09-Mar-2018
Red Queen Wines is the Marlborough collaboration between John Sowman, viticulturist for over 25 years, and Shixiang (Adora) Wu, a journalist from Anhui province in east China who has studied viticulture and winemaking at NMIT and worked vintages. Her aim is to make New Zealand wine for the Chinese market, and working with John, they have blended experience, culture and passion as it "takes all the running you can do just to keep place” as the Red Queen character advised Alice in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, referring to the continual need to improve oneself. Here, I review the 2017 Red Queen Pinot Noir Rosé which is part of the process. www.redqueenwines.co.nz
