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    Festive Fizz & Summer Sips

    Nov 10, 2019 3 minutes
    Michael Cooper is a North & South contributing writer.

    With the holidays fast approaching, it’s the season to be jolly, which means popping the cork on a bottle or two of bubbly. Summer is also the perfect season for fresh, gently chilled whites and rosés – and for barbecues, you’ll need red wine too. The wines highlighted here stood out in my recent tastings, for their irresistible value, striking quality, or both.

    Sparklings

    Cloudy Bay Pelorus Vintage 2010

    This classy Marlborough wine was disgorged after seven years’ maturation on its yeast lees. Highly fragrant and vivacious, with intense, citrusy, peachy, biscuity characters, crisp and complex, it’s a real mouthful of flavour. $50

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