New Zealand Wines | Fortified Wines | Spirits | Liqueurs | Beer
Generally, the bottles of New Zealand red or white wines a customer selects are particular varietals from many NZ wineries but with such a selection that we couldn’t itemise tasting notes for each. You, the customer, will choose them from our website by price relying on The Beautiful Box Company to select an interesting quality NZ wine for the price you wish to pay. However, we have featured wines from a few particular wineries and we list tasting notes and information on these below.
Tohu Winery was developed as part of a corporation of indigenous people keen to further develop and promote things to do with the land – commercial land development, farming, horticulture, fishing and viticulture. Progress in viticulture advancement has led proudly now to include exporting of wines from their very first Maori winery in New Zealand. The winery is well recognised internationally with a reputation for many gold, silver and bronze medalled wines over the years. Even their pinot grapes have been handpicked!
Proudly owned and developed by a Maori Trust, Tohu Winery say their wine is their gift from the land where time begins (Nga Hua A te Whenua). It is exported all over the world. We stock their top Sauvignon Blanc, an excellent traditional chardonnay and an elegant Pinot Noir but can obtain other special Tohu wines by emailed enquiry.
Tohu Sauvignon Blanc 2007
750 ml bottle
Winemaker Simon Waghorn
Awards:
Elite Gold Medal – Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2007
5 stars - Winestate Magazine 2008
Gold Best of Class – in the USA’s National Women’s Wine Competition 2008
Alcohol: 13%alc/vol
Residual sugar 4.0g/L
Tasting Notes: Lovely to look at and lovely to taste! Despite being such a pale green, straw coloured wine with fresh nose of gooseberries, herbs and peppers with a little citrus this wine will surprise as it has delightfully fresh clean botanical flavourings.
This sauvignon blanc is a particularly wonderful wine with vegetarian meals, salads and all types of seafood and shellfish.
Tohu Gisborne Chardonnay 2006 – Lightly oaked
750ml bottle
Awards:
4 Stars - Cuisine Magazine 2008
Silver Medal - Royal Easter Wine Show 2008
Alcohol: 13.5%
Residual Sugar: 4.2g/L
Titratable Acidity: 6.1g/L
Tasting Notes: This is a classic Gisborne Chardonnay wine displaying peach and other stone fruit characteristics. A light touch of oak adds a creamy note and heightens the fruit flavours. The grape juice was fermented in barriques to give the wine a great palate.
This is a very adaptable wine enjoyed lightly chilled with a cheese board, dried fruit and anti pasto or at mealtimes with a wide variety of foods from pasta to poultry.
Marlborough Pinot Noir 2007
750ml bottle
Awards:
5 Stars - Winestate Magazine 2008
Alcohol: 13%
Residual Sugar: <1g/L
Cooperage: New and Old French Oak barriques
Tasting Notes: The wine has cherry and plum aromas and a classical, elegant full palate structure.
The Marlborough pinot grapes were hand-harvested and lightly pressed with fermentation completed in French oak barriques to add to the silky texture and light game bouquet.
The Tohu pinot noir is an ideal accompaniment when dining on lamb, red meat or a hearty fish like salmon.
Askerne winery is your classic New Zealand boutique winery owned by the Loughlins of Hawkes Bay, a busy, entreprenuerial husband and wife team who have built the winery from scratch stoney river land and apple orchards where sheep wandered into an exciting award winning winery. Having originally used their energy and enthusiasm to create the very best white wines they could, they have now expanded their winery operation by developing more adjacent apple orchards into vineyard land and in creating more red wine varieties such as a successful pinot noir and the relatively unusual dessert cabernet that Giftboxes can sell you. Their careful hands-on approach and oversight of the vineyard, coupled with a real passion for what they do has resulted in some excellent prize winning wines.
