Cameron Douglas: Tiki Single Vineyard Pinot Gris 2024

Wine: Tiki Single Vineyard Pinot Gris 2024, North Canterbury, $23.00  

In recognition of Matariki and to highlight we have a growing number of Māori wine producers in NZ (Tiki, Tarras, Steve Bird, te PA, Tohu).  

A crisp, dry style Pinot Gris with aromas and flavours of green pear and apple, some citrus highlights and a touch of quince. Just dry on the palate with an immediate bite of acidity and phenolics for texture and mouthfeel. There’s a fine less quality adding complexity and breadth across the palate. Best drinking from late 2024 through 2027.  

 

The Food: A wine that is delicious with all sorts of hangi fare – especially kumara and pork belly. If you prefer seafood, then poached salmon with lemon is a great match. Vegetarians will like this wine with cashew nut dusted tofu burger with red beet and tasty cheese.  

 

The season: 2024 was an excellent year for most growers in NZ. 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Master Somlia Cameron Douglas, who's just returned from the
Decanta World Wine Awards. These are the big Kahunas. These
are the big world Wine Awards in New Zealand. Unsurprisingly,
I suppose in a sense did relatively well. But here
to put it into context for us, Cameron has the
details of twenty six golds for New Zealand wines. How
do we shape up?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Though? We shaped up remarkably well and it really is
a feather in our cap to say that a New
Zealand pen and wy topped the best in the world
in twenty twenty five. Craigie Range and you know, nipping
at its heels with another producer from down in Central
at Tagaway called MacArthur Ridge, and they do a wine

(00:54):
called Southern Tour and those two wines both got platinum
and then one got upgraded to beston Show for Craigi
Range Panel. Its just remarkable. And even our sparkling wines,
you know number one Family Estate and mid and Midoo,
they did so well. Very very proud of our wine
making companies in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, I mean I'm getting upgraded
to Best in Show for the Craggy Range in particular,
is an amazing achievements. Now you've got a wine pick
for us this weekend, So celebrating the Matadoki weekend, You've
chosen a ticky single vineyard Pinotgree. It's a twenty twenty
four vintage from North Canterbury for twenty three dollars. So
what do you like about this?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, it's a super food friendly example. It's a crisp,
dry style of Peno Gree and it has the green pear, apples, citrus,
a little bit of Quint's combination on the nose and
the palette. And what that does is it gives this
nice contrast to any fair that you might be preparing

(01:59):
for dinner. And I'm suggesting something like if you're in
the mood for something hungy like that, whether you prepare
that yourself in the backyard or you buy something it's
great with kermitter and pork belly. And if you're not
into that, then salmon, a little bit of lemon, and
even vegetarians can have something like a cashw nut toasted

(02:22):
tofu burger with beetroot and cheese. You know, it really
is a versatile, great variety.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And it sort of offsets that richness that's what you're suggesting, right,
because those are quite rich foods generally.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, the best food and wine pairings really come from
understanding contrasts that you're not trying to compete with food
intensity and richness and flavor that you're trying to contrast it.
And this is where that sicky pinogree comes in quite
nicely because it offers that core fruit contrast to richness
of food. And of course acidity and things like phanolics

(02:55):
and textures and mouth feel all have a role to play,
but it really is that fruit contrast that we're looking for.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, oh fantastic. Okay, So Cameron's pick for us this
week a tiki single Venu Agree you're twenty twenty four
vintage from North Canterbury. We'll have the details for that
on the News Talks EDB website. And glad that the
Decanted world Wide Awards were so successful, Cameron. I know
you play a big role there, but still good to
be home.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's always good to come home to New Zealand. Aaterra
just love it.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, oh very good. Hey, thank you so much.
We'll catch again very soon. Master Samlier Cameron Douglas with
his pick for this week. Now after eleven o'clock on
News Talks EDBUR, clinical psychologist Google Sutherland has got his
hands on this fascinating new study he wants to share
with us. It's a meta analysis, so you know, one
of those studies that goes and looks at all sorts
of different studies over the years and compares their results,

(03:44):
and it's into the impacts of screen time on children. Now,
in drawing these study results to our attention, Google's been
really deliberate and pointing out that he's kind of on
the fence. He's not one of these people who automatically
SA's our screen time is the worst thing ever. Oh
my gosh, the more time your kid's been on the computer,
they're going to have four eyes and all that kind
of thing. But he's going to run us through what

(04:05):
are some really really interesting and quite robust results of
the study when he joins us after eleven o'clock this morning.

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