Meet Diana

We started the application process for our alcohol license back in February thinking it would only take a couple of months, based on our in-depth research and conversations.  Turns out, that wasn’t quite the way things worked out.  Despite not owning a winery or planning to sell our wine through a physical tasting room, we…

This is the presentation from June 3rd. We didn’t stick to this presentation at all and ended up catching up and chatting broadly about wine instead.

Gatekeepers, capital expenses, and stubborn conventions of “what is a winemaker?”  Digging into why the classic winemaker image of a man drinking wine in front of a vineyard is unrealistic, unattainable, and an image that needs to be modernized to fit what winemakers actually look like today. Diana’s pretty passionate about this and we will…

Soooo many kiwi wines never make it out of Aotearoa and it’s heartbreaking that these stunning wines don’t make it stateside!

In our last video, we talked about how we’ve decided to export our wines into the USA and why that decision made sense from an environmental, financial, and long-term perspective. This video details the other factors that also went into our decision to make wine in 2022 vs. this year.  In short, we weren’t going…

To start a business you need a few basic things like an email address, website, and, depending on your marketing strategy, a social media account.  Sounds straight forward right? It is until you realize that the website builder isn’t compatible with the online store you want to use, or the online store you want to…