Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine Summer 2013

WAIRARAPA ISSN 1178-4806

Lifestyle

SUMMER 2012-13 ISSUE #28

Featherston & Coast • Martinborough • Greytown • Carterton • Gladstone • Masterton & Coast

Life and Leisure in the Wairarapa

FEATURING SUMMER Festivals, Concerts & Events • Taste of Summer - a Dining Guide • Wine & Olive Oil Directory

• People Profiles plus lots more...

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n early spring voyage to Europe was the perfect antidote to the winter blues. It was fantastic to catch up with family and friends, see amazing art and architecture, taste incredible food and wine. But it was on the return journey, driving over the Rimutakas and rounding that special corner where the entire valley comes into view, that reinforced how lucky we are to live here. So much space and fresh air, no traffic jams and most important, the ability to park your car directly outside the place you are going to.

With the arrival of summer there is a very busy calendar of events to suit any taste, so be sure to check out the Events Section and come to the Wairarapa and enjoy the many things going on, as well as the superb wine and food available.

Congratulations to Jared Gulian from Moon over Martinborough, who has landed a book deal with Random House (see page 35). Jared writes for the magazine and has a blog about life on their tiny olive farm. He and his partner are both American city boys, who somehow ended up living in rural Wairarapa with an olive grove. Yet again another example of the diverse talents and skills of people living in our special region.

My thanks go to all the advertisers and contributors who have supported the magazine and to you, the readers for your encouragement. There’s plenty to read in this issue and I hope you enjoy it.

Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and happy New Year.

See you in autumn, cheers Raewyn WAIRARAPA ISSN 1178-4806

CONTENTS

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Summer Events Calendar

10 Wings over Wairarapa 12 Wairarapa Wines Harvest Festival 14 Craft country Fair & Summer Tides Concert 16 Balloon Festival 18 Golden Shears

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20 Fishing Competitions 22 Hunter Architecture 24 Café Mirabelle 26 Road to Castlepoint 28 Brancepeth

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30 Colin Coke 32 Design Inspiration 34 Bow + Arrow 35 Moon over Martinborough 36 Lansdowne Park

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38 Taste Of Summer - a dining guide 42 Wines from Martinborough 44 Olive Oil Directory 46 North Wairarapa Wines 47 Lifestyle Directory

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50 Advertisers’ Directory 51 Wairarapa Map

Lifestyle

SUMMER 2012-13 ISSUE #28

Featherston & Coast • Martinborough • Greytown • Carterton • Gladstone • Masterton & Coast

Life and Leisure in the Wairarapa FEATURING SUMMER Festivals & Events • Taste of Summer - a Dining Guide • Wine & Olive Oil Directory • People Profiles plus lots more...

wings over wairarapa ... 2013

Cover Photography: Philip Merry, Axolotl photography.

Superb Summer Events Your FREE guide to take home - Read the magazine online - www.wairarapalifestyle.co.nz

Writers & Photographers: Katie Farman, Jared Gulian, Tanya Katterns, Julia Mahony, Tina Finn, Peter Nikolaison, Alex Hedley.

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Changes in the air...

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here’s been a wind of change at Gladstone Vineyard. Like the winds that bring the welcoming warm summer breezes, Gladstone Vineyard is excited about the direction the winds are blowing. The biggest change at the vineyard is the sad farewell to one of their long standing winemakers, Gerhard Smith.

The pull of family and another winemaking opportunity in his home, South Africa, proved too much competition to keep Gerhard in Gladstone. We will all be watching with great interest to see who Gerhard’s replacement will be.

We have no doubt that with Gladstone Vineyard’s excellent reputation for consistently producing award-winning wines that there will be plenty of talented winemakers lining up to fill Gerhard’s shoes.

In the meantime, the team at Gladstone Vineyard - Christine Kernohan (chief winemaker), Kyle Mason (viticulturist) and Chris Archer (winemaking consultant) - will continue to produce Gladstone Vineyard’s world-class wines.

Recently awarded wines include the Gladstone Vineyard Pinot Noir 2010 which received the trophy for top Pinot Noir at the Australian Boutique Wine Awards and the Gladstone Vineyard Reserve Sophie’s Choice

2011 which won gold at the Spiegelau International Wine Competition.

Behind the scenes at Gladstone Vineyard changes have also been taking place. Joining the team as office manager is Catherine Hannagan.

After 20 years of working in the Martinborough wine industry, Catherine’s expertise in running all things associated with the workings of a vineyard is a superb asset to Gladstone Vineyard.

Alongside the hard work done in the office, vineyard and winery, is the important role of sales and marketing. Gladstone Vineyard welcomes the experienced Laura Saba to this role. With a background in the Wairarapa restaurant scene, she is well connected to deliver local sales to the Wairarapa’s wonderful choice of restaurants, cafés and retail outlets.

Gladstone Vineyard’s café also has a new team at the helm. James McMenamin is the new chef. James has a wealth of experience including the Wellington Club, Bellamy’s,

Stunning new facility for Cobblestones

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he Cobblestones Museum Trust Board has received resource consent approval to redevelop the front of the Museum complex with a new building that will include quality exhibition space for selected significant objects from the collection and audio-visual and interpretive displays telling the stories of the Wairarapa’s early settlers, which will contribute to increasing public awareness of the historic heritage and values of the museum site.

Accent Architects have developed a set of concept designs and plans for the new entrance building. Their design reflects the character of the site, the village atmosphere and the activity that takes place within the museum’s heritage buildings. Particular attention has been given to the six original Wairarapa NZHPT Category 2 listed buildings located to the rear of the proposed new building.

The building design is sympathetic to local heritage building style and is of a scale in keeping with the heritage buildings on the site.

The new building will enable a number of the museum’s vintage horse drawn vehicles to be housed in a more stable environment and to be more accessible to the visitor. Included in the building design is a large specialist collection management workroom with collection storage facilities to enable the Cobblestones Trust to protect, maintain and preserve the integrity of the museum’s unique heritage collection.

The New Zealand Historic Places Trust has considered the proposal and “supports the initiatives which will help the long term wellbeing of the historic place – important culturally and historically.”

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the highly regarded Roganos (in Glasgow), and other top restaurants in Wellington, the Wairarapa and Sydney, so this is an exciting development for Gladstone Vineyard Café.

Out front is Ian Thompson, known to many from his time at the Platter in Karori. Ian is one of the most experienced maitre’d’s in the country, so it’s great to have him at Gladstone Vineyard too.

Owners Christine and David Kernohan are thinking about “Where next for Gladstone Vineyard?” so the support of a solid team to take the vineyard into the future is timely and exciting.

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The completion of this project will add an important landmark to the Greytown streetscape, providing the Wairarapa with a 21st Century standard educational and tourist facility, preserving and promoting the heritage of the early settlers for future generations and contributing to the region’s cultural, social, economic and sustainable wellbeing.

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Changes afoot in Greytown retail

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Susanne Bird and Penny Hall

inishing Touches has closed its doors after seven years as owner, Penny Hall, has decided to commence the next exciting chapter of her life and will return to England, early in the New Year, to be near her family and become a “proper” grandmother to her six year-old grandson.

Penny has decided to retain the name of Finishing Touches – one never knows where it might pop up again in the

world!!!!

Hence Embellish has evolved. Susanne Bird, who owns Adorne in Greytown, has taken the plunge and opened a beautiful gift shop in the space.

Susanne is a lover of all things beautiful and that describes her new shop. Beautiful gift wear, products for the home and for yourself. Previous customers of Finishing Touches who loved to buy Linden Leaves and Les Floralies products will find them at Embellish – they are all there.

You will also see Penny there on occasions, helping out in the shop– we knew she couldn’t keep away!

We wish both Susanne and Penny all the best in their new ventures.

Linden Leaves, Matakana & Earth Botantics body products, luxurious 100% Silk bedding, beautiful gifts and embellishments for your home Gift vouchers available 81 Main St (next to the French Baker) Greytown Ph (06) 304 7047 shop@embellishgreytown.co.nz www.facebook.com/embellishgreytown

Wairarapa’s First Medispa opens its doors

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fter spending nearly four months in the UK this year director and nurse Katie Winstanley was inspired by the colours of the golden Jubilee to recreate and transform The Manor into a luxury five star venue- Changes Medi-Spa in Lansdowne Masterton.

Katie believes she has created the perfect setting at the historic house in the quiet neighbourhood with beautiful gardens, plenty of off road parking, gorgeous Wairarapa weather and a luxurious decadent spa to lose yourself in for a few hours.

Using European ideas and furnishings the spa incorporates Italian marble tiles, crisp whites and purples, and new technologies ensure that the spa is bathed in sound and soft mood lighting wherever you go, even in the gardens.

With 11 therapy rooms and large day lounge the spa is a sought after destination for groups and hen’s parties. For an intimate time they have the new exclusive VIP suite with doors leading out onto a deck with hot spring spa.

There is the new quirky onsite couple suite Mr & Mrs apartment and its own holiday cottage next door, Number Five, Changes is now considered a resort where people can escape for a night or two.

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results. There is also Trinity Clinics who visit the spa from Wellington each month running a very busy injectables clinic.

After completing her diploma in brow threading in the UK, Katie is offering the latest in brow techniques using New Definition Brows, which is a 30 minute service not seen in NZ before and guarantees immaculate power brows.

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Greytown Sporting Stalwart Retires to the Golf Course

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hey say ‘if you want a job doing, ask a busy person’ and that has certainly been the case for the last six years when it comes to sport and leisure in Greytown. The town’s clubs are thriving, with rugby, football, hockey and swimming (to name but a few) enjoying tremendous success in 2012, thanks in no small part to the support and guidance provided

by Keith Brown, executive officer at the Greytown Community Sport and Leisure Society. Keith has been at the heart of much of the club development in the town during his six years in office and with his forthcoming retirement he leaves both an impressive legacy and a vacancy which will take a special person to fill.

“My role is basically working for the community, and if you look at the number of organisations that belong to the society, there are currently 17 clubs encompassing a total membership of about 850 people out of a town with a population of only 2000,” Keith explains.

“Although some of those people might be involved in more than one club, it’s still a very high proportion. So community is what this organisation is all about and it’s a matter of helping anyone.

“Greytown Sports and Leisure is a fairly unique society and it was certainly one of the first of its kind. The society champions local sport: the idea is to try and get as many people being active as possible, although it’s not just sport – it’s leisure as well. We have been very lucky with our support from Greytown Trustlands Trust which has contributed in excess of $900,000 in the last nine years. It is a huge, huge benefit for the town and sport and leisure.”

New name, same quality

Angela Buswell

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he shop may have a new name but SuperMinx is still the same bright spot in the centre of Greytown.

Owner Angela Buswell decided to re-brand the shop and her three other stores in the Wellington region, after leaving the manufacturing side of the women’s shoe business seven years ago. She wanted to distinguish her retail business from her sister Cushla Reed of Minx Shoes.

SuperMinx not only stock Minx shoes, they now source other brands from around the world, including Italy and Spain, with Polish-made shoes coming next winter.

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Out of sight, out of mind in Greytown

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recent addition to Greytown's burgeoning boutique accommodation scene is deliberately hard to find.

Created by experienced accommodation provider Fiona Bassant, who also has the highly popular Tora Bach at coastal Te Awaiti, Greytown Hideaway is marketed as being "tucked away where no-one can find you". Aimed at couples or singles who want to escape to a luxury room with unsurpassed views, yet only a few minutes from either Greytown or Martinborough, the property is discreetly positioned well off the road and out of sight.

"I wanted to provide a personal service, but not as a traditional B&B where the host is often hovering," Fiona explains. To this end, breakfast provisions (if ordered) are left where guests can collect them. The petite, fully renovated cottage is located far enough away from the house that visitors and host often never meet, with keys and gate security codes provided during the booking process. GPS co-ordinates are also provided as another nod to the "hideaway" theme.

The first of a planned three rooms - all individual little buildings - is named The Laundry because, well, it was one.

The quaint, century-old outbuilding has had a total makeover inside and out, including double-glazing and maximum rated insulation, and is appointed in a French style with carefully selected, high quality fittings, furnishings and linens. A cosy bathroom and cleverly-integrated kitchenette complete the totally self-contained layout. Decks on either side provide views in all directions - from the grandeur of the Rimutaka ranges, through mystical Lake Onoke, around to the mighty Ruamahanga River and east across productive South Wairarapa farmland.

