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Tyler Branson
If you are located in Melbourne and enjoy drinking wine, you’ll probably be looking for more interesting and unique tastes to enhance your drinking experience. While Melbourne itself may not be a major nest for wineries and vineyards, you can still expect great wine around the world to be delivered to your area. New Zealand is Australia's nearest wine region neighbour, and it is home to many fantastic small family run vineyards and wineries that distribute through exclusive merchants in Australia who specialise in small run wines. Many wines that are usually only available from the cellar door at the winery are now available online through selected wine distributors in Australia. Here are a few of the best boutique and premium NZ wines that are now available to the Australian market: Nelson Pinot Gris 2009 (Nelson, New Zealand) From the Vineyard of Blackenbrook, this bottle of Pinot Gris contains a wonderful blend of tannin and fruit taste. Although it doesn’t come from a very large winery, the production process of Pinot Gris 2009 goes through high quality control. Filtration and pumping are kept to gentle levels to retain its highly original flavour, while the whole bunches of grapes are uniformly pressed to ensure the highest quality of must. With a CV of Silver Medal Bragato Wine Awards and Silver Medal New Zealand International Wine Show in 2009, this is a gem for you lucky Melbourne people. Blackenbrook Gewürztraminer 2008 (Nelson, New Zealand) Another product from Blackenbrook, the Nelson Gewürztraminer 2008 features the same high quality production values as the Pinot Gris. Grafting of vines is all done on site and maximum effort has been put into getting the most fertile soil. As with all Blackenbrook wines, fruits are pressed whole and gravity fed into the main winery for maximum quality. This bottle of wine taste as good as the Nelson Pinot Gris 2009 so try it if you like the former. Terrace Edge Pinot Noir 2008 (Waipara Valley, New Zealand) A family owned vineyard for generations, Terrace Edge takes delight in creating high standards of quality wine. They only use fruits from their own vineyard, and even intentionally reduce cropping levels to ensure they harvest fruits with the highest flavour concentration. From handpicking to sorting harvests manually, you can tell that the Terrace Edge adopts a traditional manual approach to the production of their wines. Their wines have gotten great reviews from Sam Kim of Wine Orbit New Zealand, who is a Senior Wine Judge. Fortunately for most areas in Australia, including Melbourne, Terrace Edge has distributors shipping their Pinot Noir to the region. Apart from these wines, there are many other vineyards that supply their wine to the Australian market through boutique online wine stores. A little research on the internet will show that there are actually some very good online wine stores that deal with exclusive wines and will ship to your door, often including shipping at their cost if you buy a whole case. Some stores will even ship nationwide to anywhere in Australia, so you can be sure to obtain your chosen selection no matter where you live.
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