Joelle Thomson

Wine writer and award winning wine author


What I am drinking, reading and savouring each week

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Join me for a virtual tasting this Friday with Whitehaven

Virtual wine tasting party… Friday 1 May at 5pm for 15 minutes of fun Join me for a virtual tasting this Friday at 5pm with one of Marlborough’s first wineries in this country’s modern winemaking industry; Whitehaven, which has a new winemaker called Peter Jackson (not that Peter Jackson) and fresh new 2020 wines fermenting, as I write....

April 28, 2020

Wines of the week in lockdown, Chardonnays high and low

Chardonnay is the world’s favourite white aand here are two wines which speak for themselves, a tasty humble little French Chardonnay from Macon in southern Burgundy and a big, creamy, complex, nuanced dry white from winemaker Rod McDonald in Hawke’s Bay. ...

April 24, 2020

Early reports of vintage 2020 in lockdown

Anxiety levels have been running high for many of us lately, but especially so for those who have been allowed to continue working alongside others at a safe distance during Covid-19, such as vintage workers for the wine industry....

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