September 11, 2024 • 7 mins
Weekly wine chat with the guru - This week we cover the best priced Whites.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whether it's gum boots or rugby boots, the Country Sport
Breakfast has yet covered on gold Sport, your home of
Live Commentary.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Catching up with Michael Cooper to talk wines. Last week
we were talking about bottles of wine that were around
five hundred dollars. Today, Michael, we're looking at some of
the best spies almost like budget wines. But they don't
taste like that, do they.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, just think for some people of five hundred dollar
bottle of wine what I read about a million billionaire
American billionaires for then they'd probably think it's cheap. But
for all of that five hundred dollar bottle of wine, Wow,
for most of us, we would never taste wine were
You're right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I mean, I like my wine and I don't think
I've ever tasted a five hundred dollars bottle of wine.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Most most New Zealanders actually third don't really want to
spend more than about fifteen dollars on wine, you know,
to drink it home. So so the thing is there's
there's lots of good wine out there. So I think
the real challenge when you buy a bottle of wine,
but where you get the greatest satisfaction is when you
can pinpoint of wine that gives you great value for
(01:17):
money or you know, more bang for your back.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Absolutely, So how do you sort of find those wines?
So I'm lucky because I get to taste a wide
range of wines, and so I actually have some formula
formula that I've drawn up over the years so that
to assess the value for money. What I do is
I taste the wine for quality, and then you know,
I check its retail price, right, and for the price
(01:42):
quality ratio. It does vary between different great varieties and
different wine styles in terms of how much you expect.
But like chardon as tend to be for a good one,
it tends to cost more than say a good reasoning right,
and that's because of you know, things like oak barrels
and some on that go into making chardona that add extra.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Cough sure sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah yeah. So let's talk about a few wines that
do offer what I think are terrific value.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, we'll start with what let's do it in two bites.
We'll do white wines in a bubbly this week, and
next week we'll do reds and a rosea.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, that sounds great. Ones today and a bubbly. Right,
let's do a Sonyon blong, a pino gree and a
sharpney that covers most people's sort of favorite white ones.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Excellent and a bubbly.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So when I look through my files, the best value
soauvinyon blong that I've tasted in recent months is Mount
Riley Limited Release Mulborough son Blong twenty twenty three. Now
it's still on the market, so it's now what just
a bit over a year old. You can buy the swine.
(02:51):
I gave it four and a half stars out of five,
which means excellent, root outstanding, and you can buy it
for eighteen dollars. So it's an excellent malsa grown in
the Wireral Valley. Mostly, it's full bodied, it's got generous,
vibrant passion, fruit and lime flavors. It's got an undercurrent
of those more sort of herbal grassy oats, and it's
(03:13):
got a crisp, dry, lingering finish. So it's Maulbert in
the glass, high quality. Mount Riley Limited Release Malversauvignon Blanc
twenty twenty three eighteen dollars right now, Pedogres, you know,
huge army church Road. I've always thought delivers great value.
(03:34):
Almost always it's been from Hawks Bay, but of course
hawks Hawks Bay was hit by the cyclone in twenty
twenty three, so the Church Peno Gree from twenty three
is labeled New Zealand Peno Gree, which I suspect means
actually it's probably grown in the South Island, which had
a much better year in twenty twenty three. So this wine,
(03:55):
it's attractively scented, it's fresh, mouthfilling, it's got strong peachy
spicy flavors, hair and ginger notes, just off dry, fine
you balanced acidity. It's delicious in its youth and it's
once again eighteen dollars and that's Church Road, New Zealand
(04:15):
Penogree twenty twenty three. Now Chardenay, of course perennial favorite.
My pick here is Lawson's Dry Hills Mulbrashardeney twenty twenty two,
which listeners can buy for twenty bucks. And what you
get for your money is a seriously good shardney for
(04:38):
a damn good price. It's been crafted to showcase its
lively fruit flavors, so it's not what you would call
an oaky shardney, but they've given it complexity from using
a whole range of techniques that winemakers love to fiddle with.
It's mouth filling, it's got very good depth of ripe
fruit flavors. It's got gentle sort of mealy bis notes
(05:00):
that add complexity, and it's got a smooth, deliciously harmonious finish,
which means, you know, it's enjoyable. Now, So that's Lawson's
Dry Hills mul Rashardeney twenty twenty two. And now finally
a bubbly and let's go offshore for the front of it.
Campo Vjo Carver brought env which you can buy for
(05:25):
about twenty to twenty two dollars now. Carver is a
famous Spanish sparkling. It used to be known as poor
man champagne, okay because it you know, it sells for
about a third the price or third to a half
the price of champagne. But in a way that's disrespectful
(05:46):
to Carver because it comes from the completely different country,
a completely different region, and it's got its own distinctive style,
and Carver offers really good value. It's bottle femented, so
it's made by that, you know, classic champagne technique of
re flementing the wine in the bottle to generate the
bubbles and capture them. This is a vivacious, bubbly. It's
(06:09):
made from indigenous Spanish varieties that we've never heard of,
like the raloh and massabao and perrolata, which makes it
interesting as well. And it's scentered. It's got lemonie apply
gently yesty flavors, just a sliver of sweetness but perfectly
balanced by acidity. And it's got considerable complexity. So it's
(06:31):
got good personality and you can buy it for twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
See that's so that good.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Tempo Vjo Carver brought and because the brand has been
owned by Perno Ricar, it gets wide distribution around New Zealand,
so listeners can probably pick that up in a supermarket.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fantastic Michael Greg to chat next week. We'll touch on
the best of buys in Red's nice to catch up.