Askerne Gewurztraminer 2006
750ml bottle
Winemaker Craig Thomas
Awards:
Gold medal Bragato Wine Awards
Silver Medal Hawkes Bay Mercedes Benz Wine Show 2007
4 stars Winestate 2007
Alcohol: 13.5%
Residual sugar: 8.5g/L
The Askerne Gewurztraminer white wine is the flagship wine varietal of this boutique winery where the grapes are handpicked and sorted. Much of the wine pick for this year was fermented in tanks and matured in aged French oak barriques.
I can’t improve on the words of the winemakers who describe this wine as having “concentrated spice, rose petal and tropical fruit characters flowing through in the palate to produce this richly textured, full bodied Gewürztraminer”.
A beautiful aromatic wine perfect for drinking with light, spicy Asian type meals.
Askerne Chardonnay 2006
750 ml bottle
Winemaker Craig Thomas
Awards: Winestate 4 star
Silver medal Liquorland
Bronze medal New Zealand International Wine Show 2007
Alcohol: 13%
Residual sugar: 1 g/L
This wine received malolactic fermentation with many months maturation in oak barrels which has resulted in a smooth wine with typical chardonnay characteristics such as slightly smokey, mealy, nutty bread aromas and citrus, stone fruit flavours.
This chardonnay is a very adaptable wine for dining best eaten with fish, white meats or Asian style meals.
Askerne Dessert Cabernet
375 ml bottle sweet dessert wine
Alcohol 17%
Residual sugar 50g/L
The late hand harvested grapes were fermented before being stopped with the addition of alcohol and matured for one year in French oak barrels resulting in a small bottle of plush dark berry, blackcurrant harmonious fruit flavours which fill the mouth with rich thick, almost chocolatey taste sensations!
This dessert wine should be served cold but not chilled – if anything is better served at warm room temperature and would suit being served with cheese before or after dinner or as a dessert in its own right being so full of fruitfulness and appealingly pleasant tasting without being cloying or overpoweringly syrupy-sweet. Ideal to follow the main meat meal served with a sweet chocolate cheesecake or stone fruit pudding. Will cellar well.
Kim Crawford’s wines are well recognised, as much for the aura of the winemaker’s skills and his wife, Erica’s, marketing genius! This complementary marriage of skills, linked to the quality and excellence of their wine, has resulted in a full range of inspired wines.
The 750 ml bottle of 2005 Liebling is one that we ‘must have’ to offer you as a wine lover of aromatic wines or simply a lover due to its heart label as, in case you didn’t realise, “Liebling” means “darling” in German!
Although both wines were good enough to stand on their own, Winemaker Matt Large blended a lovely Gisborne Gewurztraminer wine with a Waipara Riesling resulting in this very appealing Liebling wine displaying interesting aromatic, seductive qualities.
Kim Crawford Liebling 2005 Gewurztraminer Riesling
750ml bottle
Blended by winemaker Matt Large.
Alcohol: 13.18%
Residual sugar: 8.6g/L
Titratable acidity: 6.7 g/L
You can expect this exciting wine to have a citrus, floral aromas with a light honey tone and a full rich palate of lychees and roses.
A wine to be particularly enjoyed on its own or shared with someone special.
Five Flax Wines
Five Flax wine is a choice array of cheap New Zealand wines which won’t let you down. The Five Flax Riesling, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc offered by us for our gift box selection of wine and food are recognised as being amazingly inexpensive, good quality wines with typical varietal style.
The label displays a flax plant which is indigenous to New Zealand – the useful plant Maori continue to use to this day for weaving mats, baskets and bags (kete) so this is a real NZ wine! We stock the three wines mentioned above but are able to obtain the Five Flax Merlot Cabernet or the Five Flax sparkling chardonnay cuvee for the same price.
The Pernod Ricard Five Flax wine collection are all fresh, lively and interesting wine varietals produced and bottled using modern techniques and with characteristic features pertaining to the land where the grapes were grown. The wines yield pleasing flavours with a gentle, natural finish and each bottle has a screw cap to maintain the flavoursome qualities exactly as when the wine was bottled.
