subtle combination of…
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A Chardonnay Vertical Tasting
Last Friday we conducted a little tasting of our previous Chardonnay vintages. The occasion? Selecting three vintages for a Chardonnay masterclass organised by the Family of Twelve early in 2014. We will be in some pretty illustrious company with Chardonnay specialists Kumeu River rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ata Rangi, Neudorf, Pegasus Bay and Felton Road. Since the Cloudy Bay winemaking team happened to…
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Tags: Chardonnay, Family of twelve, vertical
Marlborough Wine Weekend
Trade and media guests saw Marlborough at its best a couple of weeks ago for the biannual Marlborough Wine Weekend. Nautilus featured strongly throughout the event with the Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV included in the Methode Marlborough seminar and the Nautilus Chardonnay 2012 featured in the Marlborough Chardonnay masterclass. Both of these sessions focused on styles that are perhaps the underrated stars of the region…
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Tags: Marlborough Wine Weekend
A Very Special Sauvignon Blanc…
The Nautilus Winemakers Selection Sauvignon Blanc, like the Four Barriques Pinot Noir, is a wine we have made occasionally when we think the vintage quality warrants it. Previously allocated to the UK market, this wine is for the first time being released here in NZ. The style of this Sauvignon Blanc has always been at the technical forefront of what we are trying to achieve…
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Tags: 2012, sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, winemaker's selection
Nautilus Estate Vintage Rosé launched
Nautilus Cuvée Marlborough Brut NV has long been regarded as one of NZ’s top sparkling wines. This NV is so good that we have resisted the temptation to produce a vintage wine as we just don’t see how we could make it any better. However recently we got thinking about something a little different and Wednesday 16th October saw the launch of our new vintage sparkling…
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Tags: Amanda Skoog, Ballet, Glengarry, Launch, Methode Marlborough, RNZB, Rose, Sparkling wine, Vintage
Artdego 2013
Artdego 2013 was a hot ticket in Auckland this year. After the success of last year’s event the challenge was on to make this year bigger and better – to achieve the same “wow” factor as last year, despite the attendees’ expectations being higher than ever. What a great achievement. Nautilus Estate was involved as guests arrived – they were offered a glass of the…
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MÉTHODE MARLBOROUGH LAUNCHED
As a long standing producer of quality sparkling wine in the form of Nautilus Estate Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV, we take our fizz very seriously. As such, Nautilus Estate is very proud to be one of the founding members of “Méthode Marlborough” – a society formed to communicate the quality and heritage of Marlborough traditional method sparkling wines. The society launched 1 September and comprises the following nine members:- Allan…
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Tags: Methode Marlborough, Producers, Quality, Society, sparkling, traditional method, traditionnelle
Ballet Banquet part 2
Here is the video from the Ballet Banquet. It is so beautiful I had to repost…
Tags: ballet banquet, gatherandhunt, video, youtube