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A great champagne with tight structure and enormous weight, character, body and length. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir each make up 45% of the blend with 10% Pinot Meunier and a lack of obvious malolactic characters allowing the fresh acidity to shine in this wine, which gains its body from fruit weight and long lees ageing of four years. This is a dry style with 8 grams of residual sugar per litre; it has great balance of flavour and richness balanced by vibrant acidity. 

If you're looking for Italy in a glass, here it is - a complex Chianti Classico (90% Sangiovese and 10% Merlot) from  a hillside vineyard in Tuscany called Poggio Teo. This 10 hectare site is situated about 400 metres above sea level where its vines gain maximum sunshine and benefit from cool nights, both of which enhance this wine's deep velvet smooth mouthfeel and complex, dry savoury aromas. Fleshy black plum flavours and a soft textured mid palate are followed by a lingering flavoursome finish. 

A great wine for drinking now (must be decanted to show at its best) and to save for another five to six years. 

Wakame arrived in New Zealand coastal waters on the hills of ships and thrived on our pristine rocky coastline. We of course now know it as a delicious culinary ingredient with many positive health benefits. Imagination is stoked to be able to gather wild wakame for this gin from the coast of Wellington and Wairarapa.

The initial aroma is juniper forward, fresh and sweet. When tasted you get the refreshingness of the citrus before fading to reveal the juniper in the background. A noticeable sweetness appears giving way to a sweet salt finish. A classic dry gin with a contemporary twist, transporting you to New Zealand's fresh and invigorating coastal waters. 

Each label tells the story of the ingredients, the place or the people behind what's in the bottle.  

Southern Right is re-defining Pinotage with this intense classically styled, clay-grown wine, packed with complex berry fruit, beautiful tannins and subtle wood spice. Full ripeness and the longer hang-time afforded by cooler sites, combined with the complex, more classic fruit aromas and structure resulting from clay-rich soil, make this wine a highly individual expression of South Africa?s unique grape variety.

We at DVB have a serious affinity for traditional European Beers. As much as we make wild and fun brews that take the boundaries to the next level, we don't screw with these. We just strive to make a bit of the old world in New Zealand. If you made it to Beervana 2022, we launched a pilot batch and had some of the best feedback from new-to-craft and traditionalists alike!

Flavours: Medium-bodied, big on ABV. Smooth, bready and fruity. Strong and subtle with the holy powers of a Jolly Monk. Take a sip of this holy nectar to absolve your mainstream beer sins of the past.

12% ABV.

 La Trappe Blond is an agreeable, tingling ale with a slightly sweet, softly bitter and malty taste.

6.5% ABV.

La Taille aux Loups from Montlouis-sur-Loire is a stunning bubbly from the Loire Valley in central France, which is home to the great Chenin Blanc grape ? an outstanding ingredient in wines such as this lovely, lively bubbly.

It is made the same way as Champagne and costs a lot less but retains a similar style in terms of taste. This sparkling wine is made from Chenin Blanc grown in the appellation of Montlouis-sur-Loire in the Loire Valley, where chalky clay and sandy clay soils share space on top of a bedrock of limestone. Only organic fertilisers are used here and all grapes are hand harvested with bunches picked into small plastic bins then fermented to 11.5 to 12% ABV in old oak barrels using only indigenous yeasts. The first fermentation leaves residual sugar of about seven to eight grams per litre and this is adjusted to 16 to 18 grams of residual sugar per litre for the second fermentation. The wine is aged for 20 months on lees in bottle and finishes with 4 to 6 grams of residual sugar, which makes it dry in style as well as taste. 

4.8% - Silly Season Session IPA

‘Tis the season. Sleigh All Day - your silly season session IPA. All the Citra, Centennial, Strata and Mosaic you love in your West Coast IPA, with a slightly more sessionable strength, so you can enjoy even more festive fun. Intense grapefruit citrus, pineapple, hydro resin and a hint of Christmas tree pine. You’re sleighing it!

BALTIC PORTER // 8.0%
A robust smooth porter with subtle roasted malts and aromas of dark fruit, toffee and berries.

Great Central Otago Pinot Noir from the most experienced viticulturist-winemaker team, brothers James and Matt Dicey. This pair have produced this wine with a blend of grapes grown on the Inlet Vineyard (60%) and Black Rabbit Vineyard (40%).

The wine is fleshy and full bodied with bright fresh fruit flavour to the forefront of each succulent sip; indigenous yeast fermentation took place with 2% whole clusters, 98% destemmed and 23 days on skins followed by ageing of 12 months in barrel, 21% new oak. 

The wine contains 14.3% ABV and was bottled unfined but filtered. 

The new Dicey Wine brand is the brainchild of the well experienced Dicey brothers, Matt and James, whose parents were among the pioneers of viticulture and winemaking in Bannockburn, Central Otago, when they co-founded Mt Difficulty Wines. 

Just because you don't want a beer, it doesn't mean you don't want a beer. So, we brewed you a beer. Inspired by the big bold flavours of Bird Dog IPA, but without the bite. Little Bird is an alcohol-free* IPA, with a deliciously-puritanical, true expression of the hop flavour. It's so tasty, you wont even realise you're not drinking. Until the morning, of course 

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Lovely dry, full bodied, Loire Valley sparkling Chenin Blanc from Domaine des Aubuisieres; producers of impressive bubbly and still Chenin Blancs such as this outstanding sparkling wine.

Utterly delicious, fragrant and peppery, this blend of Xinomavro, Limniona and Mavroudi grapes shows amazing purity to the palate and a lovely touch of sharpness. ?Simply? enjoy!

The Knappstein Sparkling Shiraz offers ripe fruit, with soft plump tannins, and a dry finish. Concentration of fruit balances with savoury spice and earthy notes, while waiting for the refreshing hit from the bubbles as they tantalise the palate, leaving a cleansing sensation.