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Article: Back-breaking work leads to Church Road
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- The Press
- Article date:
- April 4, 2006
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With good food there should always be good wine, and Church Road
has long been considered, nationally and internationally, as very
good wine indeed.
This multi-award winning winery, one of the oldest in the country,
was founded by an eager Luxembourg immigrant, Bartholomew Seinmetz,
who drove the first stake in the soil in Hawkes Bay in 1897 and
started realising his dream of producing fine wine.
If Seinmetz's instincts in starting his winery were good, his
decision in 1922 to employ a 14-year-old boy as his assistant were
even better.
That boy, Tom McDonald, was to cement the Church Road name in the
annals of New Zealand's winemaking.
As the founding father of quality red winemaking in ...