News & Reviews

In every newsletter, we’ll be bringing you a slice of Ohui - where you’ll get to meet the vineyard, the people and the wine. We may also throw in a special or two, just to tantilise those tastebuds further! This month we've got a special on our Syrah/Malbec and our 2009 Sauvignon Blanc...

by Rhys Mathias - "I’ve been drinking" column

It’s a grape variety that has slipped almost surreptitiously into New Zealand wine glasses over the last few years, turning us off traditional varieties and alerting us to the fact we have the perfect climate for a grape that finds its purest form in both the old and new worlds.

by Hugh Wood, Hamilton Press

A few weeks ago I reported on Ohui Vineyard, the small, new vineyard in the Coromandel at Opoutere Beach. One comment I made on the two wines tasted seems to have been misconstrued, so perhaps some explanation is called for.

By Hugh Wood, Hmailton Press

The Kimpton family have dairy farming interests close to Hamilton and, for some time have had "run off" land around Opoutere beach on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Wine of the Week, edited by Sue Courtney

John arrived with vinous tipples to a reunion of old family friends over the weekend. We had lived across the road from each other as children but John now lived in Hamilton, not far from where his parents had moved to, while his sister, Cathy, lived in Sydney. Cathy had come back to NZ for a few days to see her family and John came with her from Hamilton to Auckland for a night of convivial reminiscing before Cathy’s flight home.