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The Hawkes Bay Gourmet Experience was a wild success last weekend, and we are all happily exhausted after talking to and pouring wine for what felt like a million people. Thanks to all of you who braved the yucky weather to come and say hello, try some wine and take some home. To all of you who signed on to our newsletter last weekend welcome aboard, and as promised we will be including more tips to avoiding housework in the future. We should also give our thanks to the guys at the L'affare stand, who kept us loaded to the eyeballs with caffeine.
For images of all kinds of madness from the show click on this.
Reserve 2004 stole the show, stealing the thunder of heavy hitter The Doctor. We only made a tiny 175 cases of this wonderful wine and there are now only 80 cases left. For those of you who put off buying some at the show because your bags were already too heavy we recommend you get onto it now. We will hook you up with a 6 pack for only $150 with free del ivery in New Zealand. Brilliant.
This will also be one of the last times to use our clunker ordering system before things change for the better. For those of you who get excited about geeky things: We will have a new ordering system up and running in the next few weeks, it will be all shiny and fancy. We will let you know when you can test it out with some hot specials to order, until that time, click on this and we will set you up with some Reserve 2004 at a sizzling price.
We also talked up a new recipe to a lot of you, so click on this to access Colleens (of hot spinach dip fame) secret unexpected guest recipe for cheesy red pepper muffins. We know it sounds odd, but so did the dip, and we all know how amazing that turns out, so just run with it. Again this is fast and easy enough that Rachel can make them, which is saying a lot as toast is usually about as fancy as her cooking gets.
We are totally done and dusted with the hard slog of harvest, and a ll our vines are now blowing naked in the breeze, we took a couple of pictures of the guys wrestling with the grapes, so check them out here.
Now the spooky story of the year has to go to Tahi 2005. This wine is unlabeled and unreleased, in fact, in terms of sales it does not even exist, so why then, was a label found floating around the sports field at Roesneath Primary school in Wellington by Sarah the vicar's wife?!?
If you can scientifically explain how this may have come about we will duly reward you. The only theory we have managed to come up with was that perhaps during a small bonfire burn off in the vineyard the week before this un-used la bel was lifted into the atmosphere and deposited 332 kilometers away in Wellington.... mysterious to say the least.
If you have a strange story let us have it. You know we love it when you send us emails.
Eat well drink better
The show stopping team at Hatton Estate
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