We haven’t been to the south island yet, so the jury’s still out, but right now Waiheke Island is the top runner for where I’m going to live when I move here. It’s about a 30-45 minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland and it’s an island full of wineries (and one microbrewery!). And it’s beautiful. We stayed at the Kenney Point guesthouse, which was really nice and did a full day of wine/brewery tours.
The view from our guesthouse :)
KP definitely had the best wine of the day. Peacock Sky had this woman, Connie, who does food and wine pairings as part of the tasting, though rather poorly. She’s pretty cocky about it though, and seems to harbor some level of resentment towards her husband for turning her from an MBA to a farmer. The brews at Wild on Waiheke weren’t great, but weren’t bad either. I had fun hanging with Alan, the brewer, and he invited me back to come visit his home brewery where he apparently has 10 beers on tap at all times. !!! How? It must be quite the homebrew system. So I plan on doing that when we return to Auckland towards the end of March.
Next up we headed over to Devonport, a northern suburb of Auckland, for the food and wine festival there. It was really fun! We got to sample some great wines (my favorite was Omaha Bay) and we met some really great folks, including a woman who tried out to be a hobbit (she’s still waiting to hear) and a woman called Bucky (I, of course, told her all about Bucky Badger and she was pretty excited to have such a baller mascot sharing her name).
JR and the hobbit
Good time overall and only the top of my head got burnt!
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