WARKWORTH SPRING WINE FESTIVAL

Today was the annual Saturday spring village festival and we had a wine booth for the first time in NZ. It was super fun and Sandra and our manager, Jeremy, helped me man the booth. We sampled a lot of wine, met a lot of nice people and caught up with many of our NZ friends. The photos tell it all.
Note the nice shot I took in our front yard of two of our magnums and one normal bottle of our 05 Orchard Block. Kiwi's rarely get to taste this, our best wine so far, as it sells mostly in Tenn. It was a hit and everyone loved our little wine bibs in lavender to match or wax of that color. (see a recient blog for the story of our waxing!!!)

We were located right next to a couple selling fresh oysters. (did I not mention the matakana has several super oyster farms????) Anyway today I learned how to trade wine for oysters and also determined one adult can actually consume over 4 dozen oysters over a 6 hour period with absolutely no side effects (so far as I write this) What a day!!!!

The other shots show Jeremy and Sandra manning to stall. The group photo is some of our son Brandon''s buddies who came up from Auckland for the day. Neat people and only two dogs in the photo I say. (just kidding guys:):):)) We also sold a lot of fair trade chocolate from Brandon's company-Scarborough Fair. It is really good chocolate and went well with wine and oysters. You can see the colorful bars of choc on the table in front of Jeremy. You can be sure we were the only vineyard offering free choco squares with each drink of our good wine.

BTW, if you are reading this in Tenn. be sure to plan to go to the big Franklin Tenn. Wine on Main Street on Nov 12th,. We will still be here but Lipman Brothers will be offering our wine for that event so go down for the day/eve for a good event.

More soon after I recover from choc/oyster overdosing earlier today.

DR JIM--starting a diet!!!