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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks That Be.

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Speaker 2: Now Master Somalier Cameron Douglas is here this morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: You were the Decanta World Wine Awards of all places.

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Speaker 2: So what are the Decanta World Wine Awards.

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Speaker 3: The Decanton World Wine Awards is the largest wine competition

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Speaker 3: in the world. It's been going for thirty years. And

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Speaker 3: my job is the regional chair for the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Wine Selections. So I chare a panel and we get

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Speaker 3: to takete about three hundred and eighty wines from New

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Speaker 3: Zealand over five days and find the best. So it's

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Speaker 3: a wonderful competition and a huge privilege to be able

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Speaker 3: to represent New Zealand at this awards.

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Speaker 2: It's not a bad gig for you, Cameron, Let's see, honest.

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Speaker 2: I mean there'll be a few more than a few

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Speaker 2: people burning with envy this morning, I.

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Speaker 3: Think, yeah yeah. And I also get to be in London,

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Speaker 3: which is great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, ah, very good. Will you pick for

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Speaker 2: us this weekend is Anudorf Teddy Teddy Peanut gree for

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Speaker 2: about twenty seven dollars, So tell us about this wine.

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Speaker 3: Well, Nudoff is a brand that has certainly gonered respect

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Speaker 3: over the last forty years in New Zealand, and that

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Speaker 3: comes from a place in Melts in the Motory Hills

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Speaker 3: where there is a huge amount of sunshine. They've got

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Speaker 3: great drainage in the soil. And because Pinotgrea is a

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Speaker 3: semi aromatic, great variety, it gives us this sort of

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Speaker 3: wonderful draw when you first smell the wine and intrigue

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Speaker 3: and it makes you go, hmmm, I wonder what the

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Speaker 3: swine's all about. And so you smell it a bit

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Speaker 3: more and you taste it and you go, now I'm

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Speaker 3: getting it. It's got all of this sort of Asian

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Speaker 3: pear red apple even brown and bosque pear flavors, and

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Speaker 3: for some people they get a little bit of quints

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Speaker 3: paste as it tastes in there as well. And one

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Speaker 3: of the distinctive things about Nelson wines, or two distinctive

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Speaker 3: things is great natural acidity and the white spice component

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Speaker 3: that comes through in pinogree that's made really well as

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Speaker 3: a reflection of sight and vine age. So this is

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Speaker 3: a really delicious wine for people to get their lips around.

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Speaker 2: Superb. So what would you eat with this, do you think.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've had you know, one of food pairing is

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Speaker 3: a hobby of mine, and what I've found seems to

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Speaker 3: work best with wines like pinotgree Is. He just drink

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Speaker 3: it on its own. But if you are going to

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Speaker 3: have food with it, then think then foods like this

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Speaker 3: richer white flesh sashimi. So if you have snapper sashimi

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Speaker 3: and pinogree it works really really well. If you're not

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Speaker 3: into raw seafood, then something like a Waldorf salad that's

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Speaker 3: got a slightly creamy dressing to it and fresh walnuts

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Speaker 3: and pinotgreet actually work rather well together, or something like flounder.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yep, yeah, okay. In terms of about the vintage,

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Speaker 2: because twenty twenty four was a pretty stellar season for

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Speaker 2: you know, for vineyards right across the country.

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it was throughout New Zealand. It was a

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Speaker 3: gift from nature to say sorry about twenty three. Twenty

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Speaker 3: four is or was a vintage that really delivered an

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Speaker 3: even growing season. Flowering was great, although in some parts

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Speaker 3: of the country it wasn't so great, but flowering overall

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Speaker 3: was very good and that gave us an abundance of fruit,

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Speaker 3: ripe fruit at volume that we could make some spectacular

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Speaker 3: wines from really good vintage. Do you know.

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Speaker 2: I remember I was when I was living in New

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Speaker 2: York and I used to pop along to the Musket Room,

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Speaker 2: which is that incredible New Zealand restaurant Michelin Star restaurant

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Speaker 2: with Matt Lambert behind the cock, you know, leaving the

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Speaker 2: kitchen and you know, I think you were you were

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Speaker 2: involved in and I remember seeing Neudorf wines listed at

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Speaker 2: the Musket Room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great place to be able to

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Speaker 3: list wine like that in New York. And yes, you're right,

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Speaker 3: we've got a Michelin Star four months after being open.

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Speaker 3: And Barbara and Matt has moved on from that point

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Speaker 3: in time and they now run the Lodge Bar group

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Speaker 3: under the Rod and Gun umbrella here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, great food comes home.

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Speaker 2: Ah so good. A Hey, thank you so much, Cameron.

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Speaker 2: That does sound fantastic. So Cameron's wine for us this

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Speaker 2: week is a Neudorf Titdy Titty Peno Gree twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four from Nelson. You have a wonderful time at your

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Speaker 2: Decanter World Wine Awards and we will catch in a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.

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