Wine consumption on the Chinese mainland is tiny by world standards, at about half a glass per person per year. In Australia, where I live, average wine consumption is about 80 glasses a year.
Australia makes good pinot noir. But pinot noir from New Zealand's Central Otago region has been receiving much attention from the world's influential wine critics.
Rudi Bauer, winemaker for Quartz Reef in Central Otago, is the region's best-known winemaker. He was one of six people short-listed as international winemaker of the year, the equivalent of a wine-world Oscar.
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NZI Business May 7: Rudi Bauer, NZ winemaker of the year…
NZ winemarker of the year, Quartz Reef's Rudi Bauer, has recently returned from Germany where…
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Kiwi winemaker up for prestigious award
Posted 25th January, 2010
For the first time ever a Kiwi winemaker is in the running for what has been dubbed the Oscars of the wine world.
Cromwell, Central Otago is as far as you can get from the traditional world of wine in Europe, but one vineyard is impressing them.
Wine guru Oz Clarke checked out Quartz Reed Vineyard and was impressed with what he tasted.
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An Austrian in NZ
Posted 13th October, 2009
One of the great pleasures of working in the wine trade is meeting a host of people for whom their sense of adventure as well as a desire to make great wine has taken them far from their native places.
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Radio NZ review by John Hawkesby, 17th August
“Quartz Reef Non Vintage…..another Central Otago beauty from Rudi Bauer – Real Champagne you have when you are not having Champagne – sophisticated, suave, complex (a bit like myself)...”
Listen to the whole interview here