Gibbston Valley Winery & Restaurant
Pioneering Central Otago vineyard with a cellar door, restaurant and a barrel cave cut into schist.
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This guide to Gibbston Valley Winery near Queenstown goes back to the nineteen seventies, when Central Otago was sheep country and the experts had already decided what could and could not grow here. It follows an Irishman named Alan Brady, a notebook of temperature readings, and a small experimental plot planted with friends. Later it turns to the mountain beside you and the explosives that went into it.
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