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Martinborough: New Zealand's Other 'M' Wine Region

All this week, Special Jaunted Correspondent Eric Rosen takes us on a whirlwind field trip to New Zealand’s Other Wine Regions. Sure, now that it’s summer down there they might be sipping on those tropical, grassy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc’s we’re all familiar with. But as Rosen tells us, there’s more to New Zealand wine than Marlborough, and much of it is within an hour of New Zealand’s major cities.

The final stop on our New Zealand’s Other Wine Regions field trip is a quick side-trip off the road from Hawkes Bay down to Wellington, to a town just about an hour away from the capital city along well marked and well paved roads (even if one of them is a vertiginous mountain highway). This makes Martinborough the perfect trek for a day-trip, or even a wine-country overnight.

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