Thank you so much. Great, right, let me alone, let
me go home, let me go back to start over.
Whether it's gum boots or rugby boots, the Country Sport
Breakfast has yet covered on gold Sport, your home of
Live Commentary.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Catching up with Michael Cooper to talk wines. Last week
we were talking about bottles of wine that were around
five hundred dollars. Today, Michael, we're looking at some of
the best spies almost like budget wines. But they don't
taste like that, do they.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, just think for some people of five hundred dollar
bottle of wine what I read about a million billionaire
American billionaires for then they'd probably think it's cheap. But
for all of that five hundred dollar bottle of wine, Wow,
for most of us, we would never taste wine were
You're right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I mean, I like my wine and I don't think
I've ever tasted a five hundred dollars bottle of wine.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Most most New Zealanders actually third don't really want to
spend more than about fifteen dollars on wine, you know,
to drink it home. So so the thing is there's
there's lots of good wine out there. So I think
the real challenge when you buy a bottle of wine,
but where you get the greatest satisfaction is when you
can pinpoint of wine that gives you great value for
(01:17):
money or you know, more bang for your back.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Absolutely, So how do you sort of find those wines?
So I'm lucky because I get to taste a wide
range of wines, and so I actually have some formula
formula that I've drawn up over the years so that
to assess the value for money. What I do is
I taste the wine for quality, and then you know,
I check its retail price, right, and for the price
(01:42):
quality ratio. It does vary between different great varieties and
different wine styles in terms of how much you expect.
But like chardon as tend to be for a good one,
it tends to cost more than say a good reasoning right,
and that's because of you know, things like oak barrels
and some on that go into making chardona that add extra.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Cough sure sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah yeah. So let's talk about a few wines that
do offer what I think are terrific value.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, we'll start with what let's do it in two bites.
We'll do white wines in a bubbly this week, and
next week we'll do reds and a rosea.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, that sounds great. Ones today and a bubbly. Right,
let's do a Sonyon blong, a pino gree and a
sharpney that covers most people's sort of favorite white ones.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Excellent and a bubbly.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So when I look through my files, the best value
soauvinyon blong that I've tasted in recent months is Mount
Riley Limited Release Mulborough son Blong twenty twenty three. Now
it's still on the market, so it's now what just
a bit over a year old. You can buy the swine.
(02:51):
I gave it four and a half stars out of five,
which means excellent, root outstanding, and you can buy it
for eighteen dollars. So it's an excellent malsa grown in
the Wireral Valley. Mostly, it's full bodied, it's got generous,
vibrant passion, fruit and lime flavors. It's got an undercurrent
of those more sort of herbal grassy oats, and it's
(03:13):
got a crisp, dry, lingering finish. So it's Maulbert in
the glass, high quality. Mount Riley Limited Release Malversauvignon Blanc
twenty twenty three eighteen dollars right now, Pedogres, you know,
huge army church Road. I've always thought delivers great value.
(03:34):
Almost always it's been from Hawks Bay, but of course
hawks Hawks Bay was hit by the cyclone in twenty
twenty three, so the Church Peno Gree from twenty three
is labeled New Zealand Peno Gree, which I suspect means
actually it's probably grown in the South Island, which had
a much better year in twenty twenty three. So this wine,
(03:55):
it's attractively scented, it's fresh, mouthfilling, it's got strong peachy
spicy flavors, hair and ginger notes, just off dry, fine
you balanced acidity. It's delicious in its youth and it's
once again eighteen dollars and that's Church Road, New Zealand
(04:15):
Penogree twenty twenty three. Now Chardenay, of course perennial favorite.
My pick here is Lawson's Dry Hills Mulbrashardeney twenty twenty two,
which listeners can buy for twenty bucks. And what you
get for your money is a seriously good shardney for
(04:38):
a damn good price. It's been crafted to showcase its
lively fruit flavors, so it's not what you would call
an oaky shardney, but they've given it complexity from using
a whole range of techniques that winemakers love to fiddle with.
It's mouth filling, it's got very good depth of ripe
fruit flavors. It's got gentle sort of mealy bis notes
(05:00):
that add complexity, and it's got a smooth, deliciously harmonious finish,
which means, you know, it's enjoyable. Now, So that's Lawson's
Dry Hills mul Rashardeney twenty twenty two. And now finally
a bubbly and let's go offshore for the front of it.
Campo Vjo Carver brought env which you can buy for
(05:25):
about twenty to twenty two dollars now. Carver is a
famous Spanish sparkling. It used to be known as poor
man champagne, okay because it you know, it sells for
about a third the price or third to a half
the price of champagne. But in a way that's disrespectful
(05:46):
to Carver because it comes from the completely different country,
a completely different region, and it's got its own distinctive style,
and Carver offers really good value. It's bottle femented, so
it's made by that, you know, classic champagne technique of
re flementing the wine in the bottle to generate the
bubbles and capture them. This is a vivacious, bubbly. It's
(06:09):
made from indigenous Spanish varieties that we've never heard of,
like the raloh and massabao and perrolata, which makes it
interesting as well. And it's scentered. It's got lemonie apply
gently yesty flavors, just a sliver of sweetness but perfectly
balanced by acidity. And it's got considerable complexity. So it's
(06:31):
got good personality and you can buy it for twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
See that's so that good.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Tempo Vjo Carver brought and because the brand has been
owned by Perno Ricar, it gets wide distribution around New Zealand,
so listeners can probably pick that up in a supermarket.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fantastic Michael Greg to chat next week. We'll touch on
the best of buys in Red's nice to catch up.
Thank you so much. Great, right, let me alone, let
me go home, let me go back to start over.
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