Cityscape Summer 2020
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
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SALUTE TO THE SOURCE
Cuisine magazine for five
consecutive years, also picking up
the gong in 2015 and 2016. Select
your wine to lunch with following a
tasting at the cellar door, or leave it
to the experts with a professionally
paired suggestion from the
outstanding menu.
Fiddler’s Green Vineyard &
Bistro If you are on the hunt for a
spot to pull up a pew and while
away a couple of hours, then
Fiddler’s Green Vineyard & Bistro is
for you. With head chef Viv van
den Bosch at the helm, you can
expect a tasty combination of
European-inspired and Kiwi
favourites as well as comforting
pub-style dishes that will entice
and delight. Take your pick from
their selection of wines or indulge
in others from the surrounding
Waipara Valley.
Other wineries with cuisine
offerings include: Melton Estate
– enjoy their signature Sparkling
Riesling with a hearty antipasti
platter. Waipara Springs Winery
and Café – boutique wines
matched to a sensational menu.
Waipara Hills – fresh, seasonal
dishes that pair perfectly with their
award-winning wines.
CELLAR DOOR
IMAGE: NORTH CANTERBURY WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL
What better way to try wines than
at the source? You’ll find regular
cellar door hours at Greystone
Wines, where they also have
vineyard tours from 11:30am every
weekday, which come to an end at
their new private tasting den. Also
in Waipara is Muddy Water, where
the cellar door is in operation from
10am – 5pm daily (don’t miss their
Sugar Daddy Riesling) and Terrace
Edge Vineyard & Olive Grove, a
family-run organic vineyard whose
tasting room is open Thursday to
Sunday 11am – 4:30pm and
showcases their pinot gris and
other varieties. Torlesse Wines
opens daily from 11am – 5pm.
Connect Organise a
day out with your besties and get
along to the North Canterbury
Wine & Food Festival at Glenmark
Domain on March 8. This showcase
of the best of the Waipara region
makes for a superb day of food,
wine and music.
Further Waipara winery visits are
possible by advanced appointment
at Georges Road Wines, who are
happy for you to try their syrah,
pinot noir, pinot gris, riesling, rosé
and noble riesling; Pyramid Valley
Vineyards, who love to meet their
customers and show off some
product providing you can give
them a little bit of warning; and as
time allows at Bell Hill Vineyard
and Bishops Head. North of
Waipara you’ll find the Cheviot
tasting room of Mt. Beautiful
Wines, where you can also order
up a platter from their Two Rivers
Café (open daily) to go with
tastings of their artisan drops; and
Hanmer Springs’ Waiau River
Estate, formerly known as Marble
Point, where the cellar door is open
Friday – Monday, 10am – 4pm, and
where they’ll knock you up a tasty
cheese platter – or you can
endeavour to create your own – to
go with their multi-award winning
wines and great views over the
Waiau River Valley. In Selwyn you
can head for the ‘taste and buy’ of
Rossendale’s medal-winning drops,
open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
Take notice Give your taste-buds a new experience by
venturing outside your tried and true. Chic central-city wine bar Not
Without You serves over 70 varieties of wine and more than 30 craft
beers. With an industrial chic décor, NWY exudes quiet sophistication with
a story that is uniquely Kiwi. Head to the Arts Centre for another chance
to broaden your palate. The vino will be flowing at Cellar Door all summer
long with the opening of this new bar in the School of Art building, which
overlooks the picturesque South Quad. This laxed spot has a focus on the
tasting experience as well as celebrating the provenance and personality
that any good drop offers.
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