With ten fantastic entries for how to enjoy Pinot Noir, we all found it too hard to decide on a winner! So we ended up picking it out of a hat this morning. The winner of the first July competition for the “Best way to enjoy Pinot Noir” is Kate Fisher. Kate Fisher likes to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pinot Grigio'
Winner of the first July Durvillea Competition
July 7th, 2010 · 6 Comments · durvillea, food, recipe
Tags:competition·Pinot Grigio·pinot grigio food matches·win wine
Pinot Grigio, Pinafores and Quince Jelly (again)
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · astrolabe farm, food, meg, sophie, wellington
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. [...]
Tags:astrolabe farm·bicycles·green efforts·meg·Pinot Grigio·quince jelly·sophie·supermarkets·thorndon new world·wellington
Fettuccine, prawns and prosciutto
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Dean Betts, durvillea, recipe, sophie
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 [...]
Tags:Dean Betts·Pinot Grigio·prawn fettuccine·recipe·seafood
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
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 [...]
Tags:Antartica·Blue Gold and Top 100·christmas·l'Astrolabe·Pinot Grigio·pinot noir·SIWC competition·Wineworks
