Tag: kumeu river

  1. Wine and Dine: Chicken Liver Parfait

    It’s almost Christmas and time to get prepared for your festive feast! This is an impressive starter that the whole family will enjoy. It can be prepared up the week before and kept refrigerated.   Ingredients 450g room temperature fresh chicken livers, trimmed of all sinew and any bile sacs 75 g banana shallots, finely sliced 2 ...
    Wine and Dine: Chicken Liver Parfait
  2. We need to talk about Kumeu River…

    History After arriving in New Zealand in 1938 from Croatia Maté Brajkovich purchased a small vineyard with his parents in 1944, near the settlement of Kumeu, to the north west of Auckland. Maté’s son Michael took over the winemaking at Kumeu River Wines in 1982 and the potential began to be realised. The winery has now ...
    We need to talk about Kumeu River…
  3. Kumeu River: The New World Answer to Puligny-Montrachet

    There is no denying that Kumeu River is one of the world's best Chardonnay producers and we view them as the New World answer to Puligny-Montrachet. In fact, most wine critics find it impossible to tell difference when tasting blind. Neal Martin of Vinous stated that Kumeu River is "amongst the very best Chardonnay producers in the world... Their ...
    Kumeu River: The New World Answer to Puligny-Montrachet
  4. Discover Auckland's Pearl, Kumeu River

    Kumeu River Wines is one of New Zealand’s leading wineries, famed for producing rich and complex Chardonnays rivaling some of Burgundy best producers. Built from humble beginnings by Mick Brajkovitch, who, like many Dalmatians emigrated from Croatia to New Zealand in the early 1900’s to find work digging Kauri gum, a fossilised resin which was ...
    Discover Auckland's Pearl, Kumeu River

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