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Speaker 1: So if you're into wine and into awards, then the

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Speaker 1: ones you want are the Decanta World Wine Awards of

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Speaker 1: course in Craigie Range and the Martin brou Pin and

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Speaker 1: Wire has taken home Best in Show. That would put

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Speaker 1: it in the top zero zero point three percent of

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Speaker 1: ale wines in the world. Now Ben Times is the

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Speaker 1: cheap wine maker at Craigie Range and as well, there's

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Speaker 1: been very good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Not at all and can warmers. Congratulations. Now, without getting

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Speaker 1: into the weeds too much, I know you make a

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Speaker 1: number of pen and was Is this your Tamuna Road

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Speaker 1: pen and noir? And is it your Tamuna Road Arrowha

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Speaker 1: pen and no War.

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Speaker 2: No, this is actually Martinboough Pin and Wi which is

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Speaker 2: actually an entry level it's our first pin and Whi

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Speaker 2: to be bottled out of twenty twenty four vintage. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's an incredible achievement.

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Speaker 1: Does it taste like something that would win when you

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Speaker 1: sent it off?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we knew there was something pretty special coming

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Speaker 2: out of the twenty twenty four vintage. Yeah, it just

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Speaker 2: shows this unique kind of provenance to Martinborough. But it's

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Speaker 2: ultimately just delicious. So yeah, we knew we had something pretty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four seemed to be a good vintage around the

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Speaker 1: whole country. Is that fair or you're not across the

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Speaker 1: whole country?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, No, it was a great vintage throughout New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Fortunately we had a pretty dry spell throughout the summer

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Speaker 2: in autumn, so got like a really long hangtime to

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Speaker 2: develop lots of concentration. So you had the stunner for

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, which is I think evidence in those you know,

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Speaker 2: three hundred and three medals that were awarded to New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a great achievement for the country.

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Speaker 1: When you're tasting a peanut, it's somewhere like those awards given.

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Speaker 1: I mean twenty twenty four. Would you drink a twenty

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Speaker 1: oh you put it away for a year or two?

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Speaker 1: Can you taste what are they tasting? What can be

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Speaker 1: or what it is?

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Speaker 2: It's a mixture of both actually, So they do like

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Speaker 2: to see there's some age worthiness and the longevity in

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Speaker 2: these wines, but ultimately it has to be delicious on

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Speaker 2: the day of tasting. And yeah, with this Peno and mine,

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Speaker 2: like we want that to be approachable and ready to

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Speaker 2: drink from when it's released, which is now, so from.

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Speaker 1: Hawk's Bay Company, which is what you are. How much

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Speaker 1: of your wine's made out of the region, out of

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Speaker 1: the Bay.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually it's about or less than fifty percent. So

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Speaker 2: most of our identity is down in Marsborough. Now is

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Speaker 2: that's where our Sevion blanc comes from? And also so yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a huge.

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Speaker 1: Part of our Martin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, a bit of a pudding difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see, Mark. My problem is I'm a

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Speaker 1: massive wine fan, bin, but I don't drink white wine

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 2: And oh, we've got to give you a bottle, Mite.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't want a bottle. I'm just thinking that

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Speaker 1: Martin Brough as a profiles. I mean, so the last

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Speaker 1: time I drank white wine was I drink of obviously

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Speaker 1: Marlborough serving you on blanc, and I never like the

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Speaker 1: Hawk's Bay serving tastes completely different. What does Martin but

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Speaker 1: taste like in comparison to those two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually it's actually a lot cooler than than

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Speaker 2: Marlborough despite being further north. But it's not as like

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Speaker 2: obvious as sort of grassy or capsican or sort of

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Speaker 2: herbal is probably the two. It's actually more like when

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Speaker 2: it's greener, actually more more greenish citrus, more that sort

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Speaker 2: of uzu spectrum. So it's really fresh and really salty.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's got thicker skins from more wind there

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Speaker 2: as well. So yeah, it's quite quite a salivating sevyon

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Speaker 2: blanc because it's as opposed to something quite.

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Speaker 1: Obvious good description. People think you're a wine maker, the

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Speaker 1: Peen and NOI that you've won with. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you have the product because presumably people are going to

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Speaker 1: want to put all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah we do. It's available in most good wine

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Speaker 2: stores throughout New Zealand and it's actually one that we

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Speaker 2: do stock in some supermarkets too, so it's available at

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Speaker 2: the moment just sort of wild stock class.

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Speaker 1: I guess, good on you. Well, congratulations, it's the big

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Speaker 1: one to canter Wine Awards. You if you want something

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Speaker 1: really special from Craigie range is not an ad. Sophia

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Speaker 1: is my favorite wine of all time. It was the Quarry,

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Speaker 1: but then it's Sofia. It is Sofia. Now I will

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Speaker 1: probably go to my grave with a bottle of Sofia

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Speaker 1: just saying I do feel better. Actually, I talked about wine.

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Speaker 1: Lifted myself up a little bit.

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