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Beyond Auckland

Man O'War dawn

Jancis's recent New Zealand tour took in rich men's wineries on Waiheke Island (above) and the Bay of Islands.

Man O'War

Berridge Spencer is a pretty cool winery owner. In February he transported our small group from Auckland to the Man O’War estate in his own helicopter and expertly gave us an aerial tour of Waiheke Island, the holiday island to the east of New Zealand’s biggest city with which his late father John, a paper magnate who was once New Zealand’s richest man, fell in love in the 1970s. Our tour inculded an aerial view of the Man O...