After Jane’s post yesterday I had a flick through Jason’s copy of The Fish Market, this is a fabulous recipe book, and after photocopying many of the recipes I decided on one to cook for dinner last night. Pg 148 for those of you who own the book.
2 Tbsp Olive oil (Jane’s olive oil)
1 Tbsp [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sophie'
Fettuccine, prawns and prosciutto
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Dean Betts, durvillea, recipe, sophie
Crafty work down on the farm.
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Dean Betts, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, marlborough wine and food festival, recipe, sophie, the girls, vintage
The approaching harvest of the grapes is beginning to dominate life. Nick has been working hard in the vineyard cutting out green fruit and putting on nets. There is a rising sense of anticipation. We are beginning to watch the weather carefully and notice the cooler nights. So far so good.
As well as the grapes, the [...]
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Marlborough Wine and Food Festival
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · durvillea, jane, meg, sophie
I have been down in Blenheim this weekend for the annual Marlborough Wine and Food Festival. We had a really good day on Saturday, the festival day. This year we had two tent sites side by side, one each for Astrolabe and Durvillea. Manning the Durvillea tent were Arabella, Jane, one of our Waghorn cousins [...]
Tags:festival·marlborough wine and food festival·meg·Pinot Grigio
Sophies Wrap Up- Leslie Sbrocco and Wine and Food Festival preparation
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · family, jane, meg, sophie
Two days to go until the 2010 Marlborough Wine and Food festival and things are very busy around here. The wine has been ordered, and will (fingers crossed) be delivered to the event tomorrow afternoon. Jane is at home sewing pinnys- a wee preview of one below, she is also organising the table cloths,the material [...]
Tags:leslie sbrocco·marlborough wine and food festival·saint clair half marathon
Sounday Competition
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · On the road, durvillea, jane, sophie
After a fantastic Sounday concert on Saturday at Hagley Park, we are running a competition from all the photos we took of people drinking Durvillea wine. Go to our face book page, vote for your favourite photo of the day by “liking” it and the photos with the most “likes” on Friday 5th February will win [...]
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · durvillea, jane, sophie
Three weeks ago I decided to sign up for the Saint Clair vineyard half marathon (for those of you reading this who want to do the run aswell, go to www.vineyardhalf.com). While I used to be quite fit back at school, I haven’t really run since, and it is an effort for me to run 3km, a half [...]
Tags:marlborough·marlborough wine and food festival·saint clair half marathon·sounday
My Mum’s Salsa Verde Recipe
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · durvillea, family, recipe, sophie
This is my mum’s Salsa Verde recipe, but it actually originates from an Annabel Langbein recipe, all of us have many of her recipe books and she is a bit of a favourite in our family.
This is a summer staple for your fridge and is great with beef on the barbeque, baked salmon, bean salad [...]
Back on board
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · family, sophie, the girls
After 10 days away from the office, it has been rather hard to get back into the swing of things. Christmas was spent in Christchurch with my family, the Forrest Waghorns and my other cousins on my Dad’s side the McLernons. It was a beautiful day so Christmas lunch was spent outside on the lawn [...]
Tags:antarctica·christmas·durvillea girls·family·Gisborne·moby·rhythm and vines 2010·six60
Heading towards Christmas
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · durvillea, family, sophie
While Jane, Simon and the girls have been over in Ireland for the past two weeks I have been holding the fort back in the office, and things have been hectic. As always at this time of year, the orders start to come in strong and fast, and we try our hardest to make sure [...]
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · astrolabe farm, durvillea, family, sophie, vintage
This week I have been manning the office alone as Simon, Jane and Jason have been in Shanghai for a trade show. Jason is now his way home, while Jane and Simon are en route to Ireland, where they are to be joined by the girls to launch Durvillea Wines next week.
However, being the only [...]
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