Here is a nice shot of a lovely group of ladies who visited our vineyard a few weeks ago for a "hen party" for a future bride along with her maids-in-waiting The bride to be- Miss Vicky, under my left arm- is from England and brought up her ladyfriends for an afternoon in Matakana Valley. The other ladies were from NZ, but also Australia, South Africa, England, and America. Thus indicating the true international flavor one sees here in NZ. This was a nice event for me as it was our first ever formal visit of guests to our site to taste our wine.

They all seemed to have a good time--especially as the day went on and after the wine flowed freely!!!!! I even got them out climbing avocado trees to get fresh hanging avos to take home. lucky for me now one fell out of the trees off of the latter. (next time I will organize the fruit picking before the drinking so as to reduce that risk)

We are actually not yet set up for cellar selling or frequent visits to our site as we are really in a working fruit orchard shed and do not yet have a "real" cellar for frequent visitors. However, what we do have is a lovely site, good wine in barrels for sampling and enthusiasm for wine and visitors. If you want to visit us just "come on down"and we will arrange a nice tour but bring your gum boots as we are very primitive.

DR JIM