Five Flax East Coast Riesling 2006
750 mls
12% alc/vol
A value for money, simple yet bright and deliciously fresh Riesling with pleasant floral aromas with orangey citrus overtones. The citrus is refreshing on the palate but is balanced nicely with the spicy honeyed Riesling flavours. Enjoy as a pre-dinner drink with cheeses and sweet dips. This wine will cellar well for up to 7 years.
Five Flax East Coast Chardonnay 2006
750 ml bottle
13% alc.vol
Unoaked chardonnay
Another wine of excellent value for the price paid with creamy Pacific fruit flavours and a pleasant lasting after taste. This wine, grown from North Island East Coast grapes, is a very typical NZ chardonnay to be socially enjoyed with friends or family. Match with casual meals of pizza or chicken or save it for up to 5 years!
Five Flax Sauvignon Blanc 2007
750 ml bottle
12.5% alc/vol
The greenish tinge to this lovely wine is very typical of fresh New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc wines. It has appealing stimulating flavours and characteristic mild fruit overtones.
This sauvignon blanc is a great wine to drink with meals of fish, seafood or salads as well as with soft cheese and fresh fruit. Is best drunk while newly bottled but will cellar for up to 3 years.
Mulled wine
Prenzel’s products are entirely made of naturally gleaned New Zealand ingredients blended together to make something entirely new and fresh. Their mulled wine is a concentrated version of a traditional European type mulled wine. The concentrated red wine is spiced with cinnamon, cloves, lemon and lots of little secrets! Use it in the same way as cordial by pouring a little of the concentrate into a mug or glass – one which will withstand the heat - and just add very hot, near boiling, water to make the perfect winter pick-me-up! Contents of 750 ml bottle make up with water to a total of 2 litres of mulled wine.
11% alc/vol
Mazurans Vineyards Ltd
The Mazuran family have been vintners of fine wines for decades, after George Mazuran arrived in New Zealand from Croatia in 1926. He bought land and planted it out in Henderson, West Auckland and four years later harvested his first crop of grapes. Over the years the wines have known outstanding success with many accolades and medals. The family remain working the property producing wine to this day and have specialised in fortified wines, some wine in stock dating back to 1942! Their Director’s Port won double gold in the 2005 San Francisco International Wine Competition – a proud achievement and we are proud to bring it to you!
Proud to bring to you some gorgeous quality port – the double gold winning Director’s Port and silver medal winning Special Reserve Port in a hand-crafted pottery jar on a NZ historical theme. Produced on the family owned winery in Henderson, Auckland where every effort is made to ensure the end result is an all quality dark, almost opaque, creamy port.
Mazurans Directors Port
Double Gold Medal USA International Wine Competions 2005
19% alc/vol 750 ml bottle
Mazurans Special Reserve Port in ceramic crock
Silver Medal USA International Wine Competitions 2005
19% alc/vol
750 mls in pottery jar presented as an exclusive boxed NZ historical gift – see “Drinkable Gifts” and “Historical Gifts” . Priced according to volume in crock.
South Gin has the status of being the best gin in the world having won the prestigious Grand Gold Medal with Palm Leaves at World Selection, Brussels for several years running and also having also secured the International High Quality Trophy, a top award from the Monde Spirits and Liqueurs Selection for having triumphantly won successive gold medals over at least three successive years.
This gin wins gold medals whichever major liquor competition it enters!
South Gin has deliberately fresh floral layers combining to create a complex yet delicate tipple – likened to walking through the garden after a drop of spring rain! But apart from the content, the bottle itself is a masterpiece! 40% alc/vol.
42 BELOW South Gin
Awards:
Grand Gold Medal with Palm Leaves at World Selection several years running
Winner of gold medals wherever the gin is entered in competitions worldwide
Now available in two sizes of elegant stylish bottles 500mls and 700mls
A premium, botanical styled gin with fresh and fragrant floral layers that combine to create a complex yet delicate tipple. This gin has real NZ input from the slight hint of manuka berries and kawakawa leaves linked with other botanicals such as juniper berries, citrus, coriander seeds, angelica leaves, orris and gentian root.
