Durvillea Wines

A new wine label from Marlborough, New Zealand

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South Australia and a lovely review

August 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · durvillea, simon, the girls

One of the obvious side effects of your parents being in the wine industry is that you always live in a wine region! We have lived in Marlborough since 1995 but all we three girls were born in different regions. Before Blenheim we lived in Gisborne where Arabella was born in 1990, Libby was born [...]

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Food and family

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · durvillea, family, recipe

Last weekend was a big one for the Waghorn family. Simon turned 50 and we threw him a big party at Astrolabe Farm. Sadly, none of us took many pictures but hopefully some that my aunt Nicki took will surface soon. A great time was had by all – particular highlight for me was watching [...]

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Who's that girl? Introducing Libby!

August 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · about, libby, who's that girl?

The third ‘Who’s that girl?’ interview in an occasional series – questions and write up from Meg.
Born in Te Kauwhata/Huntly in 1987 Libby is the middle daughter in the Forrest-Waghorn family. Now living in Australia she represents the Queensland ‘branch’ of Durvillea. You’ll hear from Libby on our facebook page, this blog and she tweets [...]

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Who's that girl? Introducing Sophie!

August 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments · about, durvillea, family, meg, sophie, who's that girl?

Sophie McLernon is officially the ‘Client Relationship Manager’ at Astrolabe Wines. More importantly to us she is also our cousin. Sophie is behind a lot of the tweets from @durvilleawines on Twitter. So that people could put a face to her tweets and facebook messages I (Meg) emailed her a few questions:
What is your [...]

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