Bruce Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Just checking if there is anybody from "The Fishroom" coming to Napier for the FNZAS conference this year.????????? Would be nice to put a face to the name :lol: If you want any info about the conference jsu ask either myself or Warren C U There /Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Hi Bruce, Im going. Its probably not much of a surprise, - I'm one of the organisers, oh, so are you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Grant and I are coming!! We have our club meeting tomorrow night to find out if anyone else is joining us and to fill out the registration forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 I'll be there. Really looking foward to it - provided I don't have to share with a snorer . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Folks, I'll be there, arriving Friday night. Peter Sebborn will be too since I'll be hitching a ride with him We'll both be observers. I can say that Jan Payne and Rowan Lee will be delegates for PNAS. I expect that there will be a few other observers from PNAS too, since the club has lots of new keen members. Alan Wakelin and (I think) Jane McCarthey will be delegates for NZKA. Looking forward to what should be an interesting weekend. Wine? Who mentioned wine? Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 Good to hear Jan and Rowan are coming this year. I haven't seen either of them for some years now and it will be good to catch up with them. I am sure there will be plenty of wine for you Andrew as Napier keeps trying to tell everyone they are the best wine district in NZ. They can never compete with Marlborough but they can continue to kid themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 Caryl said... > I am sure there will be plenty of wine for you Andrew as Napier > keeps trying to tell everyone they are the best wine district in NZ. > They can never compete with Marlborough but they can continue > to kid themselves. I expect I'll cope. You could always bring some of your local produce so we could compare Actually, I've had nice wines from both areas. Generally the kinds of things I've been drinking lately have come from the south or Martinborough (lots of Pinot Noir etc) although I've had some nice Cab Savs/Merlot/Malbec blends from the Hawkes Bay too. When I was drinking more whites, most of the preferred ones were from Marlborough. I couldn't get over the amount of new land converted to grapes when I was in the Hawkes Bay over Easter after not being there for the best part of a year. I have plans to visit the Alpha Domus winery after conference since it's owned by a family I know (one of whom was an old PNAS member actually). Since spending some time Western Australia last year, I've been converted to Shiraz... Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted April 20, 2002 Report Share Posted April 20, 2002 Since Grant and I are both non drinkers we couldn't tell one from another but you will be able to compare them at conference 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Posted April 22, 2002 Report Share Posted April 22, 2002 Hi Caryl, How many vineyards has Malborough got? (Are you sure Malboroughites are not kidding themselves). Hawkes Bay is doing pretty well with the awards and certainly has a lot of quality wineries. I rememer 10 years ago when you could go on a wine tour and it would only take 1 day (about 10 wineries open to the public). Now it takes 5 days (if you are that keen) with 47 wineries on our current visit list (there are over double that many in total). Some of them require a 'Gold Card' however! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted April 23, 2002 Report Share Posted April 23, 2002 At last count I think there were about 56 wineries in Marlborough but new ones seem to open every day. The landscape is getting pretty boring - miles and miles of grape vines. All the fruit trees are being ripped out to make way for grapes. We used to have a diverse base but now, if the wine industry ever falls over (disease, teetotallers taking over the world, prohibition brought in, or something wipe out the vines) we will have nothing. No more cherries, apricots, apples, blueberries, peaches etc etc etc but olives are becoming more popular. Our virgin olive oil has got rave reviews overseas apparently. How do they know if the olives are virgins? We also have several breweries. Perhaps if the brine shrimp experiment works out, one of our major exports will be brine shrimp eggs! See you at conference (assuming Grant is well enough to travel then). I think he could find his way to Hutt Hospital blindfolded by now! Helen, a Kapi-Mana fish member, has been kind enough each time to pick him/us up off the ferry and get him/us to the hospital each time. Unfortunately, we never have enough time between ferries to visit any fish shops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Posted April 23, 2002 Report Share Posted April 23, 2002 Even though we are drifting off topic a bit, I remember the same thing happening with kiwifruit about 12 years ago in Tauranga!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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