Close enough to local villages to be a great base for winery tours or retail therapy, Greytown Hideaway is also just a minute or two from one of Wairarapa's prettiest picnicking, swimming and trout fishing spots.

See the website www.greytownhideaway.co.nz for further information.

“Europe’s now very competitive and manufacturers are hungry to export,’’ Angela says.

The little SuperMinx shop, in a re-located church in Greytown’s leafy square, offers bags, hosiery, jewellery, children’s shoes and other delights. Since it opened in 2008, it has been staffed by local women who are visited by Angela every two or three weeks. SuperMinx is often a generous sponsor of Wairarapa fund raisers, donating shoes and vouchers.

“I’m addicted to the plum friands at Cahoots Café, lucky for my waist line I only visit every couple of weeks’’ Angela says of her visits to Greytown.

Angela and Cushla started Minx in 2000, with a factory in Waikanae. That closed in 2006, with Cushla retaining the brand and overseas manufacturing business and Angela taking over the retail store in Otaki.

“Retail everywhere is struggling but in Greytown, we have a loyal client base who love the whole concept of the shop and the eclectic collections we put together there. The brand change has uplifted everyone’s spirits,’’ Angela says.

She tries to stock her shops with a variety of price points to suit all budgets.

This summer, she’s excited about the ranges of party shoes, holiday shoes and differing heel heights. Yellow, orange and cornflower blue are some of the popular colour this summer season 2012.

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Creative Workshops

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ocal artist Jane Kellahan has opened a new gallery in Martinborough and is offering creative workshops for the children in the community.

Creative Kids: Every Monday 15 Oct - 17 Dec Held in conjunction with school terms, children attend every week. This fun and fascinating programme explores many themes and works on creative techniques and approaches using a variety of mixed media.

Darling Divas: Every Tuesday 16 Oct - 18 Dec This is exciting workshop is for girls who are interested in growing in performance and confidence with song and delivery. Tutored by Leeanne Meikle, professional jazz and cocktail singer with 25 years’ experience, will focus on ‘unleashing the diva’ within.

Creative Christmas: Wed 19 - Fri 21 Dec, 9 am - 3 pm (Age 5 - 13) This fun and festive three day workshop will be tutored by Jane Kellahan and Steffen Kreft.

Children will explore different mediums and concepts as well as make their own decorations and gifts. Based on the subject ‘family’ they will bring home emotive, cherishable gifts to be proud of.

Marionettes: Puppet Making These exciting workshops are tutored by Steffen Kreft. The courses will open your child’s eyes to the magical world of marionettes. This ancient form of performance has since made a big comeback. Classes are limited to 10.

As a follow-on course from “The Making of the Marionette” children will learn how to bring your puppet to life. They will plan and master a puppet performance as well as create a story.

The class will continue to explore story-telling techniques, how to be a puppeteer and deliver a professional performance that the whole family can enjoy. Classes are limited to 10.

Contact Jane on 021 702 101.

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Tui brings Super Rugby back to Mangatainoka

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uper Rugby defending champions Chiefs will return to the Mangatainoka Rugby Grounds next February to take on the Hurricanes in a Super Rugby pre-season game.

In true No 8 wire style, Tui Brewery will bring the big game to the small town for the fourth year in a row after securing two of Super Rugby’s most passionate franchises for the game on Saturday, February 16th 2013. The announcement follows the success of three previous sold out pre-season games involving the Hurricanes franchise – including the 2011 game against the Chiefs that saw the home team clinch a 35-31 victory.

Tui Brewery commercial manager Nick Rogers, who has championed all the games to date, says Hurricanes and Chiefs clashes throughout the history of Super Rugby have been closely contested and this game promises to be no different.

“Having two of Super Rugby’s most passionate franchises return to the Mangatainoka RFC – which happens to be right next to Tui Brewery - will provide the fans with a memorable game of footie and an opportunity to experience a game that emphasizes the theatre of going to see rugby,” says Nick.

“The last three games held here have sold out, attracting a crowd of around 8000 spectators - the Hurricane’s biggest attendance at a pre-season game ever. And we can’t wait to take New Zealand rugby back to the heartland again.”

Hurricanes head coach Mark Hammett is already looking forward to the preseason game.

“We can’t wait to head back to Mangatainoka. There is a real sense of rugby community up there. It is great we can be involved with grassroots rugby and take this game to the heart of Hurricanes territory,” he says.

“Playing the Chiefs will be a fantastic match. As defending champs, they will be fierce competitors and will help prepare our team for another big season ahead.”

Hurricanes new recruit Ardie Savea is excited about having one of his first Super Rugby hit outs in the heartland, especially after hearing how his elder brother Julian played at the same ground.

“I’m looking forward to my first match at Mangatainoka. It will be great to pull on the Hurricanes jersey in front of a home crowd so hopefully I get that chance,” says the dynamic openside flanker.

“I’ve never been to the game before, just heard from Juls that it’s an awesome day out.”

Like previous pre-season games at Mangatainoka, February’s game is expected to go down in grass roots rugby folklore. It will again be played on Neil Symonds’ farm, which is currently a bare paddock, and see the community rally together to host a predicted 8000 visitors. There will be enough temporary seating to accommodate all ticket-holders; pre and post game entertainment as well as an array of guest speakers while passionate fans are expected to turn out in their regional colours.

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Born from a memory

Ears For Emily

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n entering Struth shop the one resounding feeling you will have is a friendly non-salesie welcome. Sarah, the owner of Struth that opened in September last year, has a way with people, actually, she admits that she just love to talk and has always enjoyed

airarapa toddler Emily Robinson was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at just seven weeks old. Three weeks later she was diagnosed as having a heart defect and had successful open heart surgery at 13 weeks old in Starship Children’s Hospital.

On March 21st 2012 exactly one week before her first birthday, Emily was given the gift of hearing through a cochlear implant. Emily has now learnt what sound is, responds to voices and music and is learning to talk. Emily’s family are now attempting to raise funds to allow her a second cochlear implant. The cost of a second implant is $50,000 and the New Zealand Government does not contribute to the second. The Wairarapa community has already been extremely generous in supporting Emily and her family who live in Martinborough. There have been several successful community fundraising events in Martinborough including a home and garden ramble, a community dinner hosted

by St Andrew’s Church, and a tennis tournament. A Trust has been set up to assist in managing the funds raised, and in the future will also provide assistance to other children in the Wairarapa with significant medical needs.

The Martinborough Home and Garden Tour will be held on 23 March 2013. All proceeds from this year’s big fundraising event will go towards the Ears For Emily Trust. For further information regarding this event please see www.homegardentour.co.nz

connecting with people.

Sarah opened Struth to illustrate that less is sometimes a lot more. ‘“I was fed up with the mass production we all see so much of now, and I wanted to show people that NZ is full of wonderful art, craft and design, not an original idea I know but what is original is what I called my store!”

The name Struth was born from a memory Sarah has of her maternal grandmother Ruth, who didn’t have a lot of disposal income but appreciated quality and style. Ruth used to say Struth when she saw the price of something she admired and in most cases purchased! “It’s just a word I think is so funny and it’s amazing how many comments I get about it.” said Sarah.

Struth is where you will find a wonderful selection of local, national and now international art, craft and design objects along side books, furniture and a little more.

Golf play and stay ...

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Wairarapa Moana: The Lake and its People tells the story of the North Island’s third largest lake complex from the mists of Māori myths to the realities of today’s environmental problems. Thirteen contributors, all authoritative in their fields, have written about Māori and Pākehā history, the area’s archaeology and the moulding of its landscape, the control of water in Wairarapa Moana’s complex of lakes, rivers and wetlands, about the diverse and sometimes rare fauna and flora, and about the clashes between European farming and Māori cultural values. Most significantly, there is also the little known saga of Māori gifting of the Lake Wairarapa to the Crown in 1896, the subsequent trail of broken promises and deceit until, finally, the people of Wairarapa Moana triumphed with their successful development of the Pouākani lands in the Waikato. The book is in full colour, with hundreds of photographs, paintings and maps.

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rural coastal getaway combining ones’ love of golf and relaxation has been taken to another level thanks to the Wairarapa Golf Play & Stay, a fully catered short golfing break on the Wairarapa’s stunning East Coast.

The all-inclusive golf experience is for couples or golfing groups up to 12 persons with options of a two nights/ three days or one night/ two days package including accommodation, food and green fees for two wonderful 9-hole links golf courses (you play 18 holes) and an 18 hole golf course in Masterton.

The new tourism venture is the brainchild of Carmen and Dick Tredwell, who also established the popular Whareama Coastal Walk - a fantastic fully catered over night or one day walk over private farmland and isolated coastline.

“Wairarapa Golf Play and Stay is great for those wanting a relaxing getaway and the chance to test their short game on some of our most scenic golf courses,” says Carmen.

The 9-hole links Riversdale Beach Golf Course overlooks the Pacific Ocean (men par 58, women par 58) and is immaculately groomed and has excellent greens. From the 7th tee you drive straight towards the ocean.

The easy walking Castlepoint Golf Course (men par 64, women par 64) has magnificent coastal views and allows golfers to play nine holes twice from a different tee on the back nine holes.

Situated at the north end of Masterton is the Mahunga Golf Course, a picturesque, flat, easy coast with walking 18 hole course on 2 levels (men par 72, women par 73). For more information visit www.wairarapagolf.co.nz

airarapa Moana: The Lake and Its People, published in November 2012, tells the story of the North Island’s third largest lake complex from the mists of Maori myths to the realities of today’s environmental problems.

THE LAKE AND ITS PEOPLE The book encompasses Maori and Pakeha history, the area’s archaeology and the moulding of its landscape, the control of water in Wairarapa Moana’s complex of lakes, rivers and wetlands, the diverse and sometimes rare fauna and flora, and the clashes between European farming and Maori cultural values. Most significantly, there is also the little known saga of the Maori gifting of Lake Wairarapa to the Crown in 1896, the subsequent trail of broken promises and deceit until, finally, the people of Wairarapa Moana triumphed with their successful development of the Pouakani lands in the Waikato. The book is in full colour, with over 250 photographs, paintings, maps and diagrams.

General editor Ian F. Grant is the author of a number of New Zealand histories.

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Summer Events Calendar There’s plenty happening over the next few months in the Wairarapa, so don’t forget to mark your calendar and participate in all of the fun-filled events

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Craft Country Fair Summer Solstice at Stonehenge Aotearoa La De Da Concert

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Interislander Summer Festival Races at Tauherenikau Summer Tides, Concert on the Coast Castlepoint Community Fishing Competition Jazz and Blues @ Loopline Trust House Wings Over Wairarapa Meandering Summer Lunch Martinborough Palliser Bay Surf Fishing Competition Mangatainoka Motors Rods & Pistons Chrome Show

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Martinborough Fair Wharekauhau Wine and Food Society Farmers Market Interislander Summer Festival Races Waitangi Day Festival The Winery Tour Concert, Martinborough The Winery Tour Concert, Tui Brewery, Mangatainoka Castlepoint Superfish 2013 Ngawi Big Three fishing competition Trust House Masterton A&P Show Hurricanes vs Chiefs, Super Rugby pre-season game, International Golden Shears World Championships 28th Feb – 2nd March

March 2013

2 Castlepoint Beach Races 2 Martinborough Fair 3 Wharekauhau Wine & Food Society Farmers Market 9 Wairarapa Wines Harvest Festival 2013 17 Round the Vines 21-24 Trust House Balloons over Wairarapa Tui Barrel Race 24 30-31 Tui Tuna Tourney For more information go to www.wairarapanz.com www.wairarapalifestyle.co.nz

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SUMMER EVENTS

Living the dream Top dressing pilot Gary Yardley will swap his Air Tractor 502 for a variety of rare vintage aircraft in January, when he takes to the skies in the 2013 Trust House Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow.

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ary Yardley has always been passionate about planes. As a toddler he would join two wooden pegs together to create a toy plane, then years later as a 12-year-old he would finish school and rush down to the Martinborough aerodrome to watch the top dressing planes take off.

“I’d hear them and watch them soar over the trees before jumping on my push bike and following them,” says the Martinborough born and raised pilot. “I just was completely enthralled. I remember watching an air show in Masterton and having that same feeling then one day I got an opportunity to go in the air with a local top dressing pilot and despite coming down and feeling a little bit sick, I was 100 per cent sure that was what I wanted to do with my life.”

And so he did.

