Isabel Vineyard recently had the honour of being invited to Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant & Culinary School located in Padstow England, where Mike Tiller was guest speaker for the evening. This was the first wine dinner held at the restaurant, Rick has always been a fan of our Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and since the dinner he has decided to include the [...]
Isabel Vineyard has announced that we will be hosting a Picnic Evening of Comedy and Live music set amongst the vines on Friday 8th February 2013 aptly named Amigos & Vinos. Comedians include: Jeremy Elwood – WINNER – “Best MC”, NZ Comedy Guild Awards Michèle A’Court – “Female Comedian of the Decade” – NZ Comedy Awards. Steve Wrigley – [...]
We had a web site enquirey this week – All the way from London requesting when our next vintage of Noble Sauvage would be ready. The reason for the enquirey was that Zudin and his wife were wanting a bottle of our very special wine to celebrate a very special occassion! THE BIRTH OF THEIR [...]
OSSO BUCO OF WILD VENISON ON with ROASTED MARLBOROUGH GARLIC Created for Isabel Vineyard by Chris Fortune SERVES 4 PEOPLE 8 LARGE PIECES OF THICKLY SLICED WILD VENISON SHANK CARROT, 1 CELREY STICK, 1 ONION 4 CLOVES GARLIC 1 T FRESH THYME 2 BAY LEAVES 1 [...]
This week we would like to introduce you to Clement Gilles Clement is a vineyard worker here at Isabel who hails from the Rhone Valley in the South of France and has been travelling New Zealand for the past 9 months. He originally started his tour of NZ in Walkworth working in hospitality, then headed south to Napier [...]
Somethin’s cooking in the kitchen… We have been baking up a storm here at Isabel this week, so we thought we would share one of the better creations from the kitchen… Wine & Chocolate made with LOVE xx HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND Ingredients 500 grams Dark Chocolate (save a little bit to drizzle tops) 1/2 cup Heavy [...]
In celebration of the first addtion to the third generation of Tiller’s at Isabel, Uncle Brad, (Brad Tiller, Vineyard Manager) decided it would be a fitting tribute to his new niece Juno, to extended our small collection of olive trees out here at the vineyard into a fully fledged grove – aptly named Juno’s Grove. It was all [...]
The family at Isabel welcomed the newest addition to a new generation here at the Vineyard. Baby Juno was born to our new wine maker-Carlos Orgiles and his partner Jane Tiller-Assistant wine maker and oldest daughter of proprietors Michael and Robyn Tiller this March. Unfortunately for Carlos, if starting his new role here at the beginning of vintage [...]
Hello followers! Brad here, the elusive Vineyard Manager/ head compost maker… We have just turned and covered our compost ready for the rain which is due this evening. Turning over is a very important aspect of making an IDEAL compost, finding the perfect balance of moisture to assist in the break down of all the [...]
On Sunday the 1st of July 2012 we decided it was time for our annual olive pick which brings us our very own estate grown, estate bottled Isabel Olive Oil. After a colder-than-usual growing season here in Marlborough, the effects were not only visible in the vineyard but felt amongst the Olive trees too, bearing much lower yields than usual.