Wild new experience at The Mud House

Canterbury’s iconic winery, The Mud House has just undergone a major revamp and now has a new Made in New Zealand shop, a wine-tasting room and a re-modeled café.

Visitors to the Waipara wine district, 45 minutes north of Christchurch, now have an opportunity to enjoy the new ‘shop, taste, dine, buy wine’ experience now offered.

“We are not resting on the laurels of our popular concerts,” says Mud House manager Jenny Anderson.

“We are constantly looking to bring new experiences to our visitors. The new facility provides both local and overseas visitors with a quality experience by combining our lovely wines with the very best of New Zealand products,” says Jenny Anderson.

The Mud House’s impressive building, formerly known as Canterbury House, now has a new tasting room and wine shop, open from 10am to 5pm every day, which offers the full range of Mud House and Waipara Hills Wines for tasting and for retail sale.

Alternatively the wines can be enjoyed in the new café, accompanying the recently launched Wild Pie menu, offering pastry topped delights including wild Thar, Boar, Venison, Rabbit and Goat, alongside tame offerings of beef, lamb and vegetarian. Ploughmans platters are also proving to be very popular.

“Our most popular dish so far is The Rock, our crayfish pie, which is cooked with green vegetables and field mushrooms in a creamy and mildly zingy Sauvignon Blanc sauce. At $22.50 it is the most expensive item on the menu, with most of the dishes offering great value at under $20,” says Jenny Anderson.

At the Made in New Zealand shop visitors can buy everything from high quality clothes and bags to hand-blown Hoglund Glass and items from the famed Weta Workshops, as well as Antipodes Skin Care, Temuka Pottery, Untouched World, David Trubridge, kids toys from Seedlings, food, books, boots, bags and lashings of chocolate.

“Visitors certainly now have many reasons to linger longer,” Jenny Anderson says.

The new facilities at the Mud House winery, located on State Highway 1, at Waipara, were formally opened on Tuesday night (subs: July 7) by raconteur and television personality Jim Hopkins.

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