Bay Harbour: July 01, 2020

Wednesday July 1 2020
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BAY HARBOUR
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Wine
A wealth of fine pinot noirs
• By Mark Henderson
KIWIS ARE blessed with easy
access to a wealth of great pinot
noir, much of it from Otago.
It can be easy to overlook the
raft of pinot noirs that
are produced north of these parts.
Marlborough and North
Canterbury have double the
area of Central Otago devoted
to pinot noir grapes and,
while a swag of that goes into
bubbles production, the volume
remaining often means that
pricing is very fair, as seen in
today’s selection.
2019 Hunter’s Offshoot
Marlborough
Price: $24.99
Rating: Excellent
Attractive nose with red fruits,
raspberry dusty gravel, earthiness,
a liquorice-like hint, wild
herbs later. Juicy, bright fruit,
crunchiness and grainy tannins,
leading to a long, silky juniper
and wild herb-accented finish.
Lovely depth of ripe fruit and,
while youthful, there is already
good integration and balance.
Vibrant and very drinkable at a
smart price.
www.hunters.co.nz
Ferrymead
2018 Main Divide
Price: $24.99
Rating: Very good
The Light At The End Of The Day
by Eleanor Wasserberg
A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites
them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of
the younger daughter of Kraków’s grand Oderfeldt family,
it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to
accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess
or her haughty, condescending parents – and almost doesn’t
notice Alicia’s bookish older sister, Karolina. But when he is
ushered by a servant into their house on Kraków’s fashionable
Bernady ska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life
will become entangled with the Oderfeldts’. Or of the impact that the German
invasion will have upon them all.
As Poland is engulfed by war, and Jozef’s painting is caught up in the tides
of history, Alicia, Karolina and their parents are forced to flee – their Jewish
identity transformed into something dangerous, and their comfortable lives
overturned …
Spanning countries and decades The Light at the End of the Day is a
heart-breaking novel of exile, survival and how we remember what is lost.
The Silent Wife
by Karin Slaughter
From the No.1 bestselling author comes a gripping new crime thriller featuring
WILL TRENT and SARA LINTON.
He watches.
A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to
be afraid, but she’s wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County.
He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim.
He waits.
A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then
another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead, and the MO is
identical.
He takes.
Although the original trail has gone cold - memories have faded, witnesses
have disappeared - agent Will Trent and forensic pathologist Sara Linton must
re-open the cold case. But the clock is ticking, and the killer is determined to
find his perfect silent wife ...
WIN THIS BOOK
Graphite and charry oak lead
the nose; rich fruit here too yet a
little bound up. Lead pencil, rubber,
rich fruit meet up with powerful
tannins and racy acidity:
this feels like a lot of effort and
ingredient have gone into making
it, yet it still seems to need
time to fully integrate. Time sees
this soften and flesh out.
www.maindivide.com
2019 Jules Taylor
Marlborough
Price: $32.99
Rating: Excellent
ENTER TO
WIN
THIS BOOK
book
release
We have one copy of The Light At The End Of The Day to give away, courtesy of Take Note Ferrymead. To
be in the draw, email giveaways@starmedia.kiwi with The Light At The End Of The Day in the subject line or
write to Take Note Book Giveaway, The Light At The End Of The Day Star Media, PO Box 1467, Christchurch
8140. To be eligible for the draw, all entries must include your name, address and contact number. Entries
close Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The book winner for A Conspiracy of Bones is Ron Twine of Sumner.
Vibrant nose, richly fruited
with raspberry and wild herbs,
yet freshness and lift too. Red
and dark fruits frame the powerful
palate, spices, a little tamarillo
with time. Develops an appealing
sappiness and vibrancy,
which adds coolness to the long,
richly fruited close. Youthful, but
already nicely integrated with
superb drinkability, and potential
too.
www.julestaylor.com
2018 Opawa
Marlborough
Price: $28
Rating: Very good
Subtle but floral with red fruits
and tilled earth, spices with
time. There’s a little wildness
to the palate, raspberry joining
the mix along with cranberry, a
stalky nuance and chewy, grainy
tannins. A lightness and aerial
quality to this zestiness to the
palate with red fruits hanging on
the close.
www.opawawine.com
2019 Main Divide
Te Hau Reserve
North Canterbury
Price: $32.99
Rating: Very good to excellent
Raspberry, dark and liqueur
fruits, oak scents and a brownpaper
nuance. With its youthful
boldness, this a real impact pinot
noir driven by powerful raspberry,
loganberry and spice before
flowing to an intriguing yet
beguiling bittersweet note on the
finish. A powerful style that will
Proudly supported by Star Media
suit fans of bigger reds; drinking
really well.
www.maindivide.com
2017 Mills Reef
Reserve
Marlborough
Price: $24.95
Rating: Very good
Fragrance and florality,
rose petal, strawberry and
wild herb, a little funkiness
with aeration. A lighter-bodied
palate showing earth/humus,
mixed berryfruits and a tangy
quality. Aeration brings the first
hints of secondary characters
on that rich, earthy backdrop. A
svelte style in the slot to enjoy
now.
www.millsreef.co.nz