Church Road Winery Napier

We arrived in Napier last night, the Art Deco capital of the world. If you want to know what a backpackers' hostel looks like in a living museum of a town, I attached a photo. This hostel used to be a high-end luxury hotel, and for reasons we never quite figured out, it became a hostel. And a rather noisy and strange one at that- its unisex showers …

... for lunch as we wanted to eat there today but it was booked out. We then made our way down the road to Church Road Winery and enjoyed tasting several types of wine there. We particularly enjoyed Viognier. We then were quite hungry and returned to ...

... at him whilst he talked solely to Dan, hmmm). From here, it was getting towards closing time so we visited the Church Road winery, where a NZ Pat Butcher lookalike with the manner and earrings to match served us up some NZ delights. Bek had assured ...

... Winery is a goth establishment which only harvests black grapes and keeps all the curtains closed in the main house. Perhaps not. The Church Road Winery was a lot more welcoming, what with it actually being arsed to run a tour of their company. Di, an ...

... tea. Its now Day 2 in Napier and after a quick trip up the mount to see the view from the Mount, we went to the Church Road Winery, hopefully to taste the excellent Pinot Gris but to our chagrin, they had run out but we enjoyed a quick taster of Sauvinon ...

... supermarket back home!) we also tried a few reds, Malbecs, Pinot Noirs and one which you can only get at Church Road Winery in New Zealand, but I can't remember its name!! After quite a few glasses of wine and several kilometres my ...

... on bicycle (25 km). I felt like my three years in Japan on a bike were training for this! Our first stop was Church Road winery. The woman who runs this place is absolutely fantastic and gave us so much information on tasting wine. We did four whites ...

... there.  They are a boutique and sell only from their winery or by direct contract to northern Europe. Next stop is Church Road winery, which to me is like the Berringer of New Zealand.  They are huge compared to Brookfields.  They have ...

... sunny days I've had here, so the sunlight sparkled over the vines making them look particularly ripe and bountiful. I headed to the Church Road Winery next door in the hope I'd have more luck and, thankfully, I did for they were running one tour a day ...

... jest stolica wina Nowej Zelandi, wiec wyb ralismy sie na wycieczke do winiarni i na degustacje wina do "Church Road Winery". W starych piwnicach, w ktorych niegdys lezakowalo wino znajduje sie muzeum. Po zwiedzeniu muzeum i zdobyciu wiedzy o wyrobie ...

... have a glass of wine to make up for missing the wine tasting! In the evening we had tickets to see Jack Johnson at Church Road Winery. We're getting the hang of these outdoor concerts now. Everyone is very civilised, and either have picnic blankets or ...