In the run up to Christmas, everyone’s attention seems to turn to sparkling wines, and that is certainly the case at Nautilus, where our two sparkling wines, the Nautilus Cuvee Marlborough Brut NV and the Nautilus Vintage Rose are some of New Zealand’s best loved bubbles. On Saturday 21st November, Nautilus was part of the Methode Marlborough “Evening of Vintages” – a 5 course dinner…
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Sparkling wine for Christmas
Tags: Air New Zealand, bubbles, cuvee, Methode Marlborough, nzwine, sparkling, Trophy, vintage rose, wine, Wine Awards
Nautilus Cuvee Brut NV during August
August is blending month for the base wine of our Nautilus Cuvee. First we assemble the 2015 vintage components, usually 2 Pinot Noir and 1 Chardonnay. These wines have been through malolactic fermentation and have been sitting on their yeast lees since April. Over this time they deposit a lot of tartrate crystals on the side of the tank as you can see by the…
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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
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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***Nerd alert*** The technical side of methode traditionnelle sparkling wine.
This week we are disgorging the latest batch of our much beloved Nautilus Cuvee. Disgorging is the last step in the process to prepare the wine for release and this particular batch was blended & bottled (“tiraged” is the technical term) in 2009. The wine is a blend based principally on the 2009 vintage with a small amount of older reserve wine to give additional complexity…
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