Mudbrick Vineyard and Restaurant

This guide to Mudbrick Vineyard and Restaurant on Waiheke Island follows two accountants, Robyn and Nicholas Jones, who bought a sun-scorched paddock in 1992 with no farming experience and lost most of what they planted in the first year. You'll hear how they built a mud-brick house purely for its looks, then discovered by accident that its thick walls made a perfect wine cellar, and how a family cafe grew almost by whim into a restaurant drawing visitors from across the world. Listen for Robyn's own account of her early days waiting tables.