Boise Coop Wine Shop

Wednesday Tasting: Oyster Bay

• December 15, 2009

Meghan Haggerty, the Northwest rep for New Zealand winery Oyster Bay will be in town to taste through a line-up of their wines.  Described by leading London wine writer, Giles Kime, as “pretty close to being the elusive stuff of dreams,” Oyster Bay takes its name from the local ‘Oyster Bay’ on the tip of New Zealand’s majestic South Island. Their reputation has been built from vines grown in Marlborough’s central Wairau Valley now recognized as one of the great growing wine regions of the world. With its cool, sunny, maritime climate and its shallow, stony soils etched across great alluvial plains by ancient glaciers, Marlborough is described in Oz Clarke’s Wine Atlas as “one of the greatest places on earth to grow vines, producing some of the world’s most remarkable wines.”  Meghan will be pouring four wines: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Merlot.

Join us this Wednesday, December 16 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm for a free taste of this New Zealand Quartet.