After finishing Kuranui College, Gary began his journey to becoming a pilot, which has seen him fly in the skies both here in New Zealand and overseas. After taking flying lessons with the Wairarapa Ruahine Aeroclub, Gary worked as a jump pilot for a local parachute jumping company before gaining his Ag 2 and Ag 1 qualifications. He then completed a four-year top dressing apprenticeship under the tutelage of John Bargh - most of which was spent out of the cockpit loading fertilizer onto the plane – whilst simultaneously cutting his formation flying teeth and furthering his love of vintage airplanes through The Sport & Vintage Aviation Society and The Vintage Aviator Collection Ltd, both of which are based at Masterton’s Hood Aerodrome.

Gary now divides his career aerial spraying between New Zealand and Australia, as well as flying in aerobatic displays.

Impressively, the 36 year old has notched up 5000 flying hours and piloted 36 different aircraft ranging from the oldest BE2 (1914), part of the Vintage Aviator Ltd collection – to an Air Tractor 502 he currently flies in New South Wales. It’s a passion and he loves the complexities of flying each aircraft.

“They’ve all got their own unique quirks – for example the BE2 is so simple. There’s an on/off switch and a throttle. The Air Tractors have turbine engines and GPS guidance and spray gear which is electronically controlled. The 502 is a seriously nice plane to fly. You can spend eight hours in it and still feel fresh when you’ve finished.”

He also loves piloting the S.E. 5, a British biplane from WWI which boasts a rich history.

“The S.E.5 is an old plane but it flies like a modern one. It was instrumental in helping win the war and was piloted by James McCudden, one of the most decorated and honoured pilots during World War One – I love all the history it has.”

This January, Gary will be one of 50 pilots taking to the skies in the biennial Trust House Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow at Hood

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Aerodrome. The three day event, beginning on January 18, has the theme Honouring The Past, Celebrating The Future. It will feature vintage aircraft from WWI, classics from WWII and stunning displays by contemporary aircraft as well as offer a tantalizing glimpse of the future of aviation.

“I’ll be swapping the Air Tractor 502 for a variety of rare vintage aircraft at Wings Over Wairarapa and I can’t wait,” says Gary. “Airshow flying is demanding and specialized in that it takes a lot of practice.

Also because there is a lot of low level flying and a turning melee of other planes around you, you have to approach it professionally and block out what is happening below even though you’re flying to entertain the crowd.”

Wings Over Wairarapa event director Liz Pollock says the event is a “must see” on the Australasian aviation calendar with crowds of up to 40,000 expected to descend on the Wairarapa over Wellington Anniversary Weekend.

Liz says over 70 aircraft will be displayed at the show representing a unique pictorial account of the history of aviation. hile celebrating the historical significance of WWI & WWII military aircraft, Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 will also feature displays from other rarely seen vintage aircraft, heart stopping agricultural displays, gliding, commercial and helicopter displays, home builts, microlights, gyrocopters, jet formations and thrilling aerobatics. The flying each day will culminate in a dramatic pyrotechnic display and mock air field attack lighting up the skies and entertaining the crowds.

In addition to what’s on up in the air, there will be entertainment on the ground with mock battles, static displays including a combined Defence Forces interactive camp, children’s entertainment, contemporary and vintage military vehicles, a trade site village and a Food & Wine Festival showcasing the best of Wairarapa hospitality.

Tickets to Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 are on sale through all Ticketek retail outlets, by phoning 0800 TICKETEK or online through www.ticketek.co.nz.

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18-20 January Programme for Trust House Wings Over Wairarapa 2013.

Friday January 18: Practice Day. Gates opening from 12.00pm with aircraft practising their displays informally throughout the afternoon culminating in an informal early evening show finishing at 7.00pm.

Saturday January 19 & Sunday 20: Gates will open from 8.00am with the air display running from 11.00am to 4.30pm on both days.

The flying each day will culminate in a mock air field attack and a dramatic pyrotechnic display, lighting up the skies and thrilling the crowds. The programme may vary slightly on each day.

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SUMMER EVENTS

Wairarapa Wines Harvest Festival Now regarded as an unmissable date on New Zealand’s wine and food calendar, Wairarapa Wines’ seventh annual Harvest Festival takes place on Saturday 9 March, 2013.

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eld at the same Gladstone location on each occasion, the Festival’s riverside site features ancient native trees in a natural and historic setting. Totara and kahikatea create the ideal environment for the wineries and their accompanying foodies to encircle a large seating area with tables and chairs. Sheltered from all directions and shaded by the giant trees, the site itself determines the feel of the day-long festival, which is casual yet sophisticated.

With all nine food providers and 16 wineries represented in the one location, requirement for movement is minimised and sampling opportunities maximised. Musical entertainment begins in a relaxed mode, gradually increasing to a danceable groove before the day ends at 6pm.

Wairarapa Wines’ Harvest Festival showcases Wairarapa food and wine producers – truly a local harvest – and is supported largely by Wairarapa sponsors. While most wineries are from the surrounding Gladstone, East Taratahi and Opaki areas, a couple of interlopers from Martinborough were in evidence in 2012, adding a bit of spice to the regional competition. And along with the many locals in the 2,500-strong crowd, the festival is now attracting the palates of folk from far and wide. Judges such as Auckland’s Ray McVinnie and Wellington’s John Saker are now a regular part of the formal, behind-the-scenes events of the day, reinforcing the high value now being placed on Wairarapa wines and produce.

The Harvest Festival’s location takes advantage of the natural beauty of rural Wairarapa but is only a 10 minute drive from either Carterton or Masterton. The co-operation of local transport providers and co-ordination with trains from Wellington makes getting to the event easy, and there is plenty of free parking a short distance from the site with shuttle buses running to and fro through the day.

While the event is child-friendly, the emphasis is on the enjoyment of lovingly-prepared Wairarapa food and wine in a grownup atmosphere.

Sure to be a sellout like the 2012 event, tickets for Harvest Festival 2013 go on sale in late November.

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Below: Liz Pollock, event organiser and scenes from Harvest Festival 2012.

Courtesy Wairarapa Harvest Festival & Wairarapa Times Age

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SUMMER EVENTS

Craft Country

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he Craft Country Contemporary Craft Fair and Shop have become part of the local scenery in South Wairarapa. Operating since December 2010, organisers Michele Stokes, Emma McCleary and Natalie Friend are pleased to be hosting the 3rd annual fair in Greytown.

With around 30 designers, crafters and artisans featured at the fair this year visitors can expect a number of familiar faces such as Leanne Taylor : Ramari Textiles, Trevor Lamb : Leather and Art and Sharyl Skipsey : Flame Red Jewellery along with some Wellington favourites such as Dianne Massey-Molloy : Massey Malloy, Meg McMillian : Tea Pea and Nini Mulyani : Things Unseen.

This year Craft Country will also host Zippity Doo Dah, Stitch Bird Fabrics and Yummy Mummys Cheesecakes.

The fair aims to bring together the southern North Island’s best crafters for a high-quality, curated shopping experience.

The fair will be held on Saturday, 15 December from 10am-3pm in the Greytown Town Hall/Library building. Visitors are encouraged to bring a can to be donated to the local food bank in exchange for an entry form to win $100 worth of goodies from the shop.

If you miss the fair try the Craft Country Shop at 44a Fitzherbert Street (the main road), Featherston - just opposite the Post Office which is open Friday and Saturday from 10am – 3pm and Sunday from 11am – 3pm. Christmas Shopping Night Thursday 6 December 8pm.

Further information can be found online through the fair’s website at http://craftcountry.wordpress.com/about-the-fair Craft Country organiser, maker of lists, lead designer for Emma Makes, Emma McCleary.

Photo courtesy of Natalie Friend

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airarapa event organiser Rosie Broughton couldn’t be more prepared as the date of the MoreFM Summer Tides approaches. Sea breezes and chilled tunes will be echoing around the Riversdale Beach terraces once again on January 5, 2013.

Rosie, in her early twenties and only a year out of university, has been going from strength to strength with her career, after running the first event in 2012. The concert idea was initially an attempt to pay off some of her student loan, but Rosie is now enveloping herself in the events and communications industry. She is sure Summer Tides has been the best career move she could have made, as she looks back to the position she was in post event planning.

“I didn’t really have a career plan, but thanks to Summer Tides, I have been given jobs working on some really exciting projects,” she says enthusiastically, as she describes working a seven day week to fit in work on the Classic Hits Winery Tour, the Super 15 pre-season game at the Tui Brewery and the reopening of the National Library building in Wellington, all while being the engine behind the MoreFM Summer Tides.

Hard work is something Rosie agrees is never overlooked, “People will always remember if you put yourself out there and give it a go, but they will remember for longer if you don’t try, or say you will do something and don’t follow through.”

When asked where she seeks inspiration, Rosie laughs and responds “my parents and grandparents have been a constant reminder of the reward of hard work, and team work. I have grown up with a ‘don’t sit still’ attitude, my entire blood line is full of busy bodies with ants in their pants. I am thankful for this”.

Wairarapa talents Sneaky Roots, Barry Saunders and Mr Groove have been selected for this year’s lineup. Rosie says she is excited to be able to support locally, “the decision was extremely hard with a huge response from bands from across the North Island”.

These Wairarapa artists will be playing alongside The Noodles who are back by popular demand, Dirt Box Charlie from Palmerston North, and Wellington musicians Louis Baker and The Andrew London Trio.

Rosie is confident everything is in place for a superb day out, with only the finer details to come, she says the drinks are on ice, the bands are prepped and the BBQ’s are ready to crank.

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SUMMER EVENTS

Flying with the birds

Wairarapa: land of glistening waters, internationally renowned wine region and a hot air balloonists’ dream.

March 2013 will mark 15 years since a mass kaleidoscope of colour flooded the skies above Wairarapa. Tanya Katterns reflects on a personal journey from an intrepid first time flier to a converted enthusiast.

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t wasn’t all beer and skittles when a plan was hatched a decade and a half ago to bring a fiesta to Wairarapa.

In fact the idea of an annual fiesta of hot air, colour and camaraderie nearly collapsed not long after it became airborne in its first year, but the vision and passion of a small group of “believers” hung on.

The fiesta has grown over the years to become the biggest tourist magnet on Wairarapa’s events calendar. Thousands of people pour into the region to take part in the fun and competitive events and the fiesta has now become a permanent annual presence in the region.

I had my first introduction to balloons 10 years ago. Sprawled across the children’s trampoline gazing up into a fierce Wairarapa summer sun in my first few weeks as a newbie to the region, the hiss of the burners and an array of colour flashed before me as a balloon danced and darted across my paddock.

They were a friendly bunch. The early impression was that there was a true depth of fellowship amongst balloonists and a desire to involve locals. I learned very quickly that building relationships quickly was a vital part of a balloonist’s strategy. You see you can’t steer balloons and when it is time to land, a safe place is sought and that might just mean the backyard of an unsuspecting resident.

The children, then just littlies, were wide eyed as the basket gently touched down. They were treated to a tethered flight. A rope was firmly in place to control the journey up and down. My brain ticked over at a frenetic pace. “You won’t get me up there,” I muttered.

I was all for looking and enjoying the visual spectacle but to clamber in and float over the hills and valleys, not on your life!

Two years later, in my role as a journalist, the event’s organisers weren’t going to let me off so easily. “How can you write about balloons unless you have really experienced the thrill of flight,” coerced former balloon fiesta media minder Lisa Sims.

It took a lot of persuasion.

An anxious flier, I greet my pilot, Hans Zoet, looking for

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reassurance. Mr Zoet had brought one of the three special shapes to the fiesta, a 3D self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

Thankfully, after glancing again at the pilot profile I clutch in my sweaty palm, I note Mr Zoet has 30 years’ piloting experience and has flown his balloons throughout the world. In fact his first child, adopted in Nepal, was whisked away from the orphanage in a balloon.

Taking off in a hot-air balloon is a gentle sensation, nothing like an aeroplane’s thrusting power. You don’t realise you’re flying till you look down.

Before liftoff, the dawn chorus of a rooster, another specialshaped balloon, could be heard over the ferocious blasts of lpg gas as balloons were inflated.

We rise to 240 metres and it’s a long way down when you’re just standing in a basket.

Landing is not for the faint-hearted. The basket plunges forward, but the pilot has issued firm safety instructions. Bend your knees and hang on.

Time for my “baptism”. I am ordered to kneel in front of the crew while a balloonist prayer is recited. It is a 200-year-old tradition to honour the world’s first balloonists, who were both barons.

