"Leaving on a Jet Plane"

Well, Sandra and I fly tomorrow back to the God Zone we call Matakana Valley down in NZ. We will be there until Thanksgiving weekend. We wish all our US readers a nice fall season and hope for a nice NZ spring.
We talked to Jeremy our vineyard manager and Sarah who "talks to our grapes" yesterday on the phone and they both say things look good at Hawks Nest and spring has arrived. It will be good to get back and dig in the dirt and drive our tractor to see if I can mow down some more grape vines. (I sometimes have a hard time at doing that safely)

Some people have asked how to get more info on Matakana Valley. Here are two web links that you can visit to check our little valley out.

www.matakanacoast.com

and www.matakanawine.com

you can even order our wine on line if you live in NZ now at

www.matakanacoast.com/indexw.html


More soon

Dr JIM and Sandra