The Team at Felton Road

Current holder of the Guinness Book of records Longest Commute category, Nigel has been failing miserably in getting a suitable amount of time in fishing of late.  A legend in his own lunchtime, he is aiming to break the world record for numbers of Rotary Clubs addressed in a single week. Main ambition is to beat his son Hamish (age 6) at chess.

Bannockburn’s boy wonder is now seeing the approach of the first foothills of maturity. The question on everybody’s lips is will he age as well as his unoaked Chardonnays? His recent selling of the sail boat and purchase of a powerboat is not a good sign. However, the biking performance in the Mototapu Icebreaker, where he beat his physiotherapist by over an hour is encouraging. Time alone will tell.

Jane’s departure to become winemaker at Carrick left some big shoes to fill. Todd has stepped up to the mark (coming from Quartz Reef, sorry Rudi!) but we are a little concerned about his current approach to dress code. When Blair was emphasising the need for skill with the whites he was talking about the Chardonnay, but Todd seems to have taken the brief a bit too literally. Hopefully once the vintage clothing arrives and Todd runs out of bleach things will settle down.

For years everybody has been trying to find where Gareth hides the stash, since it is impossible to ever find him not grinning.  Keeping grapevines alive and any local furry edible animals dead, keeps him up long hours, while a hobby of fermenting yarrow flowers in a stag’s bladder hardly makes him the most popular man at home. It takes all sorts.

Beware: this charming and attentive host within the tasting room will be sure to post any pretentious comments you make while tasting wine on several humiliating sites on the internet. Ask for an undeserved allocation of single block wine and you may inadvertently discover why she is known in the winery as “the human claw”.

Where did she come from? What is her dark secret? So little is known about her, other than a fanatical obsession for detail, an unnerving knowledge of Health and Safety trivia and intimate familiarity with the dark and arcane corners of New Zealand employment law. Truly not a person ever to be messed with lightly.