South Gin is also available in pottery jars in a range of exclusive boxed gifts on a “NZ historical” theme. Priced according to liquor volume content. See “Drinkable Gifts” and “Historical Gifts
Using the finest of barleys, the creators of the single malt whisky now marketed under the name Milford, knew a thing or two about quality. Water was drawn and peat acquired from the upper catchment area of the South Island’s Taieri River which originated from snow melt in the Lammerlaw Ranges. It is lighter in body and aroma than the malts of the Scottish Highlands yet is elegant with a delicate nose, soft citrus in flavour and a very smooth finish.
Now I’m never sure whether this is true or not but this single malt whisky has a story to tell!
The Willowbank Distillery in Dunedin was established around 30 years ago by businessmen of Scottish heritage. The distillery and its product have changed ownership over the years and sadly the distillery equipment has been dismantled. During this time, a limited number of the maturing casks of whisky lay largely forgotten and it slept for a decade, undisturbed. Some whisky has lain longer still! Hard to believe isn’t it but what the New Zealand Single Malt Whisky Company secured in their purchase was a limited quantity of casked single malt whisky in a style similar to the Lowlands of Scotland – lighter in body and aroma than the malts of the highlands, yet elegant with a delicate nose, soft citrus in flavour and a very smooth finish. Milford will reward you as it has the palates of the world’s most discriminatory tasters and enthusiasts!
Milford Single Malt Whisky
12 year old – aged in oak casks
43% alc/vol 750 mls
The 12 y.o. single malt whisky has rich aroma and good colour. It’s rather a lovely appealing malt with a sophisticated aroma, a hint of dry nuts and warm heather honey. On the palate, smooth with a long, warming, spirit glow.
Milford Single Malt Whisky Bottle in Presentation Tube
A beautiful presentation bottle of whisky in a decorative tube showing artwork of Milford Sound, New Zealand.
The 12 y.o. single malt whisky has rich aroma and good colour. It’s rather a lovely appealing malt with a sophisticated aroma, a hint of dry nuts and warm heather honey. On the palate, smooth with a long, warming, spirit glow.
Milford Whisky is also available as:
Ceramic crock of whisky: Milford single malt whisky in a pottery jar on a NZ historical theme – see photograph or read more on “Drinkable Gifts” or “Historical Gifts”. Price dependent upon liquor volume – 500mls or 750mls.
Small Flask of whisky
10 year old Milford Single Malt Whisky – aged in oak casks
43% alc/vol
100ml flask of 10 yr old Milford single malt whiskey
40% alc/vol 700 ml
Roaring Forties Rum is considered a real find by rum aficionados. It has an inviting dark colour, reminiscent of the pot-stilled rums of times past which sets the tone for this very good rich, full bodied rum. The impressive aromatic aromas are of oak and caramel with a hint of nutmeg. The drink opens nicely in the mouth, with just a touch of raw sugar flavour and ends with a long, pleasantly smooth finish for a dark rum.
The owner of this New Zealand rum distillery producing Roaring Forties Rum knows what he is doing as he hails from the Caribbean and has managed to produce an aged oak rum which constantly wins acclaim and has actually won a bronze medal at the famous Rumfest in Barbados - quite an achievement! Made from totally 100% natural ingredients it is a dark rum with very aromatic bouquet which has been aged in oak and has the typical deep rounded caramelly, raw sugar Pacific flavours.
Also available as our exclusive “Dusky Bay Rum” in a pottery jar displaying NZ’s first European artifact being the medal that Captain Cook brought to NZ in 1773. A full description about Dusky Bay, a pamphlet regarding the medal and this to quality rum will make such a pleasing gift. Priced according to liquor volume.
Roaring Forties Poire Eau-de-Vie
37% alc/vol. 750 ml
Chosen by many of South Pacific Distillery’s European customers as their drink of choice, this aged schnaps style drink is described as truly magnificent and lives up to its English translation as “Water of Life”.
