Jane´s Hunter Pinot Noir

I tasted this wine one week ago, at a dinner in Langan´s Brasserie (Straton Street, London UK). And I was lucky because I tasted both, the red and the white one...Great!


If New Zealand wines can be summed up as elegant, feisty, zestful, generous and top quality, then Jane Hunter is a wonderful ambassador for her adopted country, mirroring all these qualities and making wines to match. Yet she nearly did not go into viticulture at all, having specialised in animal husbandry at university in Australia. Her practical work found her in the middle of nowhere in south-west Australia and she realised that this was not the life for her, and switched to viticulture in her final year. “ I didn’t drink wine until I was 23 or 24; all the other students were a rather raucous lot. My interest is growing grapes but I think I have got a commercial palate and I can pick out what customers will like,” she explains modestly. These skills are what have made Hunter’s Wines one of her adopted country’s most successful wineries, putting it on a world stage, winning countless medals and awards. A relative newcomer in wine-making terms, New Zealand has come to be regarded as among the best for what it does well. Although some Kiwi vineyards are owned by big multinational corporations, many more fit the boutique winery category, small or medium-sized, and these are, in the main, the ones that have put New Zealand on the world wine map, none more so than Hunter’s Wines.

Jane and her late husband Ernie planted their first vines in the Wairau Valley on South Island in 1979. They won their first awards in 1986 at the Sunday Times Wine Festival – the first time a New Zealand wine had won anything, she recalls, where it was wine of the show. Since then the international prizes, trophies and accolades have just kept coming. Only a few years after making their debut wines, Ernie was tragically killed in a motor accident and from 1987 Jane became owner, viticulturist and managing director of Hunter’s Wines. Never in any doubt that she would carry on developing the vineyard and new wines, she says its success is due to the work of her team, which includes wine consultant Tony Jordan and chief wine maker Gary Duke.

Aeropuerto de Zurich

Welcome to Zurich Airport from Andy Rüesch on Vimeo.

En este video se plasma toda la actividad llevada a cabo en un aeropuerto, en este caso el de Zurich.

Es increible ver como aterrizan aviones a la vez que despegan otros, con origen y destino en los más variados puntos del globo, de las más variadas nacionalidades y como se llevan a cabo todas las operaciones relacionadas de handling, catering y tráfico de miles de pasajeros.

En algunos casos parece un video promocional de Swissair y aunque los amantes de la aviación echarán de menos la presencia de más imagenes de aviones Boeing, Fokker o embraer -ya que la mayoría de los modelos que se pueden observar son Airbus 320 y 340- bien es cierto que podrán ver esto suplido con la gran variedad de tomas desde diferentes angulos y en diferentes momentos del día, así como en variadas condiciones climatológicas.

Una autentica obra maestra y un regalo para los sentidos, gracias al autor por estos 20 minutos de espectaculo visual y auditivo.

US of A

It was in the summer of 08. For the first time in my life, I visited the United States of America. I spent there three weeks. One week was spent for visiting the west coast, between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

I must say that for me was a deception, after watching several movies where California is represented as a kind of fantastic place, a short of paradise, always sunny and plenty of beautiful beaches. In fact, we spent five of the seven days without swimming, due to the bad weather, always cold.

San Francisco was an exception. Climbing the hills of the city aboard the streetcars was a funny experience, also the different parts of the city, with the italian and the chinese districts. The bay is beautiful, with the world famous Golden Gate, and the little village of the other side of the bay, called Sausalito.

After this week, i spent two weeks in Chicago, wich is one of the most amazing cities i ever visited, with such a lot of skyscrappers, the Michigan's lake, the millenium park and nightlife.

To sum up, my journey was a nice experience, but also a expensive one, specially because generally there is nothing to visit in the cities, nothing but shops, so we spent all the day shopping.