The effects of Cyclone Gabrielle have left many in North Island wine communities at a loss, with the destruction and devastation of homes, vineyards and wineries.
Summer 2023 will live long in the memories of growers and wineries in the North Island, with record rainfall in several regions making for a very challenging season.
Going, going, gone. It's perhaps an apt phrase for some of those amid the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle in February, such as Philip Barber of Petane as he watched his steel tractor shed rip apart and its tractors float away.
OPINION: Flicking through the fourth edition of the Oxford Companion to Wine (OCW) I came across a word that neither I nor my spell-checker were familiar with.