Events

Join Daniel as we grab Single Casks, Collectibles and Curios off the top shelf at Regional Wines and put them to the test. 

Here's the lineup...

• Deanston ''Old Particular'' 1994/25yo 51.6% - (refill hogshead)
• James Eadie Fife Blend 15 Years Old 56.3% - (25yo Cameronbridge grain finished in Marsala casks and blended with 15yo whisky from an unnamed Fife farm distillery)
• Tomintoul Five Decades Single Malt 50% (a blend of casks from 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005)
• Pittyvaich 28YO Limited Release 2018 Single Malt 52.1% - (we opened the 25-year-old at a RW tasting and it was gorgeous)
• Bruichladdich Octomore 13.2 58.3% - (finally some peat! 137.3 PPM - Fernando dè Castilla Oloroso Sherry)
• Caperdonich 21 Year Old Peated 46% - (more peat! Glen Grant Number 2 as it was known - now sadly gone)
• Craigellachie 'Signatory' 2012 / 11 years old 68.2% - (perhaps some sulfur if we're lucky)

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Cancellations must be made no later than 48hrs in advance.

This tasting will be a seated tasting in the Regional Wines tasting room.

If sold out - please email John at online@regionalwines.co.nz to be placed on the waitlist.

In collaboration with  Maison Vauron.

Venue - The Loft at Harbourside - 4 Taranaki St, Wellington Central Wellington 6021 New Zealand

In 1971 Véronique Guibert de la Vaissière and her husband Aimé, a tanner and glove manufacturer in Millau, fell in love with an old abandoned farmhouse in the unspoilt rural setting of the Gassac Valley near the ancient abbey of Aniane. 

On the recommendation of their friend, Professor Henri Enjalbert (a geologist specialising in soils and grapes) they planted 17,000 non-cloned Cabernet Sauvignon vines sourced from top Bordeaux properties. 

With further assistance and winemaking advice from oenologist Emile Peynaud (a consultant to Châteaux Margaux, Haut-Brion, La Mission Haut-Brion and La Lagune) the domaine bottled the the 1978 vintage in 1980 and immediately sold half en primeur to friends, family and local restaurants.

By 1982 some were hailing the winery as Languedoc’s Château Lafite and Mas de Daumas Gassac has not looked back since.

We are very lucky to have owner and winemaker Samuel Guibert, one of Véronique and Aimé Guibert’s five sons who now manage the property, in person to present some of the stunning wines that the winery has become so famous for. These are wines of elegance and freshness that speak of their terroir.

Here is the lineup…

Moulin de Gassac Folie Petnat
Moulin de Gassac Guilhem Blanc 22
Mas de Daumas Gassac Languedoc Blanc 22 
Moulin de Gassac Guilhem Rose 22
Moulin de Gassac Guilhem Rouge 22
Moulin de Gassac Combe Calcaire Rouge 22
Mas de Daumas Gassac Languedoc Rouge 21

Served with cheese and charcuterie.

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At Regional Wines, Beers and Spirits - 15 Ellice Street, Wellington 6011.

Cancellations must be made no later than 48hrs in advance.

If sold out - please email John at online@regionalwines.co.nz to be placed on the waitlist.

Venue - Cable Room at Harbourside, 4 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011

The comedown after Dramfest is always tricky to navigate, but this year, Regional Wines has the perfect antidote. In collaboration with our good friends at Whisky Galore we are privileged to host not one, not two but three of the expert team from J&A Mitchell & Co as they present drams to showcase the different arms of this legendary whisky company.

Join David Allen, Jenna McIntosh and Fiona McFadyen as they respectively showcase whiskies from the Springbank Distillery, independent bottler Wm. Cadenhead and the Glengyle Distillery home to Kilkerran single malt. Scroll on to read a bit about each presenter.

Here’s the lineup….

• Springbank 'Local Barley' 2024 13 54.1
• Longrow 100 proof - a sample of the official bottling coming later in the year
• Kilkerran 8 year old Bourbon Cask CS - a sample of the official bottling coming later in the year 
• Kilkerran 16 year old 46%
• MacDuff Cadenhead 10 years old 46%         
• Ben Nevis Cadenhead 11 years old 46% 

About the presenters

David Allen - Director of Sales & Marketing Springbank Distillery

David returns for his sixth DramFest, all the way from Campbeltown to share the history behind the whiskies made at Glengyle Distillery. David has been working with these whiskies extensively over the last 9 years or so, now heading up as their Director of Sales and Marketing. We are delighted to have his depth of knowledge and experience at DramFest once again along with, no doubt, a few good yarns from Kintyre.

