Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Worrying About Wine

It seems when the wine is gone for the drinking I worry about it staying gone. Most notably I'm bothered by the city planning in Nu Zillund and the recommendation that we continually free up land at the edge of the city. Apparently this is the answer to our over-inflated, un-affordable housing market.

Which has nothing to do with wine. Except it does.

Kumeu is a small but powerful wine region on the western skirts of Auckland. It's production including the excellent Chardonnay of Kumeu River, amongst other things. But if our city planners have thehance of their way Kumeu will no longer be at the edge of the city but part of a scraped earth 'sub-division'.

Or worse (or better I imagine it's how you look at it) it will have to sidle up to yet another mall.



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