From a reputable NZ distillery, this schnaps-style drink is carefully distilled from fresh New Zealand pears which we call Pear Brandy (fruit based brandy not grape based). It is made from 100% natural grain based ingredients with no preservatives, chemicals or artifical flavours added. Pear Eau-de-Vie is best drunk at room temperature in a relaxed atmosphere and is especially enjoyed after meals with cheese/biscuits or wonderful with coffee. Can be served chilled or over ice!
Also available in an exclusive Historical jar of Backcountry Pear Brandy
We have re-named Roaring Forties fruit based brandy (37% alc/vol.) “Backcountry Brandy” and enclosed it in a pottery jar displaying a replica of a farming medal from North Otago’s Agricultural and Pastoral Show 1876. The jar comes with a fancy cork of a merino sheep and is presented in a box covered with artwork from the late 1800’s along with a pamphlet telling the story of early farming in New Zealand. Priced according to volume of liquor.
Redwood Cellars
Whisky Cream Liqueur
17% alc/vol. 750 ml Pottery Jar (ceramic crock)
Unique and exclusive Historical Gift box of Whisky Cream Liqueur
This prize winning quality whisky cream is smooth and warming and presented in handcrafted pottery jars in the most beautiful boxes. Some jars have fancy corks and all but one display replicas of old NZ medals with appropriately linked artwork and information storyline pamphlet.
We have re-named this whisky cream “Colonial Whisky Cream” and have filled exclusive hand-thrown pottery jars with the liqueur. The liqueur has been produced using fresh whole cream blended with natural flavourings to produce an exceptionally smooth liqueur. 750 mls put into various designed boxing of an early NZ historical nature. 17% alc/vol.
Set 1 comes in gift box relating to early NZ settlement and Port Cooper (Lyttelton) showing 1772 replica medal of Capt. Cooks 2nd journey to southern waters.
Set 2 comes in gift box relating to Clydesdale horses and how important they were to early settlers for breaking in the land and roadmaking. Fancy shire horse cork.
Set 3 comes in gift box relating to the visit of Captain Cook on his second stopover in Dusky Bay, NZ’s Fiordland in the Resolution and Adventure in 1773. Displays replica of medal brought on the journey “ to conciliate the goodwill” of the natives and “as testimony to our being the first discoverers”.
Set 4 comes in gift box relating to early farming in New Zealand and displaying a beautiful medal of old fashioned animals from the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Show of 1876. Comes with a fancy cork of a merino sheep.
Set 5 is a plain pottery jar (no medal) with a rock on the cork and comes in a different box covered with five different copies of authentic old goldmining pictures from the Otago region in the late eighteen hundreds. Totally unique.
Cheswood Estate’s Chesnique
Chestnut Liqueur
Chesnique’s Sweet Chestnut Liqueur is one of only very few chestnut liqueurs produced in the world. Cheswood Estate was established with extensive planting of 1200 chestnut trees in the late 1800’s and this has led to development, over the last few years, of this most unusual exclusive liqueur with a slightly smoky natural nutty flavour. Simply sip it straight, put a dash in your coffee or enjoy mixing it with other alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks. 21% alc/vol. The Europeans are going to love this over the festive season!
Cheswood Estate
Chesnique Sweet Chestnut Liqueur
21% alc/vol
Chesnique Chestnut Liqueur comes with a sheet of recipes to help with a huge variety of ideas for mixing with other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. It’s just wonderful by itself though and should be simply sipped first before thinking of other ways to drink it!
Stocked in 250 ml presentation bottle
Please enquire by email for larger sized bottles of similar shape 500 mls and 750 mls
Distillerie Deinlein
Kiwi Gold Liqueur
26% alc/vol.
Small 100 ml presentation bottle
With perfection in mind, Distillerie Deinlein has hand-crafted and distilled fantastic ZESPRI™ GOLD Kiwifruit to produce a delectable liqueur with tantalising flavours of combined melon, peach and citrus. Considered a lucky liqueur as has 23 carat gold floating in the liqueur! Sold in an attractive 100ml fancy bottle.
