Some of the A Thousand Gods wine range. A Thousand Gods Wines
*This is a continuation from last week’s piece, which can be found here.
When last we left Simon Sharpe, he had found himself back in Marlborough for vintage, leaving his wife and young son back in France, as COVID rapidly swept across the globe. With international travel shut down and New Zealand’s borders closed, he hunkered down with the rest of the the country in the relative safety of the South Island (which remained COVID-free).
A Thousand Gods would be made at The Coterie for its first three years before Simon and Lauren decided to bring it closer to home and truck the fruit from Churton down to Canterbury.
When the national lockdown lifted, Simon raced back to Cahors to get his family and they migrated back to New Zealand in the midst of tight border controls and quarantines. International travel at that time was surreal and spooky as massive airports echoed with the sound of silence and emptiness. It was a challenging time to move half-way across the world, but it was worth it for them to be back in Aotearoa and because of the immense potential which awaited them with A Thousand Gods.
Simon made just the one wine in 2019, which was simply called Sauvignon Blanc (it was 100% sauvignon blanc from Churton Vineyard). Because he was still living in France at the time, he did not get to taste the wine regularly during its
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