Business Update: Compliance and Licensing Progress

We started the application process for our alcohol license back in February thinking it would only take a couple of months, based on our in-depth research and conversations.  Turns out, that wasn’t quite the way things worked out.  Despite not owning a winery or planning to sell our wine through a physical tasting room, we…

Most images of a winemaker sipping vino in front of a vineyard are beautiful, but not realistic. Most of the time, the vineyard they’re on is not theirs – and that’s *ok*  Diana chats about what that photo symbolizes and why it’s unattainable for those first starting out and why she decided to press on…

Frank kayaked 40 minutes out from the main beach at Onetangi to take in the scenery and get allllll this trash (or as they say here, rubbish). Out-of-the-way beaches always have tons of stuff washed up on their shores because they aren’t visited very often. So whenever we go, we try to grab as much…

Midwest native, Aotearoa NZ resident, stoat whisperer, and Responsible Hedonist’s mischief coordinator.

What date and time is best for us to get together and do a Patron only, live, 45 minute “What is Wine?!” event?

In our last video, we talked about how we’ve decided to export our wines into the USA and why that decision made sense from an environmental, financial, and long-term perspective. This video details the other factors that also went into our decision to make wine in 2022 vs. this year.  In short, we weren’t going…