Winery takings up 43 percent
Despite the odd Easter trading restrictions Avalon blogged about a few days ago, it appears to have been a bumper weekend for the Wineries around NZ. Paymark today released figures, that show a 43% increase in $$ spent at wineries over the four day weekend this year, compared with last year. How many actual $$ that 43% represents isn’t recorded.
We took some friends round a few wineries on Easter Monday, four out of the 34+ we have within a 15 minute drive of where we live. (and some people wonder why we live ‘out in the sticks’ of the Wairarapa!)
Four cases of wine and one designated driver later, we’d had a thorougherly enjoyable day. I just hope we weren’t the 43% increase!
Related posts:
- Public Holidays New Zealand 2011
- Anniversary Weekends in New Zealand – I’m off to the beach.
- New Zealand’s Bizarre Easter Trading Laws
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Hubby on
Sun, 19th Apr 2009 9:00 pm
As someone was asking, straight line distance to our nearest winery, 2.4km. Next nearest is 3.2km.
In true Monty Python style they’re both, across the fields, through some tree’s, over the river, across more fields, through a wood around a pond – and we’re there.
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