The essential good of hanging around in bars & restaurants In the course of taking our little wine piggies to market, we have occasion to interact with hospitality venues and players. In a small way, we peek behind their curtain. There is an understanding between wine and hospitality that we are tied to similar fates. Dog meets dog. Offered here as an example of the experimentation third places afford! And to show, lest I’m accused of posturing, that I have no pride to defend. From memory,...

Between Monty Python, Rene Descartes and the vineyard, an immaculate truth is made plain on what it is to be human. And, a Lion has stepped forward to challenge the monkey driving us to oblivion. Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash A New Crusade Events constantly overtake. They have in the development of Drunken Monkeys Theory (DMT), started in We’re All a Bunch of Drunken Monkeys. A light-hearted but no less meaningful argument I intended to develop two points from: the concept of the clearing....

Living in Wellington before we were married, we talked about having land in the Wairarapa. Not to make wine on. That would be crazy. Neither of us had experience, knowledge, family winemaking pedigree or close friends in the wine folly. Making wine wasn’t even a dream, the prospect being so remote. Wine was something other people made. People who seemed to us to have been born with sacred wine knowledge! We loved the wild open landscapes and skies of the Wairarapa. The sweep of Palliser Bay...