Martinborough-Vynfields Villa

We're in the heart of Pinot Noir country staying at Vynfields Villa, a beautiful 100+ year old house. Vynfields is a nearby winery and they have accomodations on the premises and at this villa closer to the center of town. The house is incredible, with high ceilings, planked wood floors, antiques, luxurious linens, and fresh cut flowers in every room. They provided us with a bowl of fresh fruit, a baguette, bacon, eggs, milk, fresh cut herbs, and coffee. The house is surrounded by manicured gardens full of flowers, herbs, an 80 year old lemon tree, and a view of sheep across the street. It's a 2-bedroom house with living room, large kitchen, bathroom with clawfoot tub and a separate shower and a separate set of rooms adjacent to the garage.

Brian just collected some fresh herbs, lemons, and fava beans from the garden for dinner. He's in heaven!

Today we slept late, then made breakfast here: Espresso in the French Press--caffeine all the way! There's definitely a scarcity of decaf in New Zealand--we didn't see any decaf options in the local grocer even. For breakfast Brian fried up some bacon (we we Americans call Canadian bacon is known as bacon here--vs. crispy streaky bacon). We had toast made of fresh walnut rye along with strawberries, pears and kiwi. Brian scrambled some eggs with fresh parsley and thyme.

We slowly made our way to the village, then went to Schubert for a tasting.