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Carla started at Palliser in 1992.
Back then – and even now – as is the way when you work with Richard, Carla did everything. She looked after the cellar door. She did cleaning. She did gardening. She drove the forklift.
As Administration Manager, Carla looks after the export markets, liaising with overseas distributors and persuading them to order more wine. And if the forklift needs a driver…
Away from the office, Carla has the love of her life, a growling yellow Ducati. She’s always loved bikes but had to put them aside when the children came along. Now she has her Ducati. She’s always loved the Ducati thunder. But if she has one small quibble, it’s too quiet; it needs to be louder. She says this wistfully. It’s always the quiet ones.
The talented wine scribe Raymond Chan recently tasted a bottle of our 2011 Pencarrow Pinot Noir. This is what he had to say: The Pencarrow Pinot Noir has upstaged its … more
Two men, who lived hundreds of years apart, connect Palliser Estate with the very beginnings of
New Zealand's history.