A lovely breakfast on the deck at our Green House on the Hill B&B where our hosts Ruth and Jerry have created a little haven for Monarch butterflies (and their various stages of development) before spending the morning finishing off the Art Deco walking tour, just wandering along the streets in the sunshine in such an amiable town was so relaxing.
In the afternoon we took a wine tour around some of the Hawke’s Bay wineries. The tour we took was with a character named Vince who was both knowledgeable and amusing and he took us to four of the “boutique” wineries: Askerne Vineyards; Abbey Cellars; Salvare Estate; and, Unison Vineyard. By the end of the afternoon we had tasted 29 wines, all of them having their own wonderful characteristics but for us Unison was by far the best of the four and when we said that we thought their wines were the nearest we had tasted to French wines they took this as a great compliment – we subsequently discovered that Jancis Robinson rates it as one of the new great vineyards; what good taste she has! We bought some bottles to see us through the next few days as we intend to be doing some celebrating.
Too sozzled to drive anywhere for dinner so ordered a delivery pizza from Hell (yes that really is the name of the company), they answer the phone by saying ‘Welcome to Hell’ and the pizza comes in standard boxes with a twist, you can make the boxes into coffins ‘for your remains!’
We're still here and enjoying the blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's the 24th here but the 25th where you are so we just wanted to wish Chris a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Hope you celebrate in style. S,G,B&S xxxx
Can’t tell which end of the caterpillar is which – seems to have antennae on both ends. But a very handsome chap indeed.
ReplyDeleteCan I just clarify when you say you bought some bottles - was that one of each of the 29 you tasted?
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ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed your time in Hawkes Bay and your visit to Salvare.
We hoe to see you here again some time.
Steve
Missing you already!!! You left your coffin behind! It's raining!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure you'll have recovered from your drunken haze to read this(no, I'm not jealous).
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Chris. As Jack Lord would say "Book 'em Dano".
Hope you had a great birthday Chris. Sorry it's a bit late. The PC's was out of action yesterday as we are having new flooring fitted in the study and everything got moved out of the room. Sounds like you're having a great time. We enjoy reading your blog every day. Anne, Andy & Martin.
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