Monthly Archives: February 2011


Bodegas Monteabellón Verdejo 2009 (£12.50 Quaff Wine Merchants, Berry Bros & Rudd) White Bordeaux meets white Burgundy, with the musky pear skin and smoky tinned pear of the former and the creamy minerality of the latter, just let down by a slightly bitter finish. B Bodegas Naia K-Naia 2009 (£9 […]

Rueda – seven excellent whites


Hunter’s Miru Miru NV, Marlborough (£13.95 Jeroboams) Nice solid, toasty style, quite winey, shows pineapple and apple flavours with notes of chocolate limes and wafer biscuit, ripe but still refreshing and refined. S(-) Cloudy Bay Pelorus NV, Marlborough (£13.99 Harvey Nichols, Waitrose, Harrods, Fortnum & Mason, Philglas & Swiggot, Majestic […]

New Zealand Sparkling Wines – and very tasty they are ...