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Speaker 1: Good news for hospital and Central O Tiger. If you've

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Speaker 1: missed this one, probably the whole country got Good Food

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Speaker 1: and Wine's Global Taste Maker Awards. They've named Queenstown's Ammersfield

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Speaker 1: as the third best in the world. A beacon I quote,

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Speaker 1: a beacon for wine enthusiasts world whye who seek an

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Speaker 1: unparalleled dining experience, is how the judge put it. Msfield,

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Speaker 1: executive Chef of Vaughan. Maybe he's with us born Very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: What do Mike? How are you matte?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Indeed, do you realize at the time you're

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Speaker 1: being judged and these are people there for any sort

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Speaker 1: of aventors it all sort of blind tasting.

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Speaker 2: Do you realize when you're being judged?

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Speaker 1: You mean, yeah, do they come there and go where

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Speaker 1: the judge is from the magazine or the awards committee,

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Speaker 1: you know, or do they do it secretly like Michelin.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes you pick up judges some of the awards

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Speaker 2: that were involved in You're clueless, you know, and you

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Speaker 2: just kind of play the game of trying to give

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Speaker 2: everyone on the same experience and put consistency out.

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Speaker 1: There, you know, fantastic. Would you have rated yourself as

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Speaker 1: highly as this, I mean, third best in the world

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Speaker 1: is really quite something, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty huge. I Mean what I can

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Speaker 2: say is that we have a you know, super passionate

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Speaker 2: team there that is always striving to improve and just

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Speaker 2: get better and give our guests an amazing experience. We

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Speaker 2: try to show them the beauty and the bounty of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and our difference through our food and our wine.

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Speaker 1: Does it and I know you're biased, does the food

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Speaker 1: speak for itself or does the whole environment add to it?

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Speaker 1: By the time you get into that beautiful restaurant, in

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Speaker 1: the beautiful surroundings, it all adds up to a piece

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Speaker 1: of magic.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's the whole thing, you know. It's the place,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's the longevity of the restaurant with the

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Speaker 2: amazing team. It's the food, it's the beautiful organic wine

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Speaker 2: from our vineyard. It's all combined into one story of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand that's unique and people are loving it, you know.

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Speaker 1: And you're on the shoulder season now, is it still

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Speaker 1: busy in your area?

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Speaker 2: It always tapes off a little bit, and I mean,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, that's kind of good for our team

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Speaker 2: just to get like a tiny little bit where we're

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Speaker 2: not getting bombarded every day after day, you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's the kind of little luxury of living in a

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Speaker 2: beautiful town like Queens.

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Speaker 1: Sound good on your quick word on the vintage? Was

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Speaker 1: it good this season? The grapes will be ina? Is

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Speaker 1: everyone fizzing?

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Speaker 2: Hey? Listen, my team in the restaurant from the front

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Speaker 2: and in the kitchen, we're out there picking grapes, helping

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Speaker 2: the team over at the vineyard and the peace Arrange.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's looking like an amazing year. We

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Speaker 2: even had the owner, John Darby out there looking around

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Speaker 2: yesterday and it looks like from what he sees that

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Speaker 2: it's going to be an amazing year.

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Speaker 1: Good one you're born will go well with it and

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Speaker 1: warmness congratulations are putting New Zealand on the map and

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Speaker 1: helping the tourism industry. Born maybe who's the Ammersfield executive shift?

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