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 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 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 ...
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 ...
August 3rd, 2008
Every year at Sandihurst we order a number of new French oak barrels from a variety of cooperages for our Pinot Noir. The amount is usually around 25-35% new oak in each wine (about 40 barrels), depending on the blend. Barrels from any one cooper differ in the forest the wood comes from (all forests are on a strict 160 year rotation), their control over the wood selection process, the grain of the wood, the method of drying the oak, ...
July 31st, 2008
Exciting times as we have finished bottling our 2008 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. All 3150 six bottle cases of it. Its great to be making a Sauvignon for the first time but that cant be said for the bottling process itself, unless repetative tedium is your thing. Smaller wineries like us dont have their own bottling line but employ a ...
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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