There are powerful distractions when sampling wine at The Canyon, the seductive wave-shaped black timber tasting room at Tarras Vineyards. While savouring its award-winning pinot noir, admire how its curves echo the backdrop of the muscular Central Otago mountains, framing a wide green canyon below. And then reflect on how the wine in your glass is also a liquid window into inspirational indigenous values.
Tarras is a founding member of TUKU, the world’s first Maori winemakers collective, whose ethos weaves an underlay of ancient native values about land, family and hospitality into the process of making ravishing wine in ravishing landscapes.
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