Marlborough's Most Exclusive Weekend
* 300 wine lovers, 189 wines, 36 wineries, 4 live acts, 3 valleys, 2 lunches, 2 celebrity chefs, 2 gourmet dinners, and
a cruise with brunch!
* Limited tickets have now gone on sale for this new exclusive event which will be held in Marlborough from the 26th to
28th October, 2007.
Spread over three days in various beautiful locations around Marlborough, the Marlborough Wine Weekend comprises a host
of educational and enjoyable events including sub-regional tastings in the various Marlborough valleys, a gourmet gala
dinner with beautifully matched Marlborough wines, a "Supper Club" dinner with live jazz and the opportunity to chat to
winemakers in a relaxed environment, and a programme of great entertainment from some top local performers.
Speakers and panellists include Ralph Kyte-Powell, Bob Campbell MW, Stephen Bennett MW, Larry McKenna, Peter McCombie
MW, Brian Bicknell and Jeff Clarke.
But it is not all serious education. In the evenings, entertainment will be provided by Sarah Brown, Twinset and Little
T, and delicious cuisine will be cooked up by Wellingtonian Martin Bosley and Marlborough's own farmers' market guru
Chris Fortune.
"I just can't believe the programme we've got lined up" says Wine Marlborough's Marketing Manager, Tom Trolove. "We've
been tossing around the idea of a prestigious event to highlight Marlborough's great wines for some time now, but if
you'd asked me six months ago, I would never have believed we could cram such an exciting schedule into just three
days."
Wine Marlborough Chairman Blair Gibbs, agrees: "This is going to be a fantastic event which will appeal to wine loving
consumers and the wine trade alike, and will really highlight the best of Marlborough and its wines. If you wanted to
experience some of New Zealand's gastronomic and vinous highlights you couldn't find a better place to start than with
this event."
The following wineries are participating in the event:
1. Allan Scott
2. Astrolabe
3. Auntsfield
4. Bouldevines
5. Cape Campbell
6. Charles Wiffen
7. Cloudy Bay
8. Dog Point Vineyard
9. Forrest Estate
10. Fromm Winery
11. Grove Mill
12. Herzog
13. Highfield Estate
14. Huia
15. Hunters Wines
16. Isabel Estate Vineyard
17. Saint Clair
18. Lawson's Dry Hills
19. Mahi Wines
20. Nautilus Estate
21. No1 Family Estate
22. Nobilo Wine Group
23. Pernod Ricard (Montana)
24. Pyramid Valley Vineyards
25. Rock Ferry Wines
26. Sentinel Vineyard
27. Seresin
28. Spy Valley Wines
29. Staete Landt
30. Summerhouse
31. Te Whare Ra
32. Vavasour
33. Villa Maria
34. Wairau River Wines
35. Wither Hills
36. Whitehaven
Tickets are available from www.ticketdirect.co.nz, $565+GST pp. For more information go to www.wine-marlborough.co.nz
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