Wine Dinner at The Watermark, Nashville, TN. on April 23

Well, we just had our last wine event in Nashville for the season at Watermark last night. It was super and all who where there had a really good time. Jason, the manager there organized a wonderful dinner and Lipman Brothers (our importer) had five wines from all around the world to pour as pairings with the food. Here are three shots from the dinner. As you can see, everyone was really enjoying themselves.

The lowest photo features the infamous Ed Fryer of the Wine Shoppe of Green Hills. ( note that he always seems to be traveling with a bevy of lovely ladies and brought two to the dinner last night!!! He is our best retail seller of Hawks Nest wine here in Tennessee and has really helped us with the public relations for our wine over the last two seasons. Thanks for all your help ED!!!!!!

So, now we get all packed to go back to NZ next week. They have picked our Cab Franc without us--shame but the grapes would not wait. We got 5 tons of really ripe grapes with excellent quality of grapes. Our wine maker is really happy and is already busy with the fermentation and plunging of the grapes as he starts his winemaking magic back home in Matakana.

Our next blog will be from back in NZ so look for some photos soon of our 2007 wine making start. All of you in Tenn have a good spring and early summer as we go back to late fall and the harvest season in NZ.

More postings after I get over jet lag!!!

Dr JIm and Miss Sandra