Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

Hawks Nest Wines of NZ

A mate of mine here in Nashville asked me yesterday what was the deal with our front label with the chimney and weather vane. If visit our vineyard, you will see the lonely chimney shown in this photograph from last fall. (those lovely golden leaves are on our malbec vines just before they drop off for winter). When we bought our property in 1998 there was an old run down home sitting in our front paddock which had a crumbling chimney. We removed the house but restored the chimney and it is our visual feature that one sees when they drive along the road at the front of our vineyard. Soon we will put a barbeque and picnic area around it. We subsequently planted vines around the chimney and added the weather vane along with a stylized hawk on top to blow in the wind.

Why the name Hawks Nest? Well, there are tons of hawks that soar over our site coasting on the wind. They eat the small rodents and thus help us out. They also scare away smaller birds at harvest who are always trying to eat our ripening grapes. Thus we love the hawks!!!!!

We are off back to NZ tomorrow so it may be a bit before my next post!!

DR Jim--heading back Down Under