The French Café

This is a New Zealand forward list of 229 wines with a red lean, built around domestic names like Te Mata Coleraine, Hans Herzog, and Foxes Island Marlborough alongside Hamilton Russell from Hemel en Aarde. Pricing is in New Zealand dollars, bottles running from 13 up to 2,300, with a median around 195, so there is genuine everyday drinking alongside the occasional splurge. Dessert and fortified wines get a real section, unusual depth for a list this size, matched by an equal run of Champagne and sparkling. The 37 glass pours are generous relative to the 229 bottle count, making this an easy list to work through by the glass before committing. Vintages span 1969 to 2025.

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