Family owned, historically inspired and a consistently high quality wine producer. Meet Nautilus, our new winery of the month for October and, yes, we are about to enter the last quarter of 2023. We have chosen Nautilus as our winery of the month for October because of the popularity of the wines as well as the variety and great quality. The name Nautilus refers to the mathematically perfect spiral of the Nautilus shell, which has been admired since ancient Greek times. "This shape is found throughout nature: in the growth of seeds on a sunflower head, in the air movement of a...

Organic Wine Week officially begins on Monday 18 September and runs through to Friday 24 September 2023. Here at Regional Wines & Spirits we are celebrating Organic Wine Week with the brand new 2022 Giesen Organic Sauvignon Blanc, which is our wine of the week and fresh off the bottling line from one of this country's best top wineries, Giesen in Marlborough. It is also the tip of a far longer iceberg of organically certified wines that we stock in store at Regional and we would love to show you more of the great organic wines we have. Pop down to Regional this week...

Sunny days and chilly nights lead our team of wine lovers here at Regional straight to the Portuguese wine shelf, which is home to soft reds from an old winemaking country with a new lease of life. Portugal is best known for port but the same delicious combination of grape varieties is being pressed into service to make stunning fleshy reds, such as this one, Porta 6.   It's made from one grape we do know and two that few of us are familiar with. The blend of red grapes in this wine is Tinta Roriz, which is the Portuguese name for the...

Josh Landan is a man who has been round the beer block a few times.You may remember him as the chap who founded Saint Archer in 2013, in the heady gold rush days of San Diego craft brewing. The enterprise was so successful that it was sold to Coors Molsen only two years later, and, in fact, was the first craft brewery in the region to successfully sell out to a giant conglomerate.I say successfully, but breweries often get a bit of stick for this sort of thing. I don’t know about you though, but I think I would take...

Italy takes on Pinot Noir, only it is not new. Much as it may seem like something of a novelty in this part of the world, Italy (along with Austria, Germany and, of course, France) has been making Pinot Noir for at least 900 years, give or take a decade here and there.  Pinot Noir is known as Pinot Nero in Italia, the country with the largest number of grape varieties in the world, most of which are indigenous, such as Barbera, Corvina, Fiano, Freisa, Greco di Tufo, Lagrein, Molinara, Montepulciano, Nebbiolo, Negroamaro, Nerello Mascalese, Nero d'Avola, Rondinella, Sangiovese, Sussumanielo, Timorasso, Verdicchio and Vermentino,...