Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Cork cage. Photo by Peter Burka. As I continue my sparkling wine learning journey, I’ve reached the final stage: sealing the bottle. After riddling and disgorging comes the closure – the cork and wire cage that holds in all that fizz and flavour. It’s easy to take for granted, but the way sparkling wine is…
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A Year on the farm The non-winemaking life of a working vineyard Wine might be what fills the bottle, but farming is what fills the year. At Panacea Estate, the work doesn’t stop when the grapes are picked or the barrels are stacked. That’s only part of the story. Behind the scenes, this is a…
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Rakaia (foreground) and Nicole (background) managing the spinning Wheel and prizes. Set under the canopy of sprawling old oak trees, the Taradale Mineral Springs Festival was a lovely place to pull up a picnic rug or hay bale, listen to all-day music and enjoy a variety of tempting food and beverages. With a ring of…
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Bacchus. After lots of thoughts recently on the future of Panacea Estate, I started to think of the past and what wine has been through the ages and may be going forward. Wine has always been more than a drink—it’s a witness to history. It’s been raised in toasts, spilled in rituals, offered to gods,…
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