Mr Zoet loudly declares me Baroness from Clareville to Wiltons Rd, as champagne is poured over my head and the grass of the paddock we landed in rubbed in for future good luck.

Back at “ballooning base” in Masterton, pilots and crew tuck into a hearty breakfast, eagerly waited for after a pre-dawn start.

My feet didn’t stay earthbound for long. Now a converted “balloonist”, I have spent many years since drifting with the wind as both a passenger and trainee pilot. I’m hooked.

The 15th annual festival will lift-off Thursday 21 March – Sunday 24 March 2013.

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he Wairarapa valley’s good road networks for balloon retrieval and large open paddocks make for easy and safe landings.

Wairarapa is home to number of balloon pilots who have flown in the region for decades. Most of them live in Carterton.

Wairarapa has hosted 14 major balloon festivals in as many years.

The first was in 1999. The four-day festival hosts approximately 24 balloons from around New Zealand and overseas each year.

The combination of superb flying conditions, supportive sponsors and a welcoming and enthusiastic community has helped build the event into a key fixture on Wairarapa’s event calendar.

During the festival the balloons launch at dawn each day from locations in Masterton, or Carterton. Evening flights are also held.

The festival is organised and managed by members of the Wairarapa Balloon Society Incorporated, a non-profit organisation that includes local balloon pilots, event managers and volunteers.

Many local volunteers are involved as ground crew during the event.

‘Balloon Meister’, (festival flight director) Martyn Stacey has directed the festival’s flying schedule for the last three years. From Canterbury, Martyn is the president of the Ballooning Association of NZ and has attended all previous Wairarapa festivals.

The festival is funded almost entirely through sponsorship and grants from a range of supporters including community-owned Trust House, Masterton and Carterton District Councils and the Wairarapa business community.

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SUMMER EVENTS

Golden Shears

Three days of intense muscle flexing competition by the powerhouses of the international world of shearing and wool handling takes to the stage in Masterton again this summer.

As Tanya Katterns reports, for thousands who prime their clippers for action, the Golden Shears is the only crown that matters. ew Zealand’s got sheep, and lots of them. We eat them, wear them, keep them as pets and wait patiently in the car while flocks of them are driven up our main roads. We’re living off the sheep’s back, so the saying goes.

It’s those sheep that have produced world-class athletes. Men and women in sheds on farms, who have trained themselves to fleece their flocks in record time, are pushing physical and mental boundaries to stand on podiums as champions. There was once a popular perception that shearers were a strange breed – socially inept scoundrels and loners who worked hard and drank harder.

Introduce the Golden Shears, and that perception is blown.

The Masterton sheep farmers who drummed up the idea for the Shears in 1958 are still scratching their heads, wondering how throngs of sweaty blokes and Sheilas getting friendly with woolly sheep could be good for New Zealand’s reputation.

The first contest, in 1961, at the War Memorial Stadium in Masterton, surpassed all expectations.

More than 5000 spectators turned up to support the 280 competitors and the army had to be called in to bring some control to the town. It was a pretty rough and ready environment, and shearers were left hanging for hours to find out if they had made the final cut of six for the big showdown.

The six were tough and fearless men from shearing sheds from the deep south to the far north. Ivan Bowen was a leader among the pack. He was the winner of that inaugural showdown, and his brother, Godfrey, took second place honours.

It took all six men half an hour or more to clip their way through 20 sheep, a far cry from the frenetic pace of today’s shearers, who muscle through their competition flock in less than 19 minutes.

Though the country was abuzz in the following days, most of the pioneers of the time had given the contest just three years of survival. How wrong they were. Shearing’s status and that of the Golden Shears competition grew.

“It’s the Wimbledon of shearing. You can win every competition on the circuit, but unless you bag the Golden Shears title, who will ever remember you?” once said the world’s greatest, King Country farmer David Fagan.

“It is the one event in the world that everyone wants to win. It’s the harsh reality but it’s what everyone is aspiring to and that’s what makes it special I guess.”

The shearers come from around the world. Young men from Ireland, Wales and even Russia, all with stars in their eyes, wanting to learn from New Zealand’s cream of the industry and just be able to say they competed with the best.

There is not a shearer who would disagree the event is the Olympics of a $3 million a day industry.

Now, 53 years old, the Golden Shears is going as strongly as ever.

The stage is now ready to be set at the Genesis Energy Recreation Centre in Masterton for shear thrills for the 53rd Golden Shears, to be held over three days from February 28 to March 2, 2013.

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SUMMER EVENTS

Getting hooked on the coast A number of fishing tournaments are held every summer in the Wairarapa, but only one caters specifically for women. By Katie Farman.

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ianne Millar is the first to admit she was never interested in fishing.

Despite having a commercial fisherman as a partner and living at Castlepoint, arguably one of the Wairarapa’s most scenic coastal locations, the mother of two says she never understood its appeal.

That is until she dropped her line in the seas off Castlepoint one day and landed herself a blue cod.

“I couldn’t really see the sense in fishing and then I went out one day and got hooked. I never realised how much fun it was and I’ve been hooked ever since,” she says.

So much so, Dianne is now the treasurer of the Castle Club Amateur Sports Fishing Club Incorporated that organises the popular women’s only fishing competition, the Battle of the Babes. This summer the 13th annual event will be held at Castlepoint Beach from February 9 -11 and is expected to attract women from all over the lower North Island. Registrations and prize giving will be held at the Whakataki Hotel.

“While competitive, Battle of the Babes is essentially a fun event for women of all ages,” says Dianne. “It has a brilliant atmosphere and gives Mums a chance to leave the kids at home with Dad and get out on the water with their close friends and family.”

Battle of the Babes is for both land based and boat based fishers and covers eight species including blue cod, terakihi, gurnard, red cod, groper, tuna, bucket mouth and barracuda. There are also spot prizes each night of the competition along with best dressed team and individual.

“Commercial boats can chase the big fish out at sea and the second section for boats less than 20ft allows them to chase the smaller species that run closer to the coast,” she says.

Dianne will join the 100 plus anglers in the event again this summer. Taking to the sea in the 46ft boat, appropriately named Nor’Wester, Dianne will be joined by a crew of “fabulous and funny” friends and family. Judging by previous results they’ve got a lot to live up to.

“We’ve done several events as a crew and have been fortunate enough to have the Top Babe on our boat several times including my daughter Tracey Millar and sister Floss Malcolm. We’ve also caught heaps of blue cod, weighing anywhere between 1.8kg – 2.8kg, from our secret spot – but of course I’m not going to tell you where that is.”

Battle of the Babes is one of several fishing competitions on the Wairarapa events calendar this summer.

Lake Ferry Beach Fishing Contest Serious sports fishing enthusiasts and first timers alike will descend on beautiful, rugged Lake Ferry Beach for a day of fun, fishing and fierce competition this Wellington Anniversary Weekend, at the Lake Ferry Beach Fishing Contest. The popular event has been running for 15 years and has previously attracted around 400 participants. It has already received huge support from local businesses and sponsors with the top prize a Suzuki King Quad Bike for the heaviest kawhai caught, and many other prize categories and spot prizes up for grabs. It is organised by the South Wairarapa Lions & Lionesses, and this time will be in support of new equipment for the Wairarapa Police Search & Rescue team.

Organisers say they’d like to see business and corporate group teams pitting their skills on this spectacular stretch of coastline, for a great summer’s day out in Wairarapa. At only 40 minutes drive from Featherston to this slice of wild Wairarapa coast, the event is a great spectator sport and there’s also plenty to do for those not into fishing, from visiting nearby vineyards, to shopping at Martinborough and other attractions such as the historic Lake Ferry Hotel. The event runs from 9am-3pm, with the highlight the Weigh-In at the Lake Ferry Hotel. For more information see www.fishingwairarapa.co.nz. Contact Keith Saywell: 06 304 9940 or Ron Sharpe T: 06 304 8822 / E: ronsharpe@xtra.co.nz.

Summer Fishing Competitions

Others include January 11-12 - Castlepoint 18th Annual Fishing Competition which has 12 categories including one for children to encourage the next generation of fishers January 19 - Palliser Bay Surf Fishing Competition (previously known as the Lake Ferry Fishing Contest) at Lake Ferry February 9-10 - The Castlepoint Superfish February 15-17 - Ngawi Big Three held on the South Wairarapa Coast March 30-31 - Wairarapa Sports Fishing Club’s Tuna Tournament at Castlepoint For more information on these events visit www.wairarapanz.com 20 - Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine SUMMER 2012- 13 Issue #28

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Lights, camera, ready, action A local architectural design practice has a regular spot on national television. Sharon Hunter, the marketing manager for Hunter Architecture and Red Shed, approached Top Shelf Productions very early during the designing of an Eco house for a client looking to build in Martinborough.

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he TV production company were offered a unique opportunity to document a house design and build project from beginning to end. This is not often possible as design and construction is usually well underway when the idea is first floated.

April Ieremia and Josh Kronfeld host Brunch everyday on Choice TV and they are following Darren and Sharon Hunter of Hunter Architecture and Red Shed with the local design team every Tuesday, both in the studio and out on location.

This home is no ordinary home - it is an ECO House. Completely off the grid – solar power, solar water heating, septic tanks, rain water collection and sustainable timber.

With support from ADNZ, Hunter Architecture has been able to create a world class computer 3D fly through of the entire project, that Grand Designs would be proud of.

Many of you will know Darren Hunter from his award winning architecture throughout the Wellington region.

Darren says: “The whole TV experience has been really enjoyable, it is so far removed from the demands of the construction industry. Every filming session brings a new adventure. Seeing it first-hand the team that create the show work incredibly hard and it’s not all champagne and caviar.”

With five weeks of segments already screened they are now available on YouTube. You can follow the progress on the ChoiceTV New Zealand YouTube channel and search for ECO House.

There is also discussion of a documentary style feature in the pipeline using all the footage and interviews once the house is completed in March 2013 You only have to walk around Martinborough to spot any one of 11 new houses designed by Hunter Architecture and Redshed over recent years, as they quietly change the architectural landscape.

The homes have been mainly holiday homes which Darren enjoys as they are a little bit more laid back and don’t need to conform to the rigors of everyday households.

The Eco house is a great fit for Martinborough and the show will highlight this great town as a wonderful place to visit and enjoy. The practical simplicity of generating its own electricity and heat will all be sourced from the energy of the sun and the on-site wood supply. The house will sit comfortably in the landscape and showcase that a truly environmentally sustainable house can be modern and comfortable. Once complete the clients will move from Wellington to live permanently in Martinborough.

As so many of us have done over recent years, a real shift in thinking is taking shape with the ever increasing cost of living.

Everybody has an endless supply of utility companies wanting more and more money for less and less service, from power companies with their line user chargers to local authorities and rate charges.

The house will perfectly suit the needs of the environmentally conscious owners.

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Darren and Sharon Hunter and houses built in Martinborough

charm of yesteryear, Darren’s houses are of a more modernist approach which he hopes captures the charm and soul of the local architectural landscape.

“We have been coming to Martinborough regularly for over 20 years and have owned a property here for 12 years. We have fallen in love with the soul and pace of the town and its people and have made many friends over the years who have all gravitated to Martinborough for the same thing.

This is a great opportunity to see what is involved designing and building an ECO Home here in New Zealand. Watch every Tuesday as the ECO House progresses and join them on www.facebook. com/choicetvbrunch or www.facebook.com/HunterArchitectureLtd.

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Tina Finn

The café, c’est très bon

As in love, so in restaurants; a Wairarapa bistro shows how the union of two cultures can create something both delightfully traditional and refreshingly new, while remaining true to both worlds. By Tina Finn.

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hen Frenchman Olivier Rochery blithely sailed his family’s yacht into Auckland harbour many moons ago with the intention of enjoying a spot of antipodean shore leave before setting his sails to the wind and journeying home again to France, he could have had no inkling that over 20 years later he would be happy co-owner of a successful French cafe in rural New Zealand. Yet here he is on the high street of Carterton alongside New Zealand wife, Megan, celebrating their cafe’s fifth birthday.

With its collection of vintage mirrors, jug of blousy old roses on the countertop, dark furniture and bentwood chairs, Cafe Mirabelle oozes rustic gallic charm, and in its five years in business has become something of an institution in the Wairarapa, both for its style and its menu. Olivier, spectacles perched on top of his head, sees to the front of house and Megan sees to the food.

