In an ocean of sauvignon blanc, Framingham specialises in… riesling. The cellar door is open seven days a week. Don't miss: The riesling, obviously framingham. Hans and Therese Herzog ran a winery and Michelin-starred restaurant in their native Switzerland before buying a parcel of land in Marlborough in the early Nineties. Their New Zealand fine dining restaurant, set among the vines, is now a destination in its own right, and a magnet for wine professionals from around the world.
Hans is known for his obsession with grape varieties: he cultivates around 30 on the small estate, and can often be seen tending them. You can also drop by for a tasting or book a vineyard tour must be arranged in advance.
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Don't miss: A visit to Herzog is a chance to experiment. Take your pick herzog.
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The first commercial plantings of sauvignon blanc in Marlborough were put in the ground by Brancott Estate formerly Montana in the early Seventies. Of course Brancott Estate is now a huge international brand and the cellar door and restaurant here is a good place to see how much has changed: look through the plate-glass windows and all you can see is row upon row of bright green vines, stretching to the horizon. Book a minute history lesson and tutored terroir tasting; a vineyard cycle tour; a helicopter flight and educational wine tasting; a falcon encounter; or call into the restaurant for a bite.
Don't miss: Soak up the history and alongside your glass of sauvignon blanc, try one of the more nettley sauvignon gris — a colour mutation of sauvignon blanc brancottestate. The pinot noir made by Nautilus is superb — floral but also savoury and serious. Don't miss: The pinot noir, but also the sparkling wine, made in the same way as champagne, using a blend of 70 per cent pinot and 30 per cent chardonnay nautilusestate.
Next month: a guide to Napa Valley, California. Victoria Moore flew with Air New Zealand airnewzealand. In the Sounds, Raetihi Lodge raetihilodge. Or do what the locals do, and stay in a bach bookabach. The Hop on, Hop off bus service carries passengers between Blenheim and Picton for the Sounds and also around the main vineyard area.
Download a map to plan your route escapetomarlborough. Arbour Restaurant arbour. Sixty-nine adzes were found at Wairau Bar, of which only three were made of greenstone. Eighty small, one-piece, triangular, stone or bone fishing lures with lashed unbarbed hook were found. In a more modern analysis by Buckley et al found the skeletons had a wide range of estimated ages. The oldest was 39 and the second oldest was Most of the skeletons were from people aged in their 20s. No children and only 1 teenager's skeleton was found. This is consistent with younger people being buried elsewhere, a practice that was quite common in the South Pacific.
There was only one child's skeleton. The 21 skeletons with teeth all exhibited some developmental enamel disorders, showing they had suffered long stressful periods during childhood but survived to reasonably healthy adulthood. Tooth decay was rare, especially amongst males a similar trait to neolithic people of the Americas North American Indians. Many of the skeletons showed multiple signs of stress such as Harris lines on X-rays of long bones such as the tibia caused by either infection or a poor diet.
Tooth wear was substantial among older individuals, with teeth worn to the roots, but this did not seem to be due to bracken fern root chewing. All the adults showed healed bone fractures, indicating a well-balanced diet and a supportive community structure.
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Several skeletons showed features that are interpreted as being caused by tuberculosis TB. Anaemia was common, as was arthritis. These figures show the early colonisers were tall compared to most Polynesians. The archaeological layers were shallow. The later — study, using more precise modern methods, resulted in the site being more accurately dated by the radiocarbon method to — CE. The site appeared to be occupied twice over a period of about 20 years, which is consistent with information from other early Polynesian colonisation sites in New Zealand.
Accurate dates were obtained from moa egg fragments found in grave and midden sites.
Buried with the skeletons were moa bone reel necklaces , whole moa eggs used as water carriers , argillite adze heads, carved serpentine that looked like shark and whale teeth, harpoon heads and tattoo chisels. Few nephrite jade or greenstone artefacts were found. It is believed the site was primarily a factory for making stone adze heads. It has been estimated from the adze heads found and the large area of stone flakes that about 12, adze heads were made here or about to per year. Argillite, the most common adze head material is hard, compressed mudstone.
A Maori argillite quarry is located in the hills behind Nelson City.
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Such large numbers of adze heads have implications about trade in the early archaic period. One adze found in the study has been identified by archaeologist Richard Walter as Tahanga basalt from Tahanga Hill near Opito, a well known moahunter area. It was of quadrangular shape known as Type 1 , identical in design to those use in the Cook Island at the same time.
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Also found were chert from Kaikoura, which was commonly used for making holes, pumice from the volcanic plateau,which was used as floats and for making small handheld fire bowls and small amounts of greenstone from the West Coast which was made into two adze heads. This indicates that the Wairau Bar moa hunters travelled extensively through New Zealand exploring the land. Adze heads are associated with shaping wood, especially in the making of waka. The stone head was lashed to an L-shaped natural crook and swung so the blade struck the wood more or less horizontally.
An investigation by a team from Otago University found a huge stone-lined umu or hangi pit earth oven 1. However these large hangi or umu pits were identified in in the Kermadecs by Roger Duff, as being typical Polynesian umu ti. The purpose of the large pit was to cook the taproot of the ti plant. This was a common method of reducing the tuberous root to a sugary pulp.
The ti can be cultivated easily but is slow growing.
The plant is usually associated with the far north of New Zealand but may have been grown further south during the warmer climatic period associated with early Polynesian settlement. A geophysics study showed that it was only one of six such pits in a rough horseshoe shape on the edge of a lagoon.
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The study also showed the site to be much bigger than previously thought—at least 11 hectares 27 acres and possibly larger as two boundaries have not been accurately plotted. These people are believed to be moa hunters who lived their lives in New Zealand, based on bone and teeth DNA analysis. The earliest zone was alongside the lagoon and the latter on the ocean side of the island. At the time of the second occupation of the island, the second site was protected from the ocean by a long and narrow boulder bank.
There are two adze-making sites—one adjacent to the early occupation zone and the second adjacent to the later burial site.