' tis the season... We'll be closed from 24th December until 9th January 2012. Cellar Door re-opens for tastings and sales from 9th January 2012. We plan on having a wonderful time with our family and friends and we would like to wish each and everyone the same - have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year! From all of us here ...

Then wine is its perfect partner, but choose well... A new study reveals wine drinkers should also consider what's playing on their stereo if they want the perfect tipple. The study shows that people   who drink wine while listening to music perceive the wine to have the same taste characteristics of the particular artist. The research published in the British Journal of Psychology found that for the best earthy and full-bodied Merlot ...

Cool Climate wine making on a seriously cool scale! For the first time in 3 years we had snow down to sea level on Monday bringing an already crippled Christchurch to a stand still. To take a quote from Tiana (phonetic) from the Campbell Live television show it was the 'Icing on the Quake'!

As we will be particpating in the TEDxEQChCh event on Saturday 21st May, unfortunately the Cellar Door will be closed that day. Normal hours 11am to 5pm resume on Sunday 22nd May. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Sandihurst once again is proud to be one of the sponsors at this year's TEDxEQChCh event. Taking place this Saturday 21st May at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High School, the focus for this special event:  The Re-Imagination of Christchurch. This one-day event is focused entirely on the future of the city and features speakers like Art Agnos, the former Mayor of San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, ...

The New Zealand Government has launched an appeal to help all those affected by the devastating earthquake on 22nd Feb. 

The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal is a global fundraiser and the appeal has the full force of the New Zealand Government behind it. It is designed to complement appeals and fundraisers already being run by established organisations.

Your support for Christchurch is a part of a global response,

Given the tragedy in Christchurch, as well as the fact that we need to see to family members in Lyttelton, the Cellar Door will be closed on Saturday 26th Feb and Sunday 27th Feb. We will re-open on Monday 28th Feb, normal hours 11am to 5pm.

  The Grammy awards joined up with ReCORK this year, a cork recycling organization (video of Muse - Best Rock Band album). Only wines sealed with natural corks were served during the awards ceremony, and all corks pulled at the event went to be recycled. The discarded Grammy corks will go to SOLE, a Canadian company that specializes in footwear ...

There has been a lot of talk from Australia to the USA about alcohol companies being the next in line to be required to display nutritional information on their packaging for beer, wine and spirits. Federal and state food ministers in Australia have already received a long-awaited report about the proposed changes to the labelling laws in Australia. The report recommends an end to an exemption for alcohol companies to ...