Broomfield Garden Cottages & Homestay Blenheim

... acid-sweetness. Good length.

2007 C******nay – 10 months French oak, 30% new, full malo. Toasty oats on the nose, pineapple too. Good balance, quite creamy, peach fruit.

2007 Pinot Noir – Very clear and bright, medium intensity. Sweet dark fruit (clay soils), dark cherry, herby nose. Rich, full palette, good balance and length.

2001 Noble Riesling – Rich, bold, intense honey with ...

... it, I'll save that much after 15 nights) and let's you call hostels at a very cheap rate (four cents a minute) using $20 included on the card you get. There is also a directory of hostels for all over New Zealand, which is where I found the one I am at now. It was the lowest rated out of all Blenheim, but I was lured by prospects of free Internet. If I'm going to be staying here a few weeks working, however, I want a place better than this one, so I'm moving to the highest rated ...

... Didnt forget to take a photo of Split Apple rock. After an exhausting day decided to stay another night at Motueku.It was a spacious campsite with lovely trees. Found a local wine called Northwood, thought it was worth a try! And it was my birthday today, and thanks for all my lovely e cards. I celebrated with a mussel burger! geoff had fish and chips. Next day , off again this time through Nelson, just a stop for coffee and pie ...

... beginning to wobble a bit on the aul bikes so we wisely finished up at Villa Maria and took the wine and bikes back to base. We cooked up a storm back at the safety of our wee van and enjoyed a couple more glasses of wine. It was a great way to spend our last night in our brilliant van. Although Murph has taken her fair share of bumps on the noggin in the confined vestibule of our little Hi-Ace, I think even she will miss it. We ...

... chatting the odd time to a guy next to me (for the life of me I cant remember his name right now!) Anyway, we were chatting about what I was doing, where I was going etc etc. I found out he was from Wanaka on the South Island. He had been up to Auckland to see his cousin and then he hired a rental car,drove down to Wellington to get the ferry and was renting a car at Picton to drive to Christchurch (all in 1 day!!) So he ...

... Wetter (die Vorhersage fuer die naechsten fuenf Tage ist gut). Dann werde ich wohl nochmal zurueck nach Wellington muessen (so denn mein Fuehrungszeugnis bis dahin eingetroffen ist) und mein Work Visa abholen, bevor ich dann hoffentlich nach Sueden komme. Hier in Neuseeland sind am 8.11 ja Wahlen, es kommt wohl zu einem Regierungswechsel hier ...

... amazing people over here, many of whom I know I will keep in touch with. Now everyone is leaving for travel or for home and the weather is getting colder so I feel it is time for me to leave as well. I head home to Portland next week. I am looking forward to going home, but at the same time I know I will wish I was still in New Zealand after about a week . . . well, maybe not, it is getting awfully cold here.

... with all the family and friends and the many animals about the place. They've got a slew of pig hunting dogs in kennels. Even have a wild NZ pig Al caught, in an electric fence pen in the field, by the name of Boris. They've opened their home to me, shared two great meals tonight and last night(and many a glass of great local wine--Jo works in the lab and brings home all sorts ...

... one. We pull up to find only 3 people fishing. Very odd for such a nice day - even with the cold water, there would be many people on the beach on a lovely Saturday back home. We wander the length of it, and then get back in the car for the run up the coast to Kaikoura. We have some more hills to get over before we are actually driving at the edge of the ocean. We see a travel trailer wrapped around a bridge abutment, our first and only accident of the whole trip. The car was in the ...

Wellington - Picton Every account of this journey that I had read or heard before coming to New Zealand said that this was the worst ferry trip in the world and that it was awful and the Cook Straight was dead rough - then on Tuesday I met people that had done it after that big storm I mentioned, and they said they thought they were going to die and ...