Formerly an actress, Megan trained as a chef in Auckland but it was during her time in Paris when the couple visited Olivier’s family that she had a true awakening. “Experiencing the French relationship with food first-hand was a transformative moment for me,” she says.

“Every aspect of the process, the shopping, the cooking, the eating was revelatory. Olivier’s mother would go to the market, select her ingredients and come home and produce extraordinary food every day without any fuss. We’d have quails, black pudding and apples, mountains of beans and garlic. When we opened the cafe my hope was to pass that on - how food could be enjoyed in that way.” ike Olivier and Megan themselves, Cafe Mirabelle was always going to be a fusion of two cultures. “It could never be entirely French,” laughs Megan, ‘there would always be something of my New Zealand childhood coming out... how could we not have sausage rolls?” Along with coffee, croissants, brioches and tarts can be found intriguing mash-ups such as their famed bourgignon pie. “You see,” says Olivier, “there you have it. What is more French Kiwi than that?

The classic boeuf bourgignon, in a pie.”

Cafe Mirabelle opens for patisserie and blackboard fare from Tuesday to Friday and bistro dinner, complete with white tablecloths,

candles and handwritten menu, on Friday and Saturday nights. Add to this a busy catering service and Megan and Olivier are rarely still. They visit France regularly however, especially now that one of their two daughters is studying at the Sorbonne, but are happy to come home to Carterton. “It’s similar climactically here to France,” claims Megan, although their winters are colder. “Oh much colder there,” echoes Olivier, “much colder, but in Brittany, by the sea...”

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Full house at Café Mirabelle for the annual Bastille Day dinner on July 14.

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The Road to Castlepoint

Tina Finn

Tina Finn finds that a journey to the sea reveals unexpected delights.

Pat McKenna in his Tinui store.

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egend has it that the writer Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy after driving the road to Castlepoint. Whether there’s a skerrick of truth in the tale, it’s easy to see his inspiration if there was.

The road that snakes and loops from the north of Masterton, east towards the coast, contains some startling and contradictory landscapes. Green swathes of rolling farmland, cute-as-a-button shearing sheds, stately English trees and picturesque weatherboard homesteads are interrupted by jutting rock and dense native bush before giving way again to soggy, spectral marshes full of melancholy trees and mists.

The approximately hour-long drive to the sea is marked halfway by the historically significant settlement of Tinui, site of the first ever Anzac Day service in 1916. The cross on the rocky hill that looms above the town marks the spot where the annual dawn memorial ceremony is staged. With a pub, a school, a hall, a store and a museum, it is a small, close knit community and hums with energy.

Patrick McKenna is happily ensconced in his new role as owner of the Traders of the Lost Art craft, art and collectables store on Tinui’s main thoroughfare, next to the Anzac museum and across from the school. The shop contains an eclectic mix which reflects its owner’s equally eclectic past. Pat’s cv encompasses gallery directorship, cafe ownership, antiques trading, festival organising as well as his constant; music. You might think that with a backstory such as his residence in out of the way Tinui might seem a bit, well, tame. But Pat swears otherwise.

“When people ask me what I’m up to these days, I tell them ‘\”I’m trying to be as nice to people as often as I can.” His eyes widen behind his Lennon glasses, and he laughs. “They can’t believe it... ‘but what do you do?’ they say and I just tell them the same thing, “I try to be as nice to people as often as I can.’ That’s what I do, and it seems easy here.”

His shop is part gallery and part studio, filled with items he has made or collected over the years. A display of beautiful pottery, including works by Jim Greig, sits on plinth-like ply boxes in front of a hessian wall of artworks from various eras. The store is furnished with antiques and curios and in the window an intriguing collection of broken reading glasses, hangs on a wire.

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“I ask people to look out for them for me,” says Pat, “an idea is forming... all that wonderful glass...”

One wall is taken up with bookshelves full of second hand books, primarily as a library for the community. A local woman is browsing for cookbooks and Pat promises her he’ll look out for more. He’s planning to install a coffee machine, “they make fantastic coffee at the hotel but I’d be there every half hour, I can’t live without it...” offee at the The Tinui Cafe and Bar comes with a drop-jaw view.

The pretty, low-slung building with a deep wrap-around verandah sits in all-day sunshine at the t-junction of the Castlepoint turn-off, just a short stroll from the main Tinui township. Tree clad Mount Tinui Taipo fills the frame and is surrounded by rich farmland spreading in every direction from its base. Gumboot wearing locals wave as they go by on their quad bikes or stop in to pick up a delicious sausage roll or coffee slice for their lunch.

Proprietors Joelene and Ross Wakeling are new to the business and have a friendly manner and big plans which include a dedicated garden play area for children so that their parents can soak up the ambience and sample the excellent menu in peace.

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Alex Hedley & Beetham Collection

High on a ridge between the Wainuioru River and the Whakatamahine Stream sits one of the most remarkable sets of agricultural buildings in New Zealand. A towering homestead built in the Scottish Baronial style stands paramount, first seen atop a large formal lawn, fringed with large specimen trees.

The book is written by Alex Hedley and Gareth Winter and is published by Hedley’s Books a division of Hedley’s Bookshop Masterton.

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he Brancepeth homestead and outbuildings, their fittings, fixtures and pre-1950 associated artefacts are registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust under its highest historic listing, ‘Category I’, or ‘places of special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value.’

The Trust calls the buildings in these hills ‘a place of rare and valuable historic interest,and a remarkably intact example of Victorian sheep station self-sufficiency.’ It also calls Brancepeth ‘one of the most complete complexes of station buildings in New Zealand.’

The official historic places registration for Brancepeth Station is an area of approximately 213 hectares, featuring buildings from the original 1856 whare to the magnificent 1905 homestead and those built in between – from the schoolhouse to the killing shed, the coach house to the cookhouse, the blacksmith’s to the library.

Brancepeth was once the largest sheep station in the Wairarapa at 31,000 hectares. In 1901 one hundred thousand sheep were said to have passed through the Brancepeth woolshed pens and at its height 300 staff were on the payroll, with a permanent population of over 100, but today the station buildings have little practical use for farming and the Brancepeth pastoral kingdom is a fragment of its former self, at just 1520 hectares.

Yet its importance to the district and nation’s identity is as strong as ever, providing an exceptional and vivid glimpse into the emergence of pastoralism in New Zealand’s colonial economy and the prosperity of a vast sheep station, at the forefront of New Zealand’s emerging society.

Even in the early days of untold hardship, from the first pit-sawn totara for old whare, the family have kept a keen sense of history and preservation in these hills. In the 21st century this continues.

Together with a private trust, it is the fifth and sixth generations of Beethams who ensure the primitive beginnings and the ‘colonial grandeur’ of the homestead and outbuildings is maintained. This sense of history extends not only to the structures themselves but to the contents within – the pioneering saws, the objets d’art, the faded photographs, maps, records, the wallpaper, relics, kitchen utensils, farm implements and material possessions. It is through

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Hugh Beetham in station office with the mail bag.

Station office and library.

these items, just as much as the buildings which contain them, that the story of Brancepeth lives on – truly a place of rare and historic interest.

It is this sense of history that has led to the creation of this book, and it would not have been possible without the presence of mind and access provided by the Beetham family.

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The art of printmaking Colin Coke says print is a medium in which you are constantly learning and even after 40 years of experience the process can be ‘a bit scary’ at times.

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olin, who runs Arthaven Gallery in Main Street, Greytown, creates limited edition prints using the medium of lino. Although lino is a commonplace household material comparatively few artists today use it as a print medium.

Linocuts are a method of relief printing. Ink is hand-rolled onto the lino block and once an area of colour has been printed the block is hand-carved away to allow the first colour to show through when the next layer is printed.

As Colin cuts away the block, working in reverse, he destroys it; so the edition cannot be repeated.

The process is complex and calls for extreme accuracy and an excellent understanding of colour. It also takes a lot of time. Each colour must dry thoroughly before another is printed over the top, so creating a single edition can take several weeks, Colin says he enjoys the technical challenges of the medium – “the challenge of using one piece of lino to create a multi-coloured print”. It’s a totally different process to computer-generated prints and he admits to some frustration when people ask if the work has been done on a computer.

Colin trained at fine art school in England where he was tutored by a leading English printmaker, John Brunsdon, and in the late 1970s he studied with leading New Zealand printmakers, the late John Drawbridge and Kate Coolahan.

“I trained and worked as a secondary school teacher and after years of teaching I felt the need to refresh and upgrade my skills as an artist. So I went back to Wellington Polytechnic design school, as a mature student, and was fortunate to have John and Kate as tutors.”

In the mid-1990s Colin and his wife, Merrill, moved to Golden Bay where he became a full-time artist and opened his studio to the public in summer. The studio was a success, but the selling season was limited and, after about 15 years in Golden Bay, Colin and Merrill were both keen to return to the Wellington region.

“We came to look at the Wairarapa. When we visited Greytown, and I saw the foot traffic in the main street, I could see potential for

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opening an art business there. So I jumped at the chance to rent the current gallery. “ Colin describes Arthaven Gallery as a great space that offers the opportunity to showcase work he admires by other artists, as well as sell his own. The work includes etchings, pastels, pottery, sculpture and jewelry as well as reduction prints.

In the off-peak months of May and September he runs printmaking classes for four students. “I enjoy the classes and I bring to them both my secondary school teaching experience and my extensive knowledge of linocut printing as an art form.” is inspiration and images tend to come from his immediate surroundings. Hence, landscapes inspired by Golden Bay have been superseded by images of Wellington’s urban landscape and Greytown.

He has also created prints of Japan – a country he enjoys visiting. When he was invited to participate in a triennial printmaking exhibition in Paris in 2009 the Japanese images proved very popular.

In fact, one was used on the official invitation to the exhibition opening at Montmartre.

Colin sent work to Paris for the triennial again in 2012 and his only regret was that he couldn’t get over for the opening in November.

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Design inspiration With the move to Martinborough now complete, Jessica Jina has found her niche in this popular wine country village.

aving been weekend residents in Martinborough for the past five years, Jessica Jina and partner Malcolm Alexander, made the decision to become permanent residents in July 2012.

Filled with enthusiasm for her new home town she saw an opportunity to enhance Martinborough’s boutique shopping experience by procuring space in a 1896 heritage building known as the Martinborough Telephone Exchange, and opened ‘jessica’s living room’ an inspiring homewares shop with in-house consultancy services, adding value and style to living and working environments.

The name’ jessica’s living room’ is totally appropriate as the business occupies an architecturally attractive room facing into Kitchener Street, providing the perfect setting for this elegant shop.

With a passion for beauty, combined with creative talent gained from 20 years as an award winning designer florist and decore consultant, Jessica is well qualified for her new role. Having established a successful retail business in Lower Hutt, operating Jessica The Florist, she won the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Best Small Business Excellence Award in 2003 and was runner up Woman in Business.

Jessica’s ethos is about ‘Living with what you love’ and this has been her inspiration for establishing this wonderful addition to Martinborough’s boutique shopping choices.

“My promotional quote ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ is what the business is all about, and I want to make a visit to the shop Jessica is passionate a peaceful and joyous experience.

My aim is to provide quality and about supporting ‘this affordable homewares as I believe beautiful boutique home interiors make us who we are – they allow us to create town which I have now warmth and peace in our home adopted as my home’ and business surroundings.” said Jessica.

For the discerning buyer, Jessica strives to offer a point of difference, with elegant european inspired mirrors and chandeliers, giftware sourced from Europe, french reproduction solid wood furniture, traditional garden urns, plinths and planters, gardening and landscaping products to add value, style and enjoyment to interior and external living. She also has an in-home interior design consultancy available.

If you are looking for wedding and special occasion gifts, jessica’s living room has exquisite teacups and teapots, 100% cotton throws and sleepwear from natural fibres which are comfortable, yet elegant.

Gourmet foods sourced locally and also from throughout NZ and Italy, allows customers to choose content for themed gift presentations, with corporate themed presentations proving popular.

With the approaching festive season customers have a wide range of products to choose from including handmade chocolate

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novelties such as pinecones, puddings, chocolate marshmallow logs, ginger biscuit tree decorations, christmas cakes and cup cakes and christmas wreaths and table centrepieces.

