These remain tumultuous times, but with producers rising to the challenge, the focus for wine lovers should be on the brace of stellar ‘pandemic vintages’ now in bottle and barrel.
AY you live in interesting times… the (likely apocryphal) Chinese saying seems all too appropriate these days, having learnt the hard way how much more relaxing it was to live in uninteresting times. That said, even covid clouds can come with silver linings and in the case of New Zealand’s wine industry, both harvests under pandemic conditions have been standouts in the very best way: brilliant wine quality. While the 2020 delivered
