Sophie is off gallivanting around Asia and Jane has her hands full with Astrolabe farm and holding the fort at the office so I thought I would dash off a little blog post to keep everyone up to date.
Last weekend Sophie came up to Wellington to do two tastings at Thorndon New World with me. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'meg'
Pinot Grigio, Pinafores and Quince Jelly (again)
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · astrolabe farm, food, meg, sophie, wellington
Tags:astrolabe farm·bicycles·green efforts·meg·Pinot Grigio·quince jelly·sophie·supermarkets·thorndon new world·wellington
Easter Eggs and Pinot Noir
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, meg, vintage
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 [...]
Tags:2010 Marlborough vintage·arabella·astrolabe farm·chickens·Easter·family·marlborough·meg·pinot noir·vintage·viticulture
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
Who's that girl? Introducing Meg!
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments · family, meg, the girls, who's that girl?
The fourth ‘Who’s that girl?’ interview in an occasional series – questions from Libby this time.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1985 Meg is the eldest daughter in the Forrest-Waghorn family.
Where do you fit within the Durvillea family?: Well, I’m the eldest of the Forrest-Waghorn girls. In terms of Durvillea I’ve mainly been in [...]
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?
Behind the scenes…
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · the girls, wellington
Today we had a photo shoot in Wellington with all three girls and Jane – so we have a few nice pictures of us all together. The last group photos of the four of us are from Libby’s 21st & we are all dressed as Cowboys and Indians so it will be nice to have [...]
Harvest '09
June 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · astrolabe farm, harvest, vintage
Claire & Arabella
Looking back towards our house from the vineyard
Here are a few pics from this year’s vintage. Picking the Pinot Noir at Astrolabe Farm this day were Jane, Bella & Meg. We also had much appreciated help from our cousin Claire and her partner David.
It was a great Marlborough day that day. [...]
Tags:arabella·astrolabe farm·claire·jane·meg·pinot noir·vintage
Who is this?
June 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · about, astrolabe farm, durvillea, family
Durvillea is a ‘little sister’ wine for established label Astrolabe Wines. It’s made by Astrolabe’s winemaker Simon Waghorn. Taking responsibility for the wine after Simon’s actually made it are his wife Jane, and three daughters Meg, Libby and Arabella – with lots of help from the Astrolabe team. This is a great chance for all [...]
