Tip-top conditions on New Zealand's North Island...

Pinot Noir grapes at Palliser Vineyard
(Image credit: New Zealand Winegrowers / Palliser)
When Ulster immigrant John Martin stopped at the Ruamāhanga River in 1875, near the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, it was wilderness.
Using gold-rush earnings, he laid out the streets of a village in the pattern of the union flag, naming it after himself: Martinborough.
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