We hope everyone had a good easter break!
It has been a busy easter weekend here at Astrolabe Farm. Arabella is home for the university mid-term break and Meg arrived home on Good Friday. We got straight into some chores – waterblasting, mowing, harvesting the quince and picking up walnuts. This was all in preparation for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'marlborough'
Easter Eggs and Pinot Noir
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, meg, vintage
Tags:2010 Marlborough vintage·arabella·astrolabe farm·chickens·Easter·family·marlborough·meg·pinot noir·vintage·viticulture
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:childhood·durvillea·marlborough·meg·sophie·who's that girl?
