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Featured Winery
This month we are heading south again, to visit Wet Jacket Wines, a small, NZ owned brand in Central Otago, the brainchild of Central […]
Featured Winery March 2026 – Wet Jacket Wines, Central Otago
This month, we’re heading to Northland, the far north of New Zealand, to visit the Dancing Petrel Vineyard, situated on Paewhenua Island, overlooking the […]
Featured Winery February 2026 – Dancing Petrel Vineyard, Northland
To kick off the New Year we are visiting Te Whare Ra (TWR), a small vineyard and winery located in the Marlborough sub-region of […]
Featured Winery January 2026 – Te Whare Ra (TWR)
This month we head to the south of Marlborough, slightly inland from Kaikoura, to visit the Esses Wine Company, a premium grower-producer creating sophisticated, […]
Featured Winery, December 2025 – Esses Wine Company, Kaikoura
This month we are staying in Marlborough and visiting Ripple Effect Wines, a tiny family project on a one hectare, hillside, dry-farmed block in […]
Featured Winery, November 2025 – Ripple Effect Wines, Marlborough
Ataahua Wines is a small-batch wine producer, led by Stephanie Henderson-Grant. Stephanie and her family have been involved in growing grapes and making wine […]
Featured Winery September 2025 – Ataahua Wines, Waipara, North Canterbury
A couple of years ago I attended a wine tasting here in New Plymouth, with Terry Horn, one of the owners of the Unison […]
Featured Winery, August 2025 – Unison Vineyard, Hawke’s Bay
Over the last couple of months, I have been tasting my way through the Misha’s Vineyard portfolio, and I have to say they have […]
Featured Winery July 2025 – Misha’s Vineyard, Central Otago
This month, we head back up to Kumeu near Auckland, to visit Soljans Estate Winery. Family owned and operated since 1937, The Soljan family […]
Featured Winery March 2025 – Soljans Estate Winery, Auckland
This month we are visiting Q Wine, situated in the Waitaki wine region. In Waitaki, the vineyards stretch along a 75 kilometre strip, from […]
Featured Winery February 2025 – Q Wine, Waitaki
This month we head to Christchurch where nestled on the rocky slopes of the Port Hills, overlooking the city, there is a vineyard. Situated […]
Featured Winery February 2024 – Tussock Hill Vineyard
We all know that there’s Art and there’s Wine: Dancing Water is all about the “Art of Beautiful Wine” and is our Featured Winery […]