Chard Farm
Clifftop vineyard and cellar door above the Kawarau gorge, reached by a dramatic narrow track.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Chard Farm in Queenstown's Gibbston Valley goes back to the late nineteen-eighties, when a young winemaker fresh from Germany found a failing orchard on a ledge above the Kawarau River. It follows Rob Hay, his family and the locals who dug in the first vines, and the sceptics in the pub and the press who had opinions about it. Best heard glass in hand, at the edge looking down into the gorge.
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