Last Monday, an intimate group of friends and colleagues joined us at Cazador restaurant in Auckland to celebrate 30 vintages of Nautilus Estate wines. Nautilus is proud to be one of the few Marlborough-based wineries that has remained under the same founding family ownership for 30 vintages. To mark the occasion, we pulled some old vintage wines from our cellar, and worked with Dariush and…
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Nautilus Estate Celebrates 30 Vintages
Tags: 30 vintages, 30th vintage, anniversary, Cazador, celebration, Marlborough, new zealand, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, wine
Wellington food writer Laura Vincent suggests some more recipes to pair with Nautilus Estate wines at Hungryandfrozen.com
A wee while ago I featured a couple of recipes that Hungry and Frozen writer Laura Vincent had suggested to pair with Nautilus Estate Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV, and with Nautilus Vintage Rose 2011. Here are another couple of recipes she suggested which I can promise you are equally delicious! bread and butter chicken a recipe by myself recommended wine pairing: Nautilus Estate Vintage Rose 2011…
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Tags: Hungry and frozen, laura vincent, Marlborough, nautilus cuvee, new zealand, Recipes, vintage rose, wine
ABC to BBC
Last week we attended the annual Australia & New Zealand winemaker’s tour road show run by our distributors, Negociants New Zealand. This 4 city whirlwind trip involves a bunch of Ozzie & NZ winemakers showing of their wines & certainly a fun time is had by all. Each day started with a series of master classes and Nautilus Chardonnay featured in the master class ‘ABC…
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Tags: 2013, Chardonnay, winemaking
Vintage 2014 Report
A mild spring and warm & settled December resulted in a good fruit set and higher than average cropping levels. Considerable fruit thinning was carried out across all varieties to ensure the vines were balanced. Throughout spring and early summer the season was warmer than average and we were anticipating an early vintage. Post-Christmas temperatures were more normal but we still managed our earliest start…
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Hungry & Frozen’s Laura Vincent creates recipes to compliment Nautilus sparkling wines
Food and wine pairing is a tricky subject. While there are no “rights” or “wrongs” when it comes to flavour pairing, and it pretty much all comes down to subjective prefernce, if you’ve been in the wine game long enough it’s pretty certain you’ve had a few “wow” moments when it comes to food and wine pairing. For me, the first time this happened was…
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Tags: bubbles, cuvee, food matching, food pairing, hungry & frozen, Hungry and frozen, laura vincent, Recipes, sparkling, vintage rose
Marlborough is a top visitor attraction
Visiting Nautilus and the other cellar doors in Marlboroug is a great way to pass a day, so it is hardly surprising to see the latest results published by travel website TripAdvisor: Blenheim has been voted one of the top four visitor destinations in New Zealand by TripAdvisor. The travel website announced its top destinations for 2014 last week, with Blenheim jumping from 10th spot…
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Tags: blenheim, cellar door, Marlborough, tourism, trip advisor, wine tasting
New Year’s Traditions at Nautilus Estate
Now that everyone is back at the winery after their Christmas holidays it has been really interesting exchanging stories about what everyone got up to. Obviously there have been some New Year’s Resolutions… Clive Weston, our general manager, resolves never to be without a chilled bottle of Nautilus in the fridge ready for unexpected visitors. Paul Mcphee our viticultural technician resolves to lower his gold…
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Tags: Chile, lentils, New Year, Resolutions
Nautilus Estate featured on TVNZ’s The Wine Show
As you probably know, Nautilus Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV won the Air NZ Trophy for best wine in show just before Christmas last year. As a result of that win, managing director Clive Weston was interviewed by Michael Jemison for the Wine Show which aired on TVNZ in December. For those who didn’t catch it, here is the programme:
Tags: Clive Weston, Michael Jemison, The Wine Show, TV