Vintner has taste for success

Vintner has taste for success

It wasn’t exactly California weather but one of the bright lights of the American wine industry, Charles Banks, was not too bothered by the distant dark skies and low-teen temperatures of rural Hawke’s Bay yesterday. He was more interested in taking in the “remarkable” landscape of the Gimblett Gravels and being back in a part of the world he confessed he had fallen in love with. “Hawke’s Bay is a very special place and it has great people – and nothing works without great people.”

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