Karere House
Travel Blogs from Blenheim
July 27th and some added days somewhere
July 27th Or maybe not? I don't know were my dates got wrong but they did somehow. We stayed in Wellington for two nights and then left on the ferry for Picton. the day we left it was cloudy and there had been severe weather warnings. A big storm was coming so we didn't know when we would be able to leave Wellington. But we did leave on the day we …
Yippee - Marlborough wine tasting!
... stage of wine tasting, after a further two vineyards and 12 more wines I was getting the hang of the descriptions, sort of. I liked them all, it's wine isn’t it?!!!, back to camp site to sleep it off.
Really enjoyed Yealands vineyard, just south of Blenheim, because after tasting they invite you to drive around the estate which has fantastic views of the coast.
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EARTHQUAKE!!
... so big it was enough for all of us to get in four extra helpings! This is too much food even for garbage guts Stevo!!
With a nice meal enjoyed by all, it was onto the drinking games. First we played F### the Dealer, when it was my turn to deal I lost a few games and my bottle of bourbon and coke was gone very quickly! I felt bloated really quickly! I am never plying drinking games with coke ever again! Felt terrible for half an hour, but once I got rid ...
Confessions of the wine industry
... blanc or pinot noir. The winery had a few different jobs we needed to do. The most exciting was plunging. Red wine ferments with the skins and pips, which provide colour, flavour, and tannins. The skins and pips float to the top of the fermenting tank though, so someone needs to manually push them down so that the wine can wash over them and absorb their goods. You climb a ladder up to the top ...
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