Wine & music

9/12/2008

Dylan Rushbrook (left) set to sample the Albatross wines range

Dylan Rushbrook (1992-96) is currently the assistant manager at the Dunedin’s Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel.

He was spotted this week, sampling a new wine vintage, especially produced by Gibbston Valley to assist with fundraising for the Royal Albatross colony at the head of Otago Harbour. Just on 7,000 bottles of pinot noir, pinot gris and chardonnay has been produced with the vintage to be repeated each year in the foreseeable future.

It’s hoped somewhere between $20,000 and $50,000 a year will be raised for the Otago Peninsula Trust which oversees the colony's operations.

The Southern Cross has put the wine on its listings.

Eddie Gillies (middle) and the Dunedin City Slickers

Eddie Gillies (1954-56), a member of the Dunedin City Slickers – a group of well experienced saxophonists – is in for a busy summer.

The Slickers will play on Sundays at the Dunedin Botanic Gardens through until May on rotate with the Salvation Army Brass Band, Kaikorai Metro Brass Band, Dunedin City Jazz Orchestra and the Mosgiel Brass Band.