“Toasted nuts, caramel, milk chocolate and tobacco,” sounds like a modern Bordeaux with about ten or fifteen years of age. But we’re not talking about wine. We’re talking about coffee.
This is the first of a series of three articles on the terroir of Central Otago, the most southerly wine growing region in the world, at 45 degrees South, marked by a dry, semi-continental climate.
This is the last of a three part series on the terroirs of New Zealand’s Central Otago. After Gibbston and Wanaka and The Cromwell Basin and Bannockburn, we are finishing with Bendigo and The Alexandra Basin, the two lowest elevation, most easterly sub-regions.