Touring in Napier
Jan. 24th, 2008 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfThe last couple of days we have wandered around the Hawke's Bay area. Yesterday we wandered around looking at the Art Deco architecture (and getting clues for a multicache) and today we went on a bus tour of wineries and a cider house. The do some nice wines here but other than a bottle of Brookfield Gewertzstraminer and a couple of late harvest reislings from Matariki Winery we didn't buy any. We're only in-country another week after all. :-)
Okay, I admit we bought a six pack of Kingston cider and a couple of bottles of Ginger Spin which is an amazing traditional cider with ginger in just the right proportion. The Filter Room, the cider house, had a choice of six tastes for $9 and I tasted six different ciders - Kingston, Ginger Spin, Ballydooly Scrumpy, Ballydooly Red Cider, Ballydooly Grannypash (an Granny Smith apple and passionfruit cider!) and Ballydooly Ballydooly cider. I liked them all but the last which had a strange aftertaste. I am going to try and bring a bottle of Ginger Spin home. I wonder if Ace would consider making something like it? Hmmm. Nah, it will never last until the next time I'm in Sebastopol. *grin*
Tomorrow we drive to Wellington and so will be out of touch until evening probably. Hopefully our hotel there will have reasonable internet and I won't be dependent on Esquires and Starbuck's.
Okay, I admit we bought a six pack of Kingston cider and a couple of bottles of Ginger Spin which is an amazing traditional cider with ginger in just the right proportion. The Filter Room, the cider house, had a choice of six tastes for $9 and I tasted six different ciders - Kingston, Ginger Spin, Ballydooly Scrumpy, Ballydooly Red Cider, Ballydooly Grannypash (an Granny Smith apple and passionfruit cider!) and Ballydooly Ballydooly cider. I liked them all but the last which had a strange aftertaste. I am going to try and bring a bottle of Ginger Spin home. I wonder if Ace would consider making something like it? Hmmm. Nah, it will never last until the next time I'm in Sebastopol. *grin*
Tomorrow we drive to Wellington and so will be out of touch until evening probably. Hopefully our hotel there will have reasonable internet and I won't be dependent on Esquires and Starbuck's.