To complement your surroundings, poppies, peonies, hydrangeas, tulips, orchids are available by the stem or as quality everlasting floral arrangements designed into French jugs or glass vases. here is a unique range of jewellery and scarves which complements the current resurgence in 50’s fashion of brightly coloured designs and the jewellery made of resin and hand blown glass. Gift vouchers are also available if it’s too hard to choose a suitable gift for friends and family.

Jessica is passionate about supporting ‘this beautiful boutique town which I have now adopted as my home’ and has met many visitors from New Zealand and abroad plus locals who have given their support to shop locally. Many of her local customers have said how pleased they are to have an attractive new business for their guests to go shopping for that special gift for family, friends and all occasions. “ I take pride in displaying my products in the most appealing way possible using my floral and design talents, and my customers repeatedly comment on the relaxed, feel good ambience while browsing and making their purchase choices.

I pride myself on good quality products, fantastic service and treating people the way they want to be treated when they have chosen to shop here. I like to make their shopping experience, enjoyable and effortless, offering professionalism, experience, enthusiasm, passion - ‘shopping with a difference’.” said Jessica.

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Soul Design: BOW + ARROWV Great design and an ethical business model were the twin aspirations for Bow + Arrow

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creators Danielle Spijkerbosch and Peter Bateson discovers Katie Farman.

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rowing up in her native Holland, Danielle Spijkerbosch loved to read folk stories. So much so, she began channelling her love of mystical history, folklore and nature into a contemporary range of jewellery sold under the label Danielle Designs.

Individual pieces – necklaces, rings and earrings – are made from high quality; lead free and tarnish resistant base metals and finishings, and feature bird, feather, floral and tree motifs. They are whimsical and charming.

“I always had a liking for folklore because it has such a rich history behind it – through magical tales and cultural traditions,” says the designer, who also enjoys working with resin and brass.

“Coupled with that I love anything vintage – it must be the Gypsy in me – and my jewellery reflects this. There’s a story behind each piece.”

Danielle’s jewellery is available from Bow + Arrow, a stylish new design store she recently opened in Masterton’s Queen Street with partner Peter Bateson. The couple say they had a mutual desire to create a store based on their twin philosophies of good design and an ethical business plan.

“We say to customers Bow + Arrow is an urban wilderness. Our products are rugged, inspired by nature and where possible have organic and ethical backing,” says Peter. “For example 75 per cent of the colouring of Danielle’s jewellery (gold, bronze and black) is done locally and our leather satchels, which we design, are made in India by a family we’ve forged a strong relationship with.”

Peter says the vintage looking leather satchels are made in Udaipur, an area renowned for its leather craftsmanship, in the same way a leather bag would have been made 80 years ago. He said the decision to get them made off shore followed an initial visit to the area in 2003.

“The thing I like is that each bag is different. The leather has

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different qualities and the brass buckles on each bag are sourced from different community markets in India. There’s a lot of soul behind it – it’s not massed produced – and we like knowing our business here in Masterton is helping support a community on the other side of the world.”

The couple’s foray into retail and design has involved some twists and turns.

Danielle, a qualified teacher, moved to New Zealand in 1992.

She spent time teaching in Wellington and Featherston whilst simultaneously furthering her football career. The left wing enjoyed four years with the White Ferns and scored her only goal for New Zealand in 1998 against South Korea. eter on the other hand was born and raised in Wellington and spent much of his career in the corporate world. After meeting Danielle in 2004, the couple moved to the Wairarapa for lifestyle reasons and decided to explore their creative sides more seriously.

“I’ve always been creative and made jewellery but after meeting Peter we realised we had a mutual love and understanding of design,” says Danielle.

The couple now own a beautiful lifestyle block north of Masterton and divide their time raising their three children and making plans to grow their business. While Peter still commutes several times a week to Wellington, he can often be found in Bow + Arrow, which now employs two staff.

“We spend a lot of time getting the right products and developing them. We are also now getting requests from design stores all around the country wanting to stock our leather bags and Danielle’s jewellery,” he says. “It’s very rewarding. I love seeing the reaction of people when they come into Bow + Arrow here in Masterton. They’re genuinely surprised and delighted by what we’ve got.”

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It pays to never give up!

“I

’m giving up,” I said. “It’s never going to be a book.”

“Maybe you shouldn’t give up just yet,” Uncle Oscar replied.

Uncle Oscar was here on his annual visit from New York, and we were sitting at the Gamekeeper, the restaurant at Alana Estate vineyard just down the road. Rick and I were having lunch with Uncle Oscar and our friends Leelee and the Wolf.

We were talking about this blog. Ever since I started ‘Moon Over Martinborough’ back in April 2009, I’d wanted to turn it into a book.

Although the blog had gained some recognition, after three years of hard slog I still felt no closer to my book goal.

It didn’t matter that I already had a first draft of the book manuscript put together, or that my stories were appearing regularly in Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine. I was ready to throw my hands in the air.

“Uncle Oscar’s right,” Leelee said. “Don’t give up. Why don’t you write a book proposal and send it to publishers? I have a great book which tells you how to write a book proposal. You can borrow it.”

Rick and the Wolf joined in, and the group’s gentle cajoling continued until I finally agreed to write a proper book proposal.

Leelee’s copy of ‘How to get published and make a lot of money!’

by Susan Page was my guide. The title is a bit embarrassing, but it has a very good chapter on how to write a book proposal. It explains how to write sections on the author, the audience, the marketing plan, analysis of the ‘competition’, and chapter-by-chapter outline.

I spent almost two months working on that proposal. I honed and crafted and redrafted. On 16 May 2012 I sent that proposal – printed handsomely and filled with gorgeous photographs – to four publishers. I figured it would sit for months in their ‘slush piles’ of unsolicited material, and I’d be lucky if I ever got a response.

Well, blow me down if I didn’t get a response less than two weeks later. It was from Nicola Legat, publishing director at Random House New Zealand. She said, “Many thanks for sending in your overview of Moon Over Martinborough. I am impressed by and grateful for the very detailed analysis it contains. I’d very much like to see the first draft.”

Huh? Was this possible? I quickly sent her my manuscript.

Then the painful waiting began. Each day was sheer torture.

What was Nicola thinking? Would she hate my manuscript? Would she love it?

After a week that felt like an eternity, Nicola emailed saying, “Just a quick note to say that I am halfway through, and I am loving it! I’ll be back to you next week.”

Yeah! But it wasn’t final yet. Maybe the second half of my manuscript was horrible. Maybe she would change her mind.

Finally Nicola’s response came. “I’ve now finished my read and I am going to propose to the publishing committee at our Wednesday meeting that we accept this book for publication early next year. I will let you know that afternoon what their decision is.”

In his “Moon over Martinborough’ blog, Jared Gulian tells stories about living a deeply satisfying life in Martinborough, one of the world’s most beautiful places. www.moonovermartinborough.com What?! OMG! I was thrilled. But Wednesday was four whole days away! How on earth was I going to survive the wait?

As it turned out, that four-day wait coincided with my and Rick’s big plane trip back to the States for a long-overdue visit with friends and family. Our first stop was San Francisco, where we stayed with our old Tokyo friends Josh and Tina. At their house I checked my email, and sure enough there was an email from Nicola.

“Can you give a number where it’s convenient to call you later on this afternoon?” Nicola wrote.

I responded that I was in San Francisco, and I sent Josh and Tina’s home phone number. Literally moments later the phone rang.

Tina answered in her best I’m-a-corporate-lawyer voice. She said, “Yes, Jared is here. May I ask who’s speaking?”

I felt like screaming, “Just give me the damn phone!”

“Thank you, Nicola,” Tina said calmly. “I’ll get Jared.”

Tina handed me the phone with a huge smile on her face. “Jared, it’s Random House calling for you.”

What hopeful writer doesn’t want to hear those words?

I took the phone and walked out onto Tina and Josh’s back deck, which overlooks an amazingly beautiful canyon. I can barely remember the details of the conversation. My head was spinning.

I have a piece of paper I scribbled notes on, and it hardly makes any sense at all. ut the most important thing I heard in that conversation was this. The publishing director of Random House New Zealand said very clearly, “We are really keen and would love to publish your book with you.”

It was a yes.

Since then I’ve signed a contract, worked with Nicola on manuscript revisions, and discussed cover ideas. The book is going to be a trade paperback with photo sections. I’m now dealing with a text editor. Soon a photographer is going to come out to our property for a photo shoot.

I feel like I’ve stepped into some bizarre parallel universe where all of my dreams come true.

‘Moon Over Martinborough’ the book is set for release in June 2013. The print book will be available in New Zealand at that point, and an eBook will be available internationally.

Random House NZ will act as my agent and try to sell the print book rights to other publishers around the world. Can you believe it?

Thank God my friends and loved ones intervened just as I was ready to give up. Thank God.

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Jared with Henrietta, Lucy and old man Henry, just a few of his furry friends featured in the new book. www.wairarapalifestyle.co.nz

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Lansdowne Park - a caring environment

After four years in the planning, the vision of Trevor and Susan Marshall was realised with the opening

Wendy Riley, Sales Manager with owners Trevor and Suzanne Marshall.

Below: Interiors of new care facility.

of the new serviced apartments and care centre at Lansdowne Park Lifestyle Village, situated in Masterton with magnificent views of the mountains.

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heir vision has been to set the benchmark combining the highest standards of facilites and excellence in care.

The new complex features a 50 bed care centre offering rest home, hospital and respite care on the ground floor and 29 serviced apartments of the first floor.

A huge amount of thought has gone into the design of the complex with lots of skylights and large windows to let in as much natural light as possible and to take advantage of the superb views.

On the ground floor each room has been designed to be suitable for both rest home and for hospital level care. There are also rooms available for visiting family members who may need to stay close by, complete with kitchen, shower and bathroom facilities.

In the basement of the complex there are 10 car parks as well as outside parks and mobility scooter owners will be able to drive into the basement, plug in their battery recharger and take the lift up to the apartments.

Within the complex there is an activity room, theatre, library, shop and a beauty salon. These are in addition to the other facilities, pool tables, library, communal lounge, swimming pool and spa, situated in The Landing which is the social hub of the village The serviced apartments on the top floor have been designed in a range of six plans which include studios and one bedroom apartments, both spacious and each with a kitchenette, ensuite, with underfloor heating, double glazed windows and fully insulated internal walls.

The Lansdowne Park village itself is comprised of two and three bedroom independent villas, all individually designed to be unique with excellent views, fully insulated and sited for the sun. Each villa has internal access garage, wheel chair accessible doorways and showers and landscaped gardens with tar sealed driveways and concrete paths.

At the village everyone is catered for especially the men, with the final fit out of the Men’s Shed completed in October last year.

The shed gives residents somewhere to work on their hobbies be it woodwork or metal work with a mix of their own tools and facilities supplied by the village. It features a large workshop with tea and coffee facilities, bathroom, nurse call monitor and fire monitoring

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system. Trevor sees it as a place where residents can work on any project that their partner might think a bit noisy or messy for the garage while at the same time being a great place to socialise.

Wendy Riley, sales person, says “in the three years I have been here I have see the village grow and flourish. With the addition of the care centre residents will be able to have as little or as much assistance as they need while living an independent lifestyle.�

The complex has done a lot for the Wairarapa region in terms of employment and the past few months has seen staff increase to 30 in November with a potential total of 90 staff when the care centre is full.

INDEPENDENT VILLAS Energy Efficient Double Glazing Individual sunny homes Building & grounds maintained Low weekly fee Security Pool & Spa

OPEN DAYS www.wairarapalifestyle.co.nz

APARTMENT & VILLAS MONDAY – FRIDAY 10.00 - 4.00 & SUNDAY 1-4PM

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Taste of Summer - a Dining Guide Summer in the Wairarapa means new life, budding ideas and of course an abundance of fresh food.

Move outside to the sunny courtyards and patios of

summer fling and have top-notch caterers present a banquet of seasonal Wairarapa goodness.

The choice of dining and faunction venues runs from the small and intimate to the grand and luxurious.

Bon appétit!

A unique food and golfing experience awaits visitors to the refurbished Cafe Solway, whose new comfortable surroundings are reminiscent of a high country lodge.Cafe Solway’s new menu has been designed to complement the new refurbishment. Enjoy freshly ground espresso coffee and a range of readymade treats, as well as order off the all-day menu which features brunch favourites including eggs benedict; french toast with fruit compote and the big breakfast muffin filled with bacon, egg, tomato and sausage. Made

• weddings • conferences • parties

to order gourmet sandwiches, burgers and salads are also available.

Café Solway is a relaxed indoor/outdoor all-day dining experience for the whole family - enjoy a peaceful country setting and rural views of the Tararua Ranges while the children play on the playground or let off some steam on Wairarapa’s only driving range. Clubs for both children and adults are available for use, as well as drivers.

Café Solway and Golf Driving Range is open seven days a week.

Summer Hours: 10am - 8pm Winter Hours: 10am - 7pm. High Street, Masterton (06) 370 0511

CAFE SOLWAY S o l w a y Pa r k Fully refurbished All new menu Dine in or takeaway

As relaxed or as formal as you like, we can design menus to cater for all numbers, tastes and styles.

Indoor and outdoor garden dining

Providore’s team of professional staff will make your day delicious.

Preferred caterers at Brackenridge Country Retreat and Spa, Providore’s recipe is to source fresh local produce, bring out the flavours add a dash of passion to make your special day fun and stress-free.

Available for functions

Whatever the event, whatever the number, Providore will provide with flair.

info@providorefood.co.nz

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Children’s playground 10-bay golf driving range Mountain views Open 7 days Summer hours: 10am – 8pm Winter hours: 10am – 7pm

jellicoe St Martinborough • Ph 06 306 8811 Behind Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park, High Street, Masterton | Ph: 370 0511 38 - Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine SUMMER 2012- 13 Issue #28

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our wonderful restaurants and cafes. Or throw a

TASTE - A DINING GUIDE “Dear Providore, Thanks so much for the amazing food and service you provided at our March 31st 2012 wedding. The standard of the food was simply incredible and exceeded our expectations. Many of our guests commented it was the best “Wedding Food” they had ever had. The cake was stunning as well, thank-you for the effort taken in making that, we were so impressed!

All the best Amanda & Stephen.”Another happy customer! Come in and visit us at Providore Food & Catering to see how we can make the beginning of your married life together “simply incredible”.

A French country restaurant right here in Carterton!

Handmade foods & pastries, all made on the premises French regional specialties

Tues to Fri 9am - 3.30pm Sat 10am - 2pm

Catering - Weddings, Birthdays, Group bookings, restaurant seats up to 40

Fridays & Saturdays Dinner from 7pm 31 High St North, Carterton

IN.GRE’DI.ENT Deli & Café and Grandma’s Kitchen.

IN.GRE’DI.ENT Café / Deli and now Wine Bar, is a well established business in the heart of the Martinborough Wine Village. IN.GRE’DI. ENT provides fresh bread, local and NZ cheeses, local olive oils, preserves and of course local wine. They specialise in cheese platters matched with a local glass of wine and also serve terrines and pates. As part of the Deli / Café the premises include a wonderful room with French doors opening on to Ohio Street. This part of the business was renovated to serve high teas on the weekends and public holidays and is now also a wine bar serving local wines and boutique beer from Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery. The wine bar is open until early evening for pre-dinner drinks and platters and takes in the last of the evening sun. A wonderful place for an intimate catch up with friends and family to relax and enjoy good wine and great company.

It’s been a busy year for Megan and Olivier Rochery at Café Mirabelle. This little corner of France in the heart of the Wairarapa – Carterton – is well patronised by locals and visitors alike. Now five years old, the word has spread far and wide about the delightful food and cosy atmosphere. From Tuesday to Friday, 9am till 3.30pm and Saturday 10am to 2pm, Megan’s delicious cakes, pastries, dishes of the day and supreme coffee are served. On Friday and Saturday nights from 7pm the white tablecloths go on and the café transforms into a French bistrôt serving from a menu of regional and family cuisine. The café is now fully licensed but you are still welcome to bring your own wine for a corkage fee of $8.Seating is limited to around 35 guests so it’s a good idea to book ahead. Café Mirabelle in Carterton celebrated its 5th birthday in October. This French country restaurant in the Wairarapa is family owned and all dishes are cooked on the premises, including handmade patés, pastries and delicious regional specialties. Café Mirabelle is now fully licensed as well as BYO and offers a selection of both local and French wines.

The Gladstone Vineyard Café, nestled in the heart of the Wairarapa, comes alive in summer. See the ducklings on the pond and fresh budbursts on the vines as you relax and unwind at one of New Zealand’s most beautiful vineyards. The cafe offers fresh, seasonal food, sourced from local producers and matched to our award-winning wines.Enjoy live music at our ‘Long Lazy Lunches’ every third Sunday of the month - check our website www. gladstonevineyard.co.nz for details.The café is open Friday to Sunday 11am to 3pm and is also available after hours for private functions and corporate events.Call us on 06 379 8563 or email café@ gladstonevineyard.co.nzWe’re worth the trip

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Licensed and BYO Phone 06 379 7247

“IN.GRE’DI.ENT has Christmas gifts and delicious treats in store now!

We have all you need to make your perfect Christmas Christmas cakes, puddings, Schoc Chocolate, Preserves, Chutneys and Jams. Local Olive Oils and wines We specialise in Local & NZ Cheese Platters to enjoy with a local wine or beer or relax with a great cup of coffee We are Open 7 days visit our website www.ingredient.co.nz or email us info@ingredient.co.nz 8 Kitchener Street Martinborough Wine Village T: 06 306 8383

Cheers to Summer

Gladstone Vineyard winery & café 340 Gladstone Road, RD2 Carterton Phone 06 379 8563 Email: info@gladstonevineyard.co.nz www.gladstonevineyard.co.nz Open Thursday - Sunday 11am - 4pm Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine SUMMER 2012 -13 Issue #28 - 39

TASTE - A DINING GUIDE

NEW ZEALAND’S GREATEST BAKERY, CAFÉ AND DELI • Dine in or take away • Ample vehicle and coach parking • Seating for 150 customers • 5 star restrooms • Fully licensed • Guaranteed fast service • Best food selection in the country • 40 seat private room available • Indoor outdoor and garden seating O P E N 7 DAY S A W E E K 2003 CHARLES ROOKING ‘CARTERTON ACHIEVERS AWARD’ WINNER www. wildoatscafe.co.nz

127 HIGH STREET, CARTERTON PHONE: 06 379 5580

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Wholesome, seasonal and fresh are words that describe the new menu at The Grill at Solway Park. “Our food philosophy has become increasingly more focused on using what’s in season, what’s local and what’s fresh,” says the restaurant’s new executive chef, Yuri McKenna. “We grow a lot of our own vegetables and herbs on site and utilise offerings from the many food heroes here in the Wairarapa as well as those with a like-minded sustainable focus.” Yuri has a passion for food and cooking – and for creating innovative menus with high impact. “I’m looking forward to providing our guests with a menu people will identify with as local and specific to the restaurant,” he says. The Grill at Solway Park’s new menu is presented alongside a superb selection of award-winning wines from the Classic New Zealand Wine Trail.Enjoy elegant indoor and outdoor dining in the main restaurant or beside the fire on the deck, perfect for any season and any occasion. The Grill at Solway Park welcomes children and offers a special children’s menu and prices .

Wild Oats Café is well known for country-sized servings of fresh baked breads and cakes, quiche, lasagne, filo wraps and grill plate special corn wheels, but also offers Greek and pasta salads, roast veggies and the famous Carterton Breakfast which is available from as early as 5am.It’s also a favoured meeting place for car, motorcycle and cycle club day outings, with a private dining area upstairs for 10-40 guests or family members. The staff is proud to offer clean facilities and excellent service with a smile.

At Coney wines’ Trio Café every escapist gets the quintessential vineyard experience: Succulent cuisine from the kitchen of committed foodie, Margaret Coney, matched with the award-winning Coney wines.

A sweeping vineyard vista and the ambience that goes with dining amongst the vines in the elegant courtyard.Informative and amusing tastings at the table or the bar from Coney Wines’ irrepressible owner.

In short, when you combine memorable food and wines with the perfect vineyard setting you have, quite simply “the perfect accompaniment”.With its marquee-style canopy and beautiful vineyard setting the courtyard at Trio Café is the perfect venue for weddings, corporate junkets, birthday dinners and other special celebrations.

Whether you are planning a smaller celebration or a larger ‘affair’ Coney Wines is the ideal place to create the memories.

Located in a prominent position at the north end of Masterton, the Horseshoe Restaurant is an easy place to find.

The stylish refurbishment of the Horseshoe Café, Restaurant and bar has turned this 1950s Art Deco Masterton landmark into one of the Wairarapas’ busiest dining venues.

The recently launched summer menu is a real hit and ticks all the boxes. With fantastic new items such as their custom made hanging skewers, gourmet sandwiches in a box or their popular chowder or roasts – there is something for everyone!

The children are not forgotten either, with an excellent children’s menu filled with fresh food options and kids sundaes are a firm favorite!!Their popular 2-4-1 meal deal on Tuesdays is staying for the summer season but booking is strongly advised!If you’re after a more relaxed venue, there is a shearing themed bar with a pool table, Tab and gaming available adjacent to the restaurant.

The Horseshoe is a bar as well as restaurant with a lovely range of house wines including a good selection from local vineyards, a fantastic cocktail list, coffees and specialist teas.The Horseshoe has disabled facilities, free wifi for dining guests and air conditioning; see their web site for more information and a full version of their menu. www.thehorseshoe.co.nz Ph: 06 3771102

TASTE - A DINING GUIDE

The perfect dining venue Cellar Door & Trio Café

Right in the heart of Martinborough Wine Village is a wonderful café that’s busy nourishing the neighbourhood every single day of the week from 8am to 4pm.Whether it’s breakfast, brunch or lunch you’re after, The Village Café offers a wide range of tasty treats. Enjoy the country style surroundings of the café or relax in the courtyard and absorb the local atmosphere. When the kitchen closes at 3pm you can still enjoy a scrumptious selection of home-made delights from the counter, over a coffee, a huge selection of teas or a delicious chai latte. Every Friday night from 6pm to 9pm there’s something special to look forward to – A candlelit, elegant, enticing menu of pizza and home-made pasta with local wines available by the glass.

Looking for a gorgeous venue, with an experienced team that can effortlessly host your perfect Wine Country Wedding? We’d love to hear from you.

New to the Martinborough scene is Micro, an intimate winebar with an impressive selection of local and international wine.

Carefully selected by Wendy Potts, a local winemaker, you’ll enjoy the very best wine Martinborough has to offer with many available by the glass. To get the full experience of our local wines, you can try our flights of wine and compare local wines. And if you’re stuck for choice, Wendy’s on hand to help you choose the right wine suited to your tastes.

If beer is more to your fancy, you won’t be disappointed with Micro’s selection of craft beer available in both bottle and on tap.

For a perfect accompaniment with your wine or beer, try Micro’s ‘matched’ food platters or order from the small plates menu.

Start your evening at Micro with an aperitif or wind down in their private courtyard with a sweet treat off the menu and a digestive.

SUMMER Friday Saturday Sunday For further enquiries: Tel: 06 306 8345 Fax: 06 306 8344 Email: info@coneywines.co.nz www.coneywines.co.nz

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Ata Rangi 9 Puruatanga Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9570 Email: wines@atarangi.co.nz Web: atarangi.co.nz Not to drop by Ata Rangi on a visit to Martinborough would be akin to visiting the Louvre and missing the Mona Lisa.

One of New Zealand’s finest wineries - Gourmet Wine Traveller.

Margrain Vineyard Cnr Princess St and Huangarua Rd, Martinborough.

Ph: 06 306 9202 Email: wine@margrainvineyard.co.nz Web: margrainvineyard.co.nz. Open weekends and public holidays throughout the year. Onsite picturesque Vineyard Villas, conference facilities and The Vineyard Café.

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Delicious café cuisine matched with award-winning Coney wines.

3 Croft Wines 59 Kitchener Street, Martinborough. Ph: 0508 4 CROFT Email: sales@croft.co.nz Web: croft.co.nz Call by and meet the owners and enjoy the ambience of our Home Block Tasting Room, savour our full range of carefully handcrafted wines.

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Brodie Estate 16 142 Dublin Street Martinborough Ph: 06 3068835 Email: Enquiries@brodieestate.co.nz Web: brodieestate.co.nz Vineyard, winery, olive grove, art. Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Extra Virgin Olive Oils. Sage Cottage for Olive Grove accommodation. Cellar door open daily11.00am to 5.00pm December, January, weekends Nov,Feb,Mar,April, public holidays or by appointment.

