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Travelling Harvest, Hunter Valley, NSW. AUSTRALIA.
January - February, 2014 - The best thing about the days of being a full time cellar hand, was being able to scoot off overseas for stints of harvests. A case of same same but different; grapes, familiar processes, but so different at the same time. Different people,...
Travelling Harvest, NAMIBIA
DECEMBER 2019/JANUARY 2020 - So you can pretty much fry an egg on most parts of Namibia at the moment. Which means it’s not a place very conducive to hiking canyons or climbing mountains right now. So I googled ‘winemaking Namibia,’ and discovered Thonninggii Wine...
With Belles On – backyard winemaking. Marlborough, NEW ZEALAND
To set the record straight, I am not a winemaker. But I do love to be a cellar hand and drag hoses all day. A true blue ‘cellar rat,’ up to my eyeballs in grape skins and muck, dragging hoses flat out and hooning around the winery - especially at harvest time. So, I...
Hempies du Toit, Annandale Winery. Cape Region, SOUTH AFRICA
October 6, 2019. Where patience meets passion. Annandale Wine Estate, a stone’s throw from Stellenbosch where the mountains and rugged ridge lines rule, and where Hempies du Toit lives, the man behind the liquid gold in the Annandale bottles that epitomize what can...
Travelling Harvest, ZIMBABWE
January - March 2019 - These words are a reflection thorough the eyes of a Kiwi eager for Africa. A gigantic thank you to everyone at Bushman Rock for making me feel so at home. My dad has told me many tales about exploring the mighty Zimbabwean bush, now I’ve had my...
Travelling Harvest, WA. AUSTRALIA
January 2018 - Managed to escape corporate wine office life for three weeks and get my harvest hands back - this time with Houghton Wines in Swan Valley, Western Australia. I learned my way around some excellent chardonnay, and had the treat of visiting vineyards a...
Travelling Harvest, Arizona USA.
July - October 2015 - Making wine in the desert? - Totally yes. A blurb below, and many more words about Arizona and wine life in general on http://annabellelatz.blogspot.co.nz/ October 16, 2015 No James I’m sorry I never did master what direction North was.... no...
published articles
The Grape Outdoors
Country Wide Magazine, March 2020. On the back of a wonderful winemaking harvest in Zimbabwe at the beginning of 2019, Annabelle Latz was drawn to Thonninggii Wine Cellars, in central north Namibia near Etosha National Park. Owned by the Boshoff family, Thonninggii,...
Winemaking, Zimbabwe. AFRICA
Country Wide Magazine, June 2019.
Winemaking, Arizona. USA
Say Yes To Adventure Magazine, February 2016.