WITH THANKS TO: Janet Blackman from the Professional Wine Studies Department and the AUT School of Hospitality and Tourism. For more on the programmes in hospitality, food and beverage, and hotel management, visit aut.ac.nz. Water kindly supplied by Antipodes.
We knew this winter would be a cold, muddy one the second those destructive floods hit Canterbury and the polar blasts roared in from the Antarctic shelf. But while climate disruption might be winning the war outside, we can take comfort in the fact that this year’s wines are safely tucked away in tanks and barrels – and the hearty, ribsticking red wines bottled in recent years are just hitting the market now, right when we need a bit of cosiness.
Rich, luscious, Bordeaux-style reds were
