Cameron Douglas: Neudorf Tiritiri Pinot Gris

Wine: Neudorf Tiritiri Pinot Gris RRP – $27.00 

From the Moutere Hills in Nelson. 

The Wine: 
A semi-aromatic variety, this PG delivers scents of Asian pears and red apple. There’s a natural white spice, almost pepper-like and a distinctive mineral quality. Satin smooth texture on the palate, juicy fleshy, ripe and delicious. Medium(ish) weighted and lengthy on the finish.  

The Food:
Whilst great on its own, this wine pairs well with starter courses like sashimi or Waldorf salad, and some lighter main courses like Flounder with fresh lemon or fettuccine with tomato, basil and prawns.  

The season:
2024 was an excellent year for most growers in NZ, and especially Nelson. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks That Be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Now Master Somalier Cameron Douglas is here this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You were the Decanta World Wine Awards of all places.
So what are the Decanta World Wine Awards.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
The Decanton World Wine Awards is the largest wine competition
in the world. It's been going for thirty years. And
my job is the regional chair for the New Zealand
Wine Selections. So I chare a panel and we get
to takete about three hundred and eighty wines from New

(00:44):
Zealand over five days and find the best. So it's
a wonderful competition and a huge privilege to be able
to represent New Zealand at this awards.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's not a bad gig for you, Cameron, Let's see, honest.
I mean there'll be a few more than a few
people burning with envy this morning, I.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Think, yeah yeah. And I also get to be in London,
which is great.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, ah, very good. Will you pick for
us this weekend is Anudorf Teddy Teddy Peanut gree for
about twenty seven dollars, So tell us about this wine.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, Nudoff is a brand that has certainly gonered respect
over the last forty years in New Zealand, and that
comes from a place in Melts in the Motory Hills
where there is a huge amount of sunshine. They've got
great drainage in the soil. And because Pinotgrea is a
semi aromatic, great variety, it gives us this sort of

(01:36):
wonderful draw when you first smell the wine and intrigue
and it makes you go, hmmm, I wonder what the
swine's all about. And so you smell it a bit
more and you taste it and you go, now I'm
getting it. It's got all of this sort of Asian
pear red apple even brown and bosque pear flavors, and

(01:58):
for some people they get a little bit of quints
paste as it tastes in there as well. And one
of the distinctive things about Nelson wines, or two distinctive
things is great natural acidity and the white spice component
that comes through in pinogree that's made really well as
a reflection of sight and vine age. So this is

(02:19):
a really delicious wine for people to get their lips around.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Superb. So what would you eat with this, do you think.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I've had you know, one of food pairing is
a hobby of mine, and what I've found seems to
work best with wines like pinotgree Is. He just drink
it on its own. But if you are going to
have food with it, then think then foods like this
richer white flesh sashimi. So if you have snapper sashimi

(02:49):
and pinogree it works really really well. If you're not
into raw seafood, then something like a Waldorf salad that's
got a slightly creamy dressing to it and fresh walnuts
and pinotgreet actually work rather well together, or something like flounder.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, oh yep, yeah, okay. In terms of about the vintage,
because twenty twenty four was a pretty stellar season for
you know, for vineyards right across the country.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, yeah, it was throughout New Zealand. It was a
gift from nature to say sorry about twenty three. Twenty
four is or was a vintage that really delivered an
even growing season. Flowering was great, although in some parts
of the country it wasn't so great, but flowering overall

(03:33):
was very good and that gave us an abundance of fruit,
ripe fruit at volume that we could make some spectacular
wines from really good vintage. Do you know.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I remember I was when I was living in New
York and I used to pop along to the Musket Room,
which is that incredible New Zealand restaurant Michelin Star restaurant
with Matt Lambert behind the cock, you know, leaving the
kitchen and you know, I think you were you were
involved in and I remember seeing Neudorf wines listed at
the Musket Room.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, it was a great place to be able to
list wine like that in New York. And yes, you're right,
we've got a Michelin Star four months after being open.
And Barbara and Matt has moved on from that point
in time and they now run the Lodge Bar group
under the Rod and Gun umbrella here in New Zealand.

(04:25):
So yeah, great food comes home.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Ah so good. A Hey, thank you so much, Cameron.
That does sound fantastic. So Cameron's wine for us this
week is a Neudorf Titdy Titty Peno Gree twenty twenty
four from Nelson. You have a wonderful time at your
Decanter World Wine Awards and we will catch in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
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