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Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

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Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

I hope to get in a couple of tastings of Central Pinot Noir in the next few weeks as a sort of precursor to heading up to Bannockburn for harvest myself for a few days.

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The view from up there

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The view from up there

Saddle Hill normally just sits there, taunting us, playing hard to get. It seems to find it more comfortable to be pined after and unattainable, than to deign to the indignity of openness.

Fountain once part of South Seas exhibition

The Woolf Harris Fountain can be found at the Dunedin Botanic Garden. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Fountain once part of South Seas exhibition

The 1925-1926 New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a major event for Dunedin and the Dunedin Botanic Garden.

Value the darkness before it goes

Satellite stitch their lines across a gentle aurora above Middlemarch. PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN

Value the darkness before it goes

A confession: I am not, by nature, a political animal. I prefer my debates to be settled by photons rather than policy.

Chaste fish doing fine

Amazon molly, all clones of each other. PHOTO: DAVID BIERBACH

Chaste fish doing fine

Ground-breaking research was recently published on the longevity and genetic integrity of the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a clonal, parthenogenetic fish that defies the expectations of...

Ancient warning of climate calamity

Lidar has stripped away the forest to reveal Angkor as it was. In the centre is the city visited...

Ancient warning of climate calamity

I always read what Gwynne Dyer has to say. Recently, it was a sobering account of how the Trump regime has decimated the American National Centre for Atmospheric Research.

A long walk hailed

‘‘After 20km of relentless uphill walking, we see the road stretching ahead in an apparently...

A long walk hailed

Dunedin-born avid walker Jennifer Andrewes took up long-distance walking when diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s in 2019 and in 2024 walked the 2400km Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome.