I have had a chance to settle in, and am feeling a lot better now then when I arrived. We headed into town to do some sheet shopping and get banking and tax needs taken care of (I now have a NZ bank account, so no more US fees!), and also did some wine tasting at some of the cellar doors on Monday (the NZ term for tasting room). We popped into Fromm, Cloudy Bay, St. Claire, Yealands (of course) and Grove Mill. All the fruit was from Marlborough for all wines tasted with the exception of a little Otago fruit in a Pinot. Some of my favorite wines tasted were LaStrada Syrah (produced by Fromm), Chardonnay from Grove Mill, Viogner and Pinot Gris from Yealands, and Cloudy Bay had a very nice lineup, including some killer botrytis infected late harvest Reisling and Gewurtz. I also really liked their Chardonnay... Maybe on the next day off we will hit some more up, that is if we have the energy.
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