Country Life | 26 October 2018

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Another big win for local winemaker

Headline: Another big win for local winemaker Caption: Winning Karapiro winemaker Andy Anderson with the Takapoto Estate wines that have netted him unheard of back-to-back wins at the world’s most prestigious competition.

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Winning Karapiro winemaker Andy Anderson with the Takapoto Estate wines that have netted him unheard of back-toback wins at the world’s most prestigious competition. n See page 2 for the story

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Another big win for local winemaker

By Viv Posselt Karapiro winemaker Andy Anderson has good reason to feel jubilant over his latest win.

The London-based IWSC His meticulously-crafted 2014 competition is gruelling, a 50-year-old Takapoto Gibbston Valley Single competition dubbed by Andy as the Vineyard Pinot Noir vintage has won ‘Oscars of winemaking’. The judging the prestigious International Wine and process takes around seven months. A Spirit Competition (IWSC) – making it wine making it through to the trophythe world’s best Pinot Noir in 2018 and tasting stage will have been reviewed attracting widespread commendation four times by four different panels of for Takapoto Estate. judges; each of those entries undergoes It was a second win for the 49-yearchemical analysis to prove they are old winemaker and Takapoto’s owners what they say they are.

Mitch and Kate Plaw.

“It’s the most vigorous judging Last year, Andy took the same trophy process in the world, by far.” for his Takapoto Single Vineyard Last year, Andy described the win Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2012. That as taking the Takapoto brand “from win was significant in that it was the nowhere to the world stage”. Now, first competition Andy had entered, with back-to-back wins behind him, he and he won it with the first vintage of feels he has reached the pinnacle for that particular wine. It also extended any winemaker. a 12-year winning streak for New “I’m not sure how we’re going to top Zealand wines taking out the IWSC this,” he said last week.

World Pinot Noir trophy.

Wine has been part of Andy’s Adding another frisson of excitement world since his early teens, when his right now is the prospect that this father used to allow him to sample year’s wine might again win him the German Rieslings from his cellar. He IWSC New Zealand Producer of the graduated from Lincoln University’s Year Trophy. He won it for Takapoto first Bachelor of Viticulture and Estate in 2017 and is a 2018 finalist for Oenology programme in 1998, then the same award. “Every indication is worked in Australia’s Barossa Valley, that we’re well in the running for it Spain and London before returning to again this year – we’re very hopeful.”

Andy’s winning streak has elicited high praise from IWSC general manager Adam Lechmere. He said to win two golds and two trophies one year, and a trophy the next was a “huge endorsement, and proof that Andy Anderson is a winemaker of rare and consistent skill”.

Andy Anderson’s 2017 trophies – he will add to those soon with another win notched up for his 2018 Takapoto Estate competition entry.

New Zealand and opening Cambridge Fine Wines with his partner, Nikki Bockmann.

It was there, in 2011, that he met local businessman Mitch Plaw and his wife Kate. Their shared interest resulted in them planting five acres of grapes on the Plaw’s Horahora property. Andy made a couple of wines for them out of there, but the lure of Central Otago was strong, and subsequently saw him re-connect with a former university classmate and by then co-owner of Te Kauwhata’s Invivo Wines, Rob Cameron. They have been collaborating in the production process ever since.

So, while the grapes behind those award-winning vintages are grown in

Central Otago – the first at Legends Terrace Bannockburn, the second at Cox’s Vineyard Gibbston Valley – and Andy remains intimately involved in every process of the winemaking, from the vine to the oak, it is at Invivo Wines that the magic takes place.

Andy and Nikki, plus the Plaws, are headed to London to collect the awards early next month. There is a certain poignancy around this year’s win as Andy battles a cancer diagnosis that came through during the winter months.

But with characteristic optimism, he remains positive about his own future and that of his much-loved wines. “It’s a case of ‘watch this space’ … I know there are wonderful plans in place.”

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Equidays an equine extravaganza Visitors to Equidays at Mystery Creek were treated to three days of educational clinics and seminars, inspirational competitions and exhibits, and entertaining Nightshows and demonstrations.

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Making the most of the weekend were the Demo Riders and the Fiber Fresh Youth Camp participants who came from around the country. Participants benefited from a specially designed educational programme and they made the most of the experts and their handson teaching in one-on-one clinics.

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By night, crowds were entertained by the mesmerising Nightshows featuring some of the country’s best showjumpers and entertainers as well as well-known international acts and up-and-coming talent.

Friday nights Showjumping Spectacular with the Nettex Slalom provided edge-of-your-seat racing followed by the Wade Equine Coaches Horse Grand Prix showcasing the thrilling sport of showjumping which was heightened by the atmosphere of the indoor arena.

Saturday night saw an Equitainment Extravaganza featuring brilliant performances from well-known equine entertainers and was hosted by Australian duo the CrackUp sisters.

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The Sunday matinee featured six performances from the next generation of New Zealand’s equine entertainers.

