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Just Arrived - Isabel Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir Posted by Andrew Barrow, 12:37pm 29/06/2007.  Arriving to work this morning we were greeted by a very excited Mr Chapman. Two new wines had just been unloaded off a delivery truck, two new wines from New Zealand producer Isabel - a Pinot Noir and a Sauvignon Blanc.
To be honest he always gets excited when new stuff arrives!
The Isabel Estate Vineyard was established in 1982 to produce premium classical grape varieties in Marlborough. The wines constantly garner excellent reviews and are highly sort after. I think we were lucky to get an allocation!
The Sauvignon Blanc for example (available for £11.95) was recently reviewed in the Melbourne Age
"In the marketplace Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is expected to be fresh, tangy... and often quite sweet. Isabel's version of New Zealand's most famous wine is different, dry and complex with herby fruit, honeyed and minerally notes coupled to nutty complexity."
Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age Epicure, Melbourne, Tuesday 20 March 2007
While the Pinot Noir received a huge 94 points in the Independent Weekly
"Swoon. Schmooch. Sigh. This is what it's s'posed to be like in Pinot World. Luscious and viscous, spicy and totally seductive, there's no point in resisting; she slides all over your sensories like some wicked therapy oil, massaging every little worry away. I'd always thought Martinborough (North Island) was the sexiest NZ pinot site, but this beauty says the wide valley of Marlborough, in the South, can do it just as well"
Paul White, The Independent Weekly, Adelaide, March 24th - 30th 2007
Isabel Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2006 £11.95
Isabel Marlborough Pinot Noir 2004 £15.50
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