5 Martinborough Vineyard 57 Princess St, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9955 Email: winery@martinborough-vineyard.co.nz Web: martinborough-vineyard.co.nz Cellar Door open 7 days.

Home of the best Pinot Noir in the World (April 2011) and voted one of the Top NZ wineries by Decanter (2010) JAMES 19 MMURDOCH Murdoch James Estate a r t i n b o r o u g h Dry River Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9165 Email: info@murdoch-james.co.nz Web: murdochjames.co.nz Described as Martinboroughs best cellar door experience by many visitors. Enjoy our hospitality - wine sales, café, tours, picnics and functions all available. Wine tasting and sales every day between 11.amand 5pm.

Bloom restaurant open for lunch Thu-Mon 11.30 am - 3.30pm

Palliser Wines Kitchener Street, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9019 Email: palliser@palliser.co.nz Web: palliser.co.nz Visit our cellar door to taste award winning Palliser & Pencarrow wines

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Escarpment Vineyard 275 Te Muna Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 8305 E S CA R P M E N T Email: info@escarpment.co.nz Web: escarpment.co.nz Established by Larry McKenna and Robert Kirby to create tomorrow’s definitive new world Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Riesling.

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Haythornthwaite Wines 45 Omarere Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9889 Email: info@haythornthwaite.co.nz Web: haythornthwaite.co.nz Boutique family-owned vineyard located on the river terraces, offering the opportunity to taste Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer. Vineyard cottage to stay in.

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Schubert Wines 57 Cambridge Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 8505 Email: info@schubert.co.nz Web: schubert.co.nz A world search brought Kai Schubert to the Wairarapa.

The unique climate produces low yields. Internationally award winning wines with intense and complex character.

“I would go as far to say Kai & Marion make some of the most profound Pinot Noir on this planet from their tiny vineyards in Martinborough, Wairarapa.” – Curtis Marsh, The Wandering Palate, Singapore

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Te Kairanga 13 Martins Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9122 Email: cellardoor@tekairanga.co.nz Open 7 days for Wine tastings and sales.

Taste our gorgeous wines with a selection of cheeses or bring your own picnic, relax and enjoy our friendly surroundings.

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Vynfields 11 22 Omarere Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9901 Email: info@vynfields.com Web: vynfields.com Join us for delicious gourmet platters, homemade soups and wine tasting. The only certified organic and biodynamic winery in Martinborough. Taste the difference.

HAMDEN ESTATE 214 Dry River Road, Martinborough. Ph 027 4848439 Email: hamdenestate@gmail.com Visit our new cellar door on the Dry River Terraces to taste our range of white wines and Pinot Noir. We are open most weekends and public holidays or by appointment for tastings and sales.

Hudson Vineyard 815 Lake Ferry Road Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 8044 Email: peter@hudsonwine.co.nz Web: hudsonwine.co.nz Located on the site of Wharekaka, NZ’s first sheep station, is Peter and Jude Hudson’s Dry River flats vineyard.

Sales at local outlets and online, open most weekends during summer.

Julicher 15 301 Te Muna Road, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 8575 Email: info@julicher.co.nz Web: julicher.co.nz Multi award winning boutique winery producing Pinot Noir and a range of white wines from our 20 hectare vineyard.

Please phone first for tasting times.

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45 Oxford St. Ph: 06 3066377 Web: www.madltd.co.nz Delightfully inspiring art gallery and tasting room set within a gorgeous grove, producing award-winning Mad Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Our oil is well balanced, rich in colour, fresh and bursting with grassy, herbaceous characters. Available online, in store at the Martinborough Wine Centre and onsite when the open sign is up.

93 Cromarty Drive, Martinborough.

Phone: 06 306 8822 Email: ruthfg@attglobal.net From guiding star to liquid gold! Atutahi produces delicious award- winning extra virgin olive oil from its grove set in a uniquely landscaped property designed with astronomy in mind.

Open by appointment only - please call first.

9 Molive Gold

Verdale, 101 Cromarty Drive, Martinborough Ph: 06 306 8596 Email: verdale@xtra.co.nz.

Web: www.molive.co.nz Thirty awards, including five international, since we launched in 2004. Talks and tastings available most days but please phone prior to arrival. Grove is situated behind the golf course at the end of Cromarty Drive one kilometre off of the Hinakura Road.

Fantail Grove Sevilo, 179 Bidwills Cutting Road, RD 1, Greytown.

Ph: 06 304 7166 or 027 269 6428 Email: info@fantailgrove.co.nz Web: www.fantailgrove.co.nz We welcome visitors to the grove during the weekends when the OPEN sign is out - usually between 10am and 4pm. We are happy to open at other times too - please phone, text or e-mail to make an appointment. Family-run grove with single varietal oils to taste and compare, with optional grove/orchard tours. We also grow hazelnuts & table grapes so try these too, when in season.

10 Olivo 136 Hinakura Road, RD4, Martinborough. Ph: 06 306 9074 Email: helen.meehan@xtra.co.nz. Web: www.olivo.co.nz Visit the oldest commercial olive grove in Martinborough and taste our award-winning extra virgin and hand crafted infused olive oils in the purpose-built tasting room. Learn how to make good food great from the owners. Open Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Other times by appointment.

Juno Olives State Highway Tauherenikau. Ph:021 2806510 Email: info@juno-olives.co.nz.

Family owned, producing award-winning extra virgin olive oils, citrus oils and olives from our classic Mediterranean varieties.

Shop and tasting bar open weekends and public holidays. Tour groups by appointment.

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Web: www.olive2oil.co.nz Limited volumes of premium, award-winning Extra Virgin Olive Oil available at select outlets. Visit our website for detailed information and online sales. Visits currently by appointment only.

244 Daikins Rd, Carterton Ph: 04 528 7836 Extra Virgin olive oils. Grove tours/sales by appointment only.

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Oriwa 224 State Highway 53, Featherston Email: info@oriwa.co.nz Web:oriwa.co.nz Behind shelter trees and not easy to see from the highway the grove was planted in 2001. The current blend, produced from four varieties – Frantoio, Leccino, Pendilino and Piqual - has received prestigious quality certification from Olives New Zealand to signify that it has passed testing for both chemical analysis and taste excellence. Visit by appointment only.

168B Hinakura Road, Martinborough.

Ph: 06 306 8976 /021 461 640 Email: cdhadley@paradise.net.nz Award winning extra virgin olive oils, wonderfully fresh and aromatic. Grove visits welcomed - please ring first.

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Ph: 06 304 9334.

Email: odell@stonevalley.co.nz Web: stonevalley.co.nz Oils crafted the traditional way, try our award-winning Extra Virgin and infused olive oils. Superb Olive Oil soap also available.

Open by appointment - please call first.

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138 Gordon Street, Masterton Ph/Fax: 06 370 3722. W: www.rivergrove.co.nz Open seven days. Please phone first. No eftpos/credit.

Our beautiful grove lies beside the Ruamahunga River.

We offer award-winning, ONZ Certified, extra-virgin olive oils for sale.

We also have two-bedroom, self-contained accommodation available.

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Olea Estate 185, Boundary Road, Featherston Ph: 06 308 8007 Mob: 027 442 9065 Email: info@oleaestate.com Web: www.oleaestate.com Olea Naturae is a premium quality, award-winning Extra Virgin olive oil. It is grown, pressed and bottled on Olea Estate, a picturesque grove situated in the town of Featherston in South Wairarapa. Open for guided tours of the grove and olive press by appointment - please phone us first.

Elevate food to new heights.

Olivo produce a range of exceptionally fine olive oils that will send your food to a new place entirely.

citrus & herb oils table olives pickles & chutneys tapenades body products fustis and tanks

award-winning olive oil olive shop tasting bar tours welcome coach parking

1931 SH2 Greytown Wairarapa NZ Tel: 06 304 8895 or 021 280 6510 email: info@juno-olives.co.nz

Our oils are produced with meticulous care, with subtly balanced flavours. There is an exceptional Extra Virgin blend as well as delightful infused oils.

Keep a look out for them at your local speciality food emporium or visit us for an experience that will send you heavenward.

Olivo, RD4, Hinakura Road, Martinborough Visit www.olivo.co.nz for more information

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Ph: 06 379 8563E: info@gladstonevineyard.co.nz W: gladstonevineyard.co.nzThe first and foremost vineyard in Gladstone. Enjoy award-winning wine and delicious food outside by the vines or inside by the cozy fire. Cellar door open Mon - Sun 11am - 4pm, café open for lunch Fri - Sun all year round.

Johner Estate

359 Dakins Road, Gladstone.

2 Ph: 027 230 3008 06 370 8217E: johner@wise.net.nz W: johner-estate.com. One of the exciting new boutique wineries in picturesque surroundings next to the Ruamahanga River. Enjoy handcrafted Burgundy style wine in a panoramic tasting room.Open seven days 10-4.30.

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Ph: 027 230 3008 06 370 8217E: info@winecentre.co.nz W: winecentre.co.nzWine information centre and local cellar door located at Johner Estate.

Wide variety of boutique wines, olive oils, artisan produce.Special tasting events with guest vintners.Open seven days 10 - 4.30.

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Ph: 06 377 3353E: info@loopline.co.nz W:loopline.co.nz A “boutique winery” situated on the Opaki Plains justoff State Highway 2 north of Masterton. We produce handcrafted award-winning wines in our small winery.

Matahiwi Estate

286 Paierau Road, RD1, Masterton.

Ph: 06 370 1000E: jane.cooper@matahiwi.co.nz W: matahiwi.co.nzSpecialising in Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, look out for Matahiwi Estate wines throughout the region or visit our website for information and mail order.

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Ph Colin Shand: 06 377-1745 M: 027 457 2422 E: sales@paperroad.co.nz W: www.paperroad.co.nz Boutique, family owned single vineyard, winery and cellar door. Located just north of Masterton. Hand picked grapes, and handcrafted in our winery on site. Pop in to taste and purchase our award winning wines.

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Ph 06 370 1555E: wine@blairpatrick.co.nz W: blairpatrick.co.nz Small boutique Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris vineyard. Family owned and operated, this vineyard is producing a range of pinot noir, pinot gris and rose wines for your enjoyment. We look forward to seeing all visitors.

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Ph: 06 370 1935E: info@urlar.co.nz W: urlar.co.nzUrlar is a 30 hectare vineyard utilising organic and biodynamic practices. Our passion is to produce wines of structure, texture and complexity which speak of their origins.

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Frockers don’t do lycra. Florals, yes. Gingham, cotton, silk, absolutely, and a chic hat or stylish pair of gloves wouldn’t look out of place at all. Any attire that puts one in mind of a fifties tea dance than tour de France is the name of this game. That’s the point of Frocks on Bikes after all, an international organisation for people who love cycling but not necessarily the competitive culture that goes with it.

Begun in the Netherlands and initially brought to New Zealand by two keen Wellington cyclists, the Frocks on Bikes movement has regional groups across the country, supported by the Wellington ‘Mothership’. The Frockers aim to create fun, social occasions, get a bit of exercise and lure regular folk (with a penchant for fashionable attire) out of their cars and onto their bikes. ere in the Wairarapa regular events are publicised through the Frocks on Bikes website, frocksonbikes.org, and their Facebook page, Frocks on Bikes Wairarapa, and are coordinated by two enthusiastic local women, Karen Sims and Heidi Holbrook. Interest is growing and their Facebook followers now number upwards of 70.

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All the trips are made as accessible as possible, with bike trailers to starting points and marshalls along the routes. Helmets are obligatory of course and all ages and genders are welcome to the events. Lady Frockers are often joined by male partners and children, so long as they are suitably dressed... and the lycra remains in the drawer.

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February 2013 2 Martinborough Fair 3 Wharekauhau Wine and Food Society Farmers Market, 6 Interislander Summer Festival Races 6 Waitangi Day Festival 9 The Winery Tour Concert, Martinborough 10 The Winery Tour Concert, Tui Brewery, Mangatainoka 9-10 Castlepoint Superfish 2013 15-17 Ngawi Big Three fishing competition 15-17 Trust House Masterton A&P Show 16 Hurricanes vs Chiefs, Super Rugby pre-season game, 28 International Golden Shears World Championships

28th Feb – 2nd March March 2013 2 Castlepoint Beach Races 2 Martinborough Fair 3 Wharekauhau Wine & Food Society Farmers Market 9 Wairarapa Wines Harvest Festival 2011 17 Round the Vines 21-24 Trust House Balloons over Wairarapa 24 Tui Barrel Race

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