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Winner of the third July competition

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Six people entered our most memorable meal with Sauvignon Blanc competition this week! The lucky winner was drawn this morning and was Lynette Woodgate. Lynette’s best meal with Sauvignon Blanc, was a Poule A Pot (chicken in a pot) meal that she had at a french bistro in Akaroa many years back, divine! If you can email me your address Lynette and I will get this wine off to you today- sophie@durvilleawines.co.nz

Do you want a chance to win to win a 6 pack of Durvillea Wine too? This week, as it is our last Durvillea competition for the month, we want to give you all a chance to win! All we want you to do is Tell us is when you last had a glass or bottle of Durvillea wine. Easy! Just comment below on this blog when you last had our wine (you can tell us where, who with or what with if you want), and you’re in the draw to win 6 bottles of Durvillea wine next Wednesday.

Terms and Condition to Enter:
* Must be over 18
* Comments must be posted on this blog, not our facebook or twitter accounts
* Only those in New Zealand and Australia are eligible for this competition
* One person’s comment a week will be picked Wednesday mornings each week for the whole of July by the team in the office and that lucky person will win a mixed 6pack of Durvillea wines

On another note, Jane has another blog coming this week, so look out for what has been going on down on the farm later this week!

Sophie’s Wrap Up and a new Competition

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We are only three days into the week and it already feels like so much has happened that we should be at the end!

 I am into my third week being back in the office after three weeks away in South East Asia, I had a fabulous time starting at the top of Laos and travelling right down to the bottom and then into Cambodia. They are both amazing countries, and I recommend it to anyone thinking of visiting either of these places, the scenery, people and food are all incredible!

Durvillea Girl at Angkor Wat, Cambodia

While I was away Jane covered for me, it seems we had a lot of exports and other things going on, so she was rather busy by the sounds of things, she did a great job, and I am very grateful to her!

A few things have happened for Durvillea in the last few weeks. One is that all three Durvillea Wines are now available up at Mt Hutt Ski Field, so you can now enjoy a glass of Durvillea up the mountain.

 The second thing is that we had a great review from Yvonne Lorkin for both our Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio. She named our 2008 Sauvignon Blanc as wine of the week a couple of weeks ago on her National radio show, and then last Friday  mentioned that our 2009 Pinot Grigio was “possibly one of the best Pinot Gris I have ever tried” (http://bit.ly/d57THw)

 The third thing was that as we started to get organised for another promotion on facebook we had it pointed out to us by a kind twitter follower that there are in fact Facebook guidelines against the sort of promotion we were planning to run, which was a bit of a surprise to us! For more information on these guidelines visit http://bit.ly/93IFYq  With social marketing, things are always changing and evolving and since these guidelines have been set in place by Facebook, we are going to follow them.

 We are still running our July competition though, it is just in a different format now! All competitions will be run on this blog and you can enter them now by commenting on this blog post. We will give you four chances to win, and the best comment each week will win a mixed three pack of Durvillea Wine. The weekly winner will be decided on a Wednesday morning.

As we are in the middle of winter, and our Pinot Noir seems to be flying out the door.
We want you to tell us your favourite way to enjoy a glass of Pinot Noir (comment below on this blog). If you have any questions please email me at sophie@durvilleawines.co.nz  Otherwise we look forward to your comments and the first winner will be drawn Wednesday 8th July.

Terms and Condition to Enter:
* Must be over 18
* Comments must be posted on this blog, not our facebook or twitter accounts
* Only those in New Zealand and Australia are eligible for this compeition
* One person’s comment a week will be picked Wednesday mornings each week for the whole of July by the team in the office and that lucky person will win a mixed 3pack of Durvillea wines

Sophie’s Wrap Up

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I can’t believe we are half way through April- what a busy month! I have just been on the phone to our Viticulturist and he tells me we are about 80% done for the 2010 harvest. Most of the Wairau and Awatere Valleys have been picked, apart from few blocks of Sauvignon that are being done tonight and tomorrow, and a few blocks of Pinot Noir. After that, there is only the Kekerengu Coast to go.

It feels like this harvest has gone very quickly! For me in the office, vintage time is not too different to a normal day, except there is slightly more paperwork to check off. This year we tried to keep our face book site live with what was going on daily during our harvest. I have enjoyed this and so have Jeremy and Tim, with both of them sending in their photos when they had a chance.

It has been a brilliant vintage, with great weather and picking conditions, now the juice is in tanks and barrels fermenting away and Simon is already saying he is excited about this vintage, and that the flavour profiles are looking good.

This month we have also been holding another competition on our facebook site (www.facebook.com/durvilleawines), this has been a food and wine matching one. We have been asking people to post their favourites recipe and Durvillea wine to match it with and they have won a cook book and gone in to win 6 bottles of wine weekly, this has been one of my favourites competitions we have done, as I love to cook, and it has been great to get new some new ideas and recipes to try out!

As Jane talked about in her last blog, Bella has been home recently, so on Thursday and Friday we went down to Blenheim New World and did a couple of tastings, these went really well, and people seemed very interested in the three wines, in particular the Pinot Grigio and Pinot Noir. (The Pinot Grigio was recieved so well is now available at the Blenheim New World, for those who have been looking to try it!) We have also booked in to do one in Wellington next month!

I have also had to start getting myself very organised the last couple of weeks as I am off to Canada for work on Friday, this is for three tradeshows and to meet with our distributors. The trade shows are in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa, and will all be fabulous events. We have been talking with our agents in Toronto about bringing Durvillea into the market, so at the Toronto and Ottawa shows we are showing Durvillea which is very exciting!

However with the trip now so close there is a lot to get done before hand! Hopefully Jane and I will be able to write another blog while we are over there.

PS. An update on my Saint Clair half marathon training, the last few weeks haven’t been going so well, and running seems to be getting harder, not a good thing! It was 3 weeks till the race on Saturday, and they say the week before you should taper off beforehand. This leaves me 2 weeks, in which apparently a 17km should be done- this I am even more worried about. However, I have got my training guide to stick to, and Jane has made sure all our hotels have gyms in them, so fingers crossed I will be able to make it through the race. Any helpful hints/tips would much much appreciated guys!!