New Zealand Wine 2018

New Zealand Wines
Flavours of New Zealand Montreal
Trade & Consumer Event

May 8, 2018

This tasting trade session in Montreal offered to the visitors a chance to discover over 100 wines from the different regions across New Zealand. Since the distinctive wine-growing regions are spread around the country, each has its own unique soils and climatic conditions that determine the wine they produce.

New Zealand wineries that participated at the event included:

Akarua, Lion, Accolade Wine, Jules Taylor,  Mission Estate, Stoneleigh Vineyards, Yealands Family Wines, Toi Toi Wines, Astrolabe Wines, Sacred Hill Vineyards, Kim Crawford Wines, Craggy Range, Oyster Bay, Babich Wines, Whitehaven Wine Company, Giesen Group, Loveblock Vintners, Lawson Dry Hills, Schubert Wines.

The event took place in the Montreal's Old Port, at the Marché Bonsecours. The wine trade tasting was preceded by a Masterclass hosted by Nadia Fournier.

The event was well attended by the wine professionals who were eager to taste the new wines and discover the exotic flavours of the far away land.

A large table with food - a variety of cheese and cold cuts - offered a welcomed brake from the wine tasting and assured sobriety, since there was so much wine to taste and to enjoy!

To find out more about the New Zealand wines, visit the official New Zealand wine website.

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New Zealand Wine

New Zealand Wines

May 5, 2015

A professional wine tasting took place today at the Montreal's Marché Bonsecure. It was a special treat to discover the New Zealand wines, which are not well known in North America. In a sense, they appeal as being somewhat exotic. We all know the Australian wines, but New Zealand ones - that's a different story.  Why do they appear exotic, the posters at the tasting hall tell it all.

The following New Zealand wineries participated at the event: Blind River Estate, Cloudy Bay, Craggy Range, Elephant Hill, Hunter's Wines, Kim Crawford Wine, Monkey Bay & Nobilo Estate, Matua Wines, Mud House Wines, Oyster Bay New Zealand, Pernod Ricard Winemakers, Rockburn Wines, Saint Claire Family Estate, Schubert Wines, Sileni Estates, te Pa Family Vineyards, Toi Toi Wines, Villa Maria Estate, Waimea Estates, Whiteheaven Wine Company.

The participating new Zealand wineries presented themselves as being wholesome yet of the old world high standards of taste and quality. Although the way one perceives the wine taste is quite individualistic, I have to admit that wholesome always taste quite good to me, and even much better than good...

And of cause, there also was food at this New Zealand wine tasting event.

For those who would like to know more about the New Zealand wines, here is the official New Zealand wine website.

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