Jenna McIntosh - Export Sales Manager Wm. Cadenheads

Export Sales Manager for Cadenhead, has lived in Campbeltown all her life and started working for the company in 2009. She has held many different roles between then and now, until finding her way to the Cadenhead’s office. Previously serving as a Sales Executive responsible for the Cadenhead’s shops and then taking charge of it, she is now our Export Sales Manager.

Fiona McFadyen - Export Sales Manager Mitchell's Glengyle

Home to the Kilkerran Single Malt, the Glengyle distillery of Campbeltown was re-established in 2004 after its closure in the early 1920’s. Fiona joined the J&A Mitchell team 3 years ago and has since spent her time learning and developing her knowledge at the distillery whilst also traveling to their key markets around the globe as Export Sales Manager.

Cancellations must be made no later than 48hrs in advance.

If sold out - please email John at online@regionalwines.co.nz to be placed on the waitlist.

Guigal Ambassador Brett Crittenden returns to the Regional Wines tasting room following his 2023 visit - and this time he's leaving no stone unturned!

Brett will open a scintillating lineup of 12 wines from new vintages that span the very finest from the Guigal portfolio including Hermitage, Condrieu 'La Doriane', Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde, Cote-Rotie 'La Mouline' and Cote-Rotie 'La Turque'.

This is a tasting not to be missed.

• Guigal Cotes-du-Rhone Blanc 2023
• Guigal Condrieu 2022 
• Guigal Condrieu 'La Doriane' 2022
• Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rosé 2022
• Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2020
• Guigal Crozes Hermitage Rouge 2020
• Guigal Gigondas 2020
• Guigal St Joseph Rouge 2020 
• Guigal Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde 2021
• Guigal Hermitage Rouge 2020 
• Guigal Cote-Rotie 'La Mouline' 2020
• Guigal Cote-Rotie 'La Turque' 2020

Cancellations must be made no later than 48hrs in advance.

If sold out - please email John at online@regionalwines.co.nz to be placed on the waitlist.

Fifty Years On: 1975 Champagne, Bordeaux, New World

reds, and Sauternes:

The idea for the tasting is to try and present something with a bit of a buzz / a bit different … for an anniversary. Naturally enough, I don’t have any wines from my birth year, but MB reassures me that even the best 1940s were tending modest some 45 years ago.

So the theme of the Tasting is: 50 years on. 1975 was one of those quite rich but tannic years in Bordeaux … in the: ‘will they ever come round’ category. Very different tannins from the supple wines of today. The centre-point of the tasting (cork-willing) Is 1975 La Mission Haut-Brion … from magnum. RP (ss) considered it the wine of the vintage, 100. It will have the usual hand-maidens, Montrose (naturally), Barton etc.

But to make the tasting a bit different, there will be two Napa Valley cabernet sauvignons, neither 1975 exactly, neither prestige labels. So their role is to illuminate / counterpoint maybe,

Similarly there will be two Australian cabernets, both 1975s, one South Australian, one Victorian.

To further make the tasting a bit intriguing, and because so few have tasted 50-year-old examples, there will be a 1975 champagne (still commanding a very high price on Wine-Searcher) to start, and a 1975 Sauternes to conclude.

The wine list will be along the following lines … but at this age I may have to further substitute. Today’s Wine-Searcher value is included, both to tantalise, and act as a proxy for up-to-date reviews:

1975 Champagne Taittinger Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne

1975 Ch Leoville Barton

1975 Ch Leoville Las-Cases 

1975 Ch Malescot-St-Exupery 

1975 Ch La Mission Haut-Brion (magnum)

1975 Ch Montrose 

1975 Ch Prieure-Lichine

1977 Heitz Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon NB Not Martha’s Vineyard

1974 Charles Krug Cabernet Sauvignon (no W-S for commercial label)

1975 Stanley-Leasingham Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 49 (no W-S though a top wine)

1975 Ch Tahbilk Cabernet (no W-S)

1975 Ch Coutet 

Reserve wines (plus others, if needed)

1975 Ch Haut-Batailley

1974 Sonoma Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (no W-S)

1974 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon

At Regional Wines, Beers and Spirits - 15 Ellice Street, Wellington 6011.

Cancellations must be made no later than 48hrs in advance.

If sold out - please email John at online@regionalwines.co.nz to be placed on the waitlist.