Distillerie Deinlein’s Kiwi Gold Liqueur – from a naturally produced ZESPRI™ GOLD Kiwifruit distillate blended with fresh spring water and sugars. Kiwi gold Liqueur has been carefully made from hand sorted ZESPRI™ GOLD Kiwifruit from only top quality fruit and has 26% alc/vol. The ZESPRI™ GOLD Kiwifruit has been developed since 1970 to produce as near to perfect fruit as is possible - evaluated for taste, colour, size, storage and shelf-life. The liqueur should be considered seriously but does have a fun factor as it has the added attraction and novelty of having real 23 carat gold leaf added to each 100ml attractive bottle. Kiwi Gold Liqueur has a tantalising complex flavour and aroma of melon, peach and citrus – wonderful tropical flavours!
Johnz Christmas Honey Mead – a delicious sweet and spicy mead made from fermented honey blended with exotic spices. John, a Celtic Liqueur maker from Wales, has come to live in New Zealand and and is now making his NZ fruit liqueurs available to the public. Mead is also known as the honeymoon drink as it is supposed to aid one’s prowess as a lover! May suit part of the wedding gift you are planning! Small bottle of taste delight 13.9% alc/vol. $12.50
Liberton Holdings Ltd
Otago Goldfield’s Fortified Cream Liqueur
750 ml bottle
14% alc/vol
A versatile Irish Cream flavoured product fortified with wine brings exceptional traditional rounded, creamy smoothness to the palate. To be enjoyed just as it is, over ice, mixed as a cocktail, in coffee or wonderful over ice-cream!!
This bottle is ideal for packing into our exclusive “Goldseekers” box displaying copies of authentic photographs of the gold mining era for added interest.
Perfect also for a Golden Wedding Anniversary gift.
General Beers:
We sell these general beers by the bottle or can. They have all won awards as top NZ beers over the years but quite often other great beers to win awards are draught beers which we obviously can’t feature!
Epic Pale Ale
Epic reckon they are obsessed to produce big hop-fuelled beers! This particular top NZ pale ale is brewed using 15 different hops to get a great taste experience. 5.4% alc/vol. 330ml bottle
Mac’s Sassy Red
Best described on its amusing label as having “nutty biscuity hints and an aroma that is like sticking your head in a hop sack” and that just about says it all! Very popular this beer is brewed by Mac’s Brewery in Nelson. 4.5% alc/vol 330 ml bottle
Steinlager Classic in a can
A ‘can of Steinlager’ is almost Kiwi enough to put in a dictionary. Everyone loves it from student days onwards. It’s probably NZ’s most popular beer and a consistent prize winning beer since 1977 through to current times!
Best described as a fresh almost herbal, robust, slightly bitter beer great to drink while dining on Italian style herbal pasta meals or spicy dishes. 5% alc/vol 330 ml can
Speight’s Distinction
A premium dark ale brewed in Dunedin from five different malts to achieve a big, malty bitter beer with buttery overtones of caramel. Very popular and a great NZ traditional beer for eating with old fashioned cuisine such as stews, casseroles and big red steaks! 5% alc/vol 330 ml bottle
Other top beers which can be bought separately are Wigram’s Spruce Beer and Munchner Dunkel plus Stonecutter Scotch Ale from Renaissance Brewery which are all listed separately below.
Wigram Brewing Company
This is an entrepreneurial Christchurch brewer with lots of exciting ideas and vision, featuring modern renditions of old style or pioneer beers using up-to-date techniques and a bit of Kiwi pizzazz and ingenuity.
All large 500ml bottles of Wigram beers are best served slightly chilled.
Spruce Beer
This is an entrepreneurial beer! Spruce Beer is based on the original recipe used by Captain Cook when he brewed his own beer concoction from native trees and plants on his visit to Dusky Bay, in New Zealand’s Fiordland, in 1773. It is a 5% alc/vol brewed with no hops and has a clean, astringent quality and slightly honey-like taste and is very good for you being chocka full of antioxidants! Be prepared to be surprised - you’ll like it!
