GROWING YOUNG MINDS WORDS VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN
When I was at school there was a lot of pressure to decide what you wanted to do when you grew up, yet very little to help you decide. The closest we got to real life lessons where theory in class could be put into practice was with the Young Enterprise programme. I think suggesting we make wine would have been a tough one to swallow for my economics teacher! PAGE 48 | WWW.NOURISHMAGAZINE.CO.NZ
This though is exactly what students at St Peter’s Cambridge have done, releasing their first vintages, 2020 Blue Ruru Pinot Gris and Rosé earlier this year. Work on the wine began over five years ago with a student keen to learn more about viticulture. The question was asked, why on the schools 113 hectare working farm was there no grapes? It has cows, bees, lavender, corn … Why indeed was the response. One-hundred and sixty vines were kindly donated from the Thorp Family of Sunrise Nurseries in Gisborne and planted over .1 of a hectare, making up the school’s
