Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

Well, it is another sunny day in Matakana andall us locals are getting ready for the weekend. This is the end of summer and lots of Aucklanders pop up to our valley on nice weekends to get a taste of the country life and one more surf, swim, or fishing trip. There at many locals selling organic produce,breads, cheese ice cream, olive oils, chutney, fresh seasonal fruits and veggies and WINE of course. The ciltdy folk spend a lot of money at the Saturday Matakana Farmers markets--yes we have two going at once on Sat. from 8-1 in our little burg about a mile apart with different focused products. To learn more details about Matakana and what all is available here in our little corner of paradise check out the web site listed below at the end of this note.

Robert Lipman our importer/ wholesaler in Nashville has been in the wholesale wine businessin Nashville all his life as his grandfather held the first legal Tennessee spirts sales license after prohibition. He was an early visitor to Napa Valley way back when no one ourside the bay area of San Fran had ever heard of the area and helped introduce quality Northern California wines to the Mid South via his family's business. Robert and his senior wine team- Jason, Richard and his daughter- Gracie- visited us last May here in Matakana and lucky for us they liked our first vintage enought to offer to help us market it in the Nashville area.--so now Tennesseans can buy quality red NZ wine produced by a Nashville gynecologist. While Robert's group was here he got a quick exposure to our valley and said it reminded him a lot of Napa Valley way back in the 60s. Let's hope he is correct!!

Anyway, we now have our red wine out in the local outlets and are ready for our weekend invasion of city slickers for the Auckland area. Remember that NZ only has 4 million people and 1.4 million of them live in that Auckland region only an hour away--lots of customers for us just down the motorway to the city. We know they will all like our wine as soon as they learn it is finally for sale here in NZ

.Here is the link to the web site about our region. http://www.matakanacoast.com

More after the busy weekend. Remind me to tell you my son's ideas for marketing our wine in a more "exciting" way to the people back in Tenn. when I next post a note. (How does the label name "DOCTOR DOWN UNDER" sound to you?) Maybe a free bottle of wine with each exam and Pap smear?

DR JIM Downunder