Across the country, the 2024 vintage has been hailed as one of the best in recent memory. Some truly special wines emerged from this year. Home Fields’ Reserve Pinot Noir was so exceptional that owners Caroline and Brent Eddy felt it deserved something extraordinary for its label. Thanks to circumstance, social media, and a bit of “vibe filtering,” they found the perfect collaboration with brilliant UK artist @autistic_ian. The Art of Blending “When it came to blending wine from the 2024...

As Anzac Day approaches, reflection, remembrance & resolve are top of mind This reflection is personal and important. It touches on questions of deep individual and social values. And our family. It also rejoins themes lightly raised in Drunken Monkeys regarding the fundamentally self-interested nature of the primate ergo human mind. Anzac season also evokes the gnawing question that I think most of us have had at some point in our lives: how do men go to war? A free range child engaged in...

Our Wine Tūrangawaewae - Something Worth Burning Your Ships For Relocating a small family from a comfortable city life to the countryside to make wine is no casual decision. The day we traveled down country will forever be etched in my memory. Four of us were vacuum-sealed into Caroline’s Volvo. We were exhausted from the final house clean, while the girls, still in their school uniforms, were part excitement—loving a family road trip—and part furious, dislocated from friends and routines. We...