Plan your summer adventure around Island gin, whisky and more
Author of the article: Joanne Sasvari
Publishing date: Jul 14, 2021 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read • Pacific Rim Distilling s Luke Erridge displays the locally foraged Nootka roses that perfume his Lighthouse Gin. Photo by Joanne Sasvari /PNG
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There’s something in the water over on Vancouver Island, and chances are it’s a locally foraged gin. Or maybe a barrel-aged single malt. Or perhaps a handcrafted vermouth.
Disruption of key hospitality channels in the US dropped wine sales.
NZX- listed Foley Wines says Covid-19 disrupting key sales channels and global logistics issues are to blame for a 5.8% half-year profit drop.
The winemaker wholly owns Martinborough Vineyard and Te Kairanga and the Lighthouse Gin brand in Martinborough; Grove Mill and Vavasour in Marlborough; and Mt Difficulty in Central Otago and is named after its majority shareholder, American businessman and vineyard owner Bill Foley.
He began building Foley Wines in 2009 with the purchases of Vavasour and Goldwater wineries.
Profit for the six months to December 31 was $2.57m, down 5.8%. Revenue was down just 2% to $28.3m.
How luxury lodge Wharekauhau Country Estate kept going during lockdown
24 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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One of New Zealand s most luxurious lodges halved room rates and redeployed staff to vineyards owned by an associated NZX listed business during the national lockdown. Richard Rooney, general manager of South Wairarapa s Wharekauhau Country Estate, told how covid and the alert level 4 sank lodge bookings earlier this year so an alternative plan was swung into action to save staff jobs. I really want to emphasise that we managed to keep all our staff. Not only that but we actually hired more people as domestic demand outstripped our expectations, Rooney said.