IN YOUR OWN BACK VINEYARD-Avenues Magazine

In Manuela Gansser’s famed cookbook Autumn in Piemonte, she lists the best places in the world to grow food and wine. 

“Some of the richest agricultural land in the world is to be found where plains spread out below mountain ranges.” Her examples are Piedmont, California, and Canterbury, New Zealand! There aren’t many places in the world that produce wine, truffles, porcini, and other food of such intensity as these. 

Yet here is Canterbury as one of the deluxe regions, sparkling in the spring sunshine. 

Most of New Zealand’s wine production heads overseas each year, but the Covid pandemic has left us wineries unable to travel to foreign markets to sell our wine. At the same time, most Canterbury wineries produce top wines aimed at the premium sector, so the shutdown of many of the world’s best restaurants have hit them harder than those multinationals who supply only supermarket wine. 

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