A silver medal and Champion Speciality Beer .
Munchner Dunkel:
Awards: Gold award Best beer in class Australian Beer Awards 2007
5% alc/vol
An enjoyable rich, full malt, German styled dark lager crafted with premium Munich malt balanced with german hops to give it pleasant almost herbal malt aromas and a clean lager toffeeish finish.
Kortegast Sparkling Ale
The newest of the beers from Wigram, using remnant outcrops of wild hops growing on the West Coast of New Zealand previously grown there in the late 1800’s by the Kortegast Brewing Company which manufactured beer in Hokitika from 1865 before burning down in 1900.
A sparkling ale of slightly red hue and bitterness with strong hop aromas. A refreshing and different beer!
Wooden Box of beer holding the following three different beer styles:
Bavarian Pilsner * (pale bitter lager)
Harvard Honey Ale* (coppery coloured medium ale with real bush honey finish)
Munchner Dunkel (rich malty dark lager) - the previously mentioned gold medal beer
*can only be purchased in this wooden gift box unless ordered in quantity
The Bavarian Pilsner is another German style lager using a blend of Munich malt with a different German Tettnanger hop creating a reminiscent German pilsner ale with a light malt and strong hop aroma.
5% alc/vol.
Havard Honey Ale is a very good, slightly sweet, English style malt beer which was fermented using ale yeast. This ale tastes particularly good due to the interesting flavour and aroma of the natural organic bush honey introduced during production.
6% alc/vol
The wooden box also holds the gold medal Munchner Dunkel which is also available individually by the bottle and tasting notes already appear above.
Renaissance Brewing Ltd
We sell four of the Renaissance ale selections which are classy beers with beautiful labels in true renaissance style so much so that even the labels have won their own awards! All sold in big 500ml bottles
- The Stonecutter Scotch Ale is sold individually in a bottle, or alternatively
- in one of our New Zealand themed gift boxes of three ales (Stonecutter, Perfection and Elemental) .
- in the special Renaissance gift box of 4 different ales (with the addition of a pale ale called Discovery)
Stonecutter Scotch Ale is a malty, rich and full bodied ale which has warmed the cockles of the judges hearts awarding it a gold medal prize at the Brew NZ Beer Awards! This popular fruity ale with complex sweet roast flavours is what the brewers term as their ‘beer with big heart’ made from nine different malts and great for enjoying with winter style meaty stews, hearty roasts or sipped while crunching on our wild thyme shortbread! 7% alc/vol
Stonecutter Scotch Ale is the only Renaissance ale available separately in a bottle unless quantity is required for a corporate gift. 500 ml bottle
Renaissance box of 4 beers:
The following three ales are sold with the Scotch Ale in an attractively designed Renaissance box for 4 different ales. They are only sold in this box unless an order is placed for beer in quantity.
Perfection Pale Ale is one of the ales which are in gift boxed selections. It is based on a classic English Pale Ale with a Kiwi twist. Produced with four different malts it is pale amber in colour with lovely slightly sweet toffee nut flavours due to the use of London ale yeast in its production.
Match this ale with some of our tasty cheese and pickle for a great beer and food gift combination. To be enjoyed with fish and chips and casual meals or on picnics. 5% alc/vol.
Elemental Porter Ale is another one of the ales only available in gift boxed selections. It is a rich, mellow, dark ale often associated and popular with people of mature years due to it relaxing qualities and full bodied chocolatey malt flavours. It is brewed in what is termed “robust” roast malt style. 6% alc/vol.
Discovery American Pale Ale
A unique pale ale only available in the Renaissance gift box of four ales. Described by the NZ based American born brewer as being punchy yet refreshingly, crisp and aromatic whilst showcasing Nelson grown hops in a quite different style to what New Zealand is used to. The brewers reckon you’ll remember your first Discovery Ale and enjoy is acidic fruitfulness and tangy resins.
This ale complements Mexican taco meals, spicy food or when dunking tortilla chips in salsa. 4.5% alc/vol.
