From your Committee
As you might expect, in the current Level 4 Emergency status, your club has effectively gone into adjournment, albeit your committee continues to communicate and make plans for the year ahead. Our April tasting with The Crater Rim has been...
Read MoreSocial Distancing in the Cellar: German and Austrian Vintners Grapple with Coronavirus Shutdown
Aleks Zecevic | Mar 31, 2020 | Wine Spectator With tasting rooms closed for the COVID-19 crisis, wineries are dealing with slumping sales; meanwhile, spring is arriving in the vineyards. Germany and Austria have not been immune to the ravaging...
Read MoreCoronavirus: New documents show strict wine industry protocols during lockdown
Maia Hart | Mar 29, 2020 | Stuff.co.nz Strict vintage rules include workers living off-site having to send a photo to their COVID-19 manager of their "daily-routine" to show they are staying socially isolated. If wineries are in doubt about...
Read MoreDog helps winery deliver orders during Covid-19
31st March 2020 by Phoebe French | thedrinksbusiness.com For Stone House Urban Winery, coronavirus means all hands, and paws, to the pump. The winery, which is located in Hagerstown and was founded last year, has closed its tasting room but...
Read MoreMarlborough concert celebrates ‘artistic connection’ of music and wine
Sophie Trigger | The Marlborough Express, 4 Mar 2020 Everything goes better with wine does it not? Every time Marlborough cellist Elgee Leung drinks a gran reserva or gran arzuaga he gets to thinking about a Spanish cellist composer's music, Cassado, and...
Read MoreThe Crater Rim, Waipara – Lyn Timms – Apr 2020
From the Ashes Range Premium Range Icon Range The first vintage produced by The Crater Rim was from a small hillside vineyard, high above the town of Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula – and so the brand ‘The Crater Rim’...
Read MoreGuillaume Thomas and Esther Smith – Maison Noire – Feb 2020
A great presentation from Guillaume with assistance from Esther. There was a good turnout of members and Maison Noire was more than happy with the level of the orders. A little glitch with getting some orders to members, but this...
Read MoreCelebratory activities, Important things, Maison Noire
Celebratory activities It’s the first of our celebratory activities for the year this month. The day trip to the Wairarapa promises to be a real highlight. A great deal of work has been put into the organisation of the day...
Read MoreDay trip to the Wairarapa – 21 March 2020
Palliser Estate Wines grava Martinborough Alana Wines Coney Wines This is a full-day excursion, leaving Wellington Railway Station at 9.55 am and arriving back at 6.30 pm. Details of train and bus connections, and any costs that that might entail,...
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History in the bubbles
History in the bubbles: 105 and still loving her bubbly| Joelle Thomson – 16/12/19 (This item is something of a prelude to our proposed June tasting. It relates to Dawn Ibbotson who is the matriarch of the Ibbotson family who...
Read MoreCentral Otago: The New Zealand wine region with vineyards to rival Burgundy
Susy Atkins, Daily Telegraph UK | July 2024 The world’sRead more…