July 12th, 2010
With another frosty start to our day here in Canterbury it makes my mind turn to warming comfort food to keep the chill at bay. Celebrity chef Ray McVinnie recently published a few winter warming recipes in the Sunday Star Times and well known wine writer John Saker chose our 2007 Waipara Pinot Noir as the perfect match. Sounds like a great idea and I will be getting hold ...
June 8th, 2010
Six of our Sandihurst newsgroup members were pretty quick off the mark last week when responding to our latest newsletter in order to secure their winning bottles of our 2007 True & Daring Riesling . Congratulations to Aaron of Dalligton, Kelly from Spreydon, Christina from Wellington, Rebecca from Christchurch, Chris from Christchurch and Sarah from Christchurch. Well done and enjoy your wine!
Becoming part of our ...
June 1st, 2010
Eureka! I Hope! Looks like the blog may now be linking through to our new facebook page. That gives you two places to find up to date news on Sandihurst. Fingers crossed that it continues as smoothly as drinking an award winning Sandihurst Pinot Noir!
May 29th, 2010
Crisp Pork Belly with pineapple salsa matched with the 2007 True & Daring Riesling ( Gold medal winner at the 2010 International Wine Challenge).
Perfectly cooked Venison with beetroot puree matched with the Sandihurst 2007 Central Otago Pinot Noir (Gold medal winner at the 2009 International Wine Challenge).
Enough to get your mouth watering? These two dishes, created by head chef Graeme Fife from The ...
May 27th, 2010
The new Facebook page for Sandihurst is being built - hopefully with a fully functioning link from our blog through to our page. This is a test post to see if the application does what it is supposed to do. It's a digital jungle out there!
April 28th, 2010
CONGRATULATIONS to Sézn's owner Debbie, head chef Matt Schmutsch, his right hand man Ben Doherty and the whole team at Sézn Restaurant & Bar. They have just received 4 stars and a rave review in the latest issue of Cuisine Magazine - on sale now. If you haven't yet had the pleasure of dining at Sézn then call Debbie to make a reservation on 03 381 2496 ...
March 24th, 2010
Countdown to the Christchurch Food Show, only one day left before wine and food lovers from Christchurch and beyond get the opportunity to sip, sample, buy from the amazing selection of exhibitors including Sandihurst! Kirk and I will be at stand 108 so make sure that if you make it to the show you stop by to ...
February 11th, 2010
What a brilliant day! The 2010 South Canterbury Wine & Food Festival in Timaru last Saturday was a huge success. A new venue this year at the Botanical Gardens which worked really well. It was a fabulous turnout with visitors enjoying the successful combination of great weather, fantastic wine, scrumptious food and live music in aid of Hospice South Canterbury. Our True ...
January 12th, 2010
I have been reading a business book lately and several chapters cover the whole issue of branding which, as we all know, can be crucial to a product's future. It made me think of Riesling.
We get many visitors to the Cellar Door who start to tremor when you mention tasting Rieslings. Their faces speak a thousand words exhibiting fear of the imminent. You can tell that they have already ...
December 20th, 2009
Reindeer Sweater Wine Bottle Cover
Four days to go before Christmas and as per my usual style the Christmas gifts are left to the last minute. With the traffic through the cellar door being pretty hectic it doesn't allow much time to trot into town and browse. But of course if all else fails there are the websites that can offer all you could ever think ...
As warm and gracious as she is graceful, former professional ballerina Celia is blessed with nerves of steel and the divine spark of adventure.
Born in England and convent-educated, Celia graduated from The Royal Ballet School to travel the globe with the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. It was in Portugal under Companhia Nacional de Bailado that she was swept off her finely-turned feet by Afrikaner Hennie (in the Foreign Service), only to be deposited in a state of marital bliss in South Africa. No sooner had she wiped the dust from her eyes and the happy couple been delivered of first-born Nicholas, than a posting to warring Mozambique did come calling. Following the arrival of Sean (joyous) and a stint with the Women’s Diplomatic Corps (tedious), Celia returned en famille to SA. While husband and sons occupied themselves with commerce and growing up respectively, and not without her help, she invested her unlimited energies into her own personal training business. Life was good.
Eventually, however, the said finely-turned feet and Hennie’s slightly less dainty ones developed an itch that brought them all to New Zealand and to the development of the multi award-winning Sandihurst. And for which wine lovers all over the world shall be eternally grateful.
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