In the amateur category was Jessica and Alison Brunton winning with their ‘Looney Tunes’ performance. Next the crowd was treated to performances from the professionals with Russell Higgins and his Brumby Farm Boys taking out the win for their routine to the soundtrack of ‘Sexy and I know it’.

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Rodeo report released A report into animal welfare at rodeos was released last week, expected to lead to improvements in the treatment of animals in the upcoming rodeo season.

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC), the independent committee that advises the Minister responsible for animal welfare, released the report along with advice to the Minister with recommendations to improve conditions.

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC), the independent committee that advises the Minister responsible for Animal Welfare, has today released a report on animal welfare in rodeos, together with advice to the Minister making recommendations to improve the welfare of the animals in rodeos.

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NAWAC utilised an expert panel and a structured assessment process to evaluate the animal welfare impacts of the seven rodeo events as listed in its existing code of welfare for rodeos.

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one of the significant recommendations in the report is for the establishment of a new rodeo animal welfare committee, which would include key stakeholders from inside and outside the rodeo community, collaborating to improve the welfare of the animals in rodeos.

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Gardening gene helps in planning festival on their garden, Jan dovetailed her teaching job with soaking up as much knowledge as possible about growing things here. When she retired, she joined the Cambridge Garden Club, rising eventually to take the role of president.

Each changing season has been scrupulously documented, and as she opened her garden to visitors, so she added details of those visiting groups to the files. It helps her plan, she explained, and allows her to track the progress of her plants as they thrive or otherwise in any given spot.

All of which has helped immensely in planning this garden festival. “The planning has been very important – time has been spent visiting the gardens, particularly those that are opening to the public for the first time,” she said. “It’s going to be a wonderful festival … the 10 gardens are all so different.” n Visit www.cgf.nz for festival details.

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Jan Mathers was the perfect pick to help select properties to be featured in the November 18 inaugural Cambridge Garden Festival.

Her own garden is in the line-up. It’s a picturesque sprawl of colour and texture, filled with all sorts of quirky surprises, secret corners and delights – a place that easily validates her own ‘gardening chops’. It’s also a fragrant comment on her own journey, one that more than suggests a gardening gene in her DNA and speaks to the fastidious approach she has in documenting each step of that journey.

Carey Church, who is organising the event as a fundraiser for the Cambridge Rotary Club, said Jan’s is one of “10 very different gardens” featuring in the festival. She’s delighted at ticket sales to date and is keen to keep flying the festival flag.

“Three are new gardens – I’ve just written a blog post on a garden transformation, and we profiled our two new gardens in St Kilda,” she said, referencing the regularly-updated festival website. “I’m thrilled at the interest, especially given that this is our first year. And it’s worth remembering that all proceeds from the festival go to charity.”

Recipients will be Cambridge Community REPAYMENTS House, Victim Support and the Rotary Club of FOR 12 MONTHS Cambridge.

News of the festival cameREPAYMENTS out several months FOR 12 MONTHS ago. Carey said well over half the 1000 tickets are sold, as are three-quarters of the tickets for an ‘optional extra’ behind-the-scenes tour of Lilies by Blewden.

Jan, meanwhile, is beavering away daily to put the finishing touches on her own patch.

Her great-grandfather started the genetic ball rolling … he was an early Birkdale pioneer who established orchids and grew tomatoes and apples commercially and her grandparents, the Levesques, became adept gardeners in this neck of the woods. There are also seed-merchants in her backstory. Much of it then was, of course, about swelling pantries with home-grown produce. That still happens in the Mathers’ garden – but the produce side of it comes at the hands of Jan’s Canadian-born husband Bill. She met and married him while on her “OE” from New Zealand many years ago.

“Gardening in Canada was very different to what it is in New Zealand. I had a lot of learning to do that’s for sure,” she said. “We had vastly different seasons, and the deer … they’d wander through at their leisure, eating any new plant I’d put in. It was very frustrating.”

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Bottom Left: One of Jan’s many dogwoods in bloom.

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2012 YAMAHA YZ250F: Good cond, top end rebuild 28hrs ago, new linkage bearings & lower shock bush, Psychic brake lever with brake snake, Pro Taper bars, GYTR unbreakable levers, blue bling.

2014 HONDA CRF125: Good cond, small wheel model, new front tyre, electric & kick start, 5 speed manual trans & clutch, 4 stroke, just serviced.

$4,495

$9,495

2018 YAMAHA YZ250F: Very tidy Limited Edition model, plastics brand new (just refitted), comes with the original seat cover, just 25hrs from new, Pirelli tyres, KYB susp, reverse cylinder 4 stroke, 5 speed.

2012 YAMAHA YZ125: almost brand new, only 5kms, limited ed graphics, fat bars, psychic clutch & brake lever, fmf fatty expansion & shorty muffler, good tyres, barkbuster jet handguards, ready to race.

Finance available to approved purchasers. Ask us about flexible terms and options, so we can provide a quote specific to you.

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