saturday
17th
February 2024
Superwild is a neighbourhood festival of all things wild in food, wine, beer, cider & more.
across three Te Aro venues.
who’s coming?
We’ve invited some of our friends who do the wild thing well. We pour, serve, eat and drink their goods all the time and we want to celebrate them with you on a sunny afternoon across Te Aro.
See below to see which winemakers, breweries, chefs, and guest speakers will be attending.
WINE
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WINE 〰️
15 MINUTE BOTTLES
Tom, Anne, David & Lana releases their first wine called Testpots in 2021 from Central Otago. Their eclectic backgrounds in wine, hospitality and agriculture have culminated in this project, producing the kind of lively, energetic wines they love to drink.
Pouring at Puffin
AMOISE
Amy is and ex nomad and winemaker in Hawkes Bay, NZ. Working the land and making small batch wines from local, organic & biodynamic vineyards. No additions or adulterations of any kind.
Pouring at Puffin
BROOD FERMENTATION
Lauren & Jim have collectively worked across wine, beer and hospitality for 10+ years and have now landed in Nelson, NZ. They now farm their own organic vineyard with biodynamic practices, making minimal intervention wine.
broodfermentation.com
Pouring at Puffin
KENZIE
Kenzie is about pushing the boundaries of style, while remaining authentic to where we come from.
In Hawkes Bay / Te Matau a Māui, Dave employs lo-fi techniques that engage creativity, risk and challenge, while letting the wine flow naturally to where it wants to go.
Mindful of vintage and style, crafting wines instinctively.
Pouring at Puffin
THREE FATES
Three Fates is an evolving project from Casey, Holly & Hester. The trio are united in their passion for working intuitively and acting minimally in the winery to reflect the ever-changing character of the vineyard; trapping a season in a bottle. Three Fates allows the team to pursue their joy for winemaking, crafting the wines they want to drink.
Pouring at Puffin
A THOUSAND GODS
Simon & Lauren work closely with their biodynamic grower in the Waihopai Valley of Marlborough. Meticulously farmed grapes are hand picked, fermented wild, with no additions, finings or filtrations.
Pouring at Puffin
ASHLEIGH BARROWMAN
Ash has spent years travelling between hemispheres learning from some of the best producers around the world. She now makes single vineyard and single varietal wines from the Southern Valleys of Marlborough, NZ. She divides her time equally between the vineyard and winery with her best mate Raf.
Pouring at Puffin
BRYTERLATER
James & Liv are committed to creating deeply considered, juicy wines that capture the energy of the vineyard. Using organically farmed grapes from select sites within the North Canterbury region of NZ
Pouring at Puffin
O NATUREL
We nurture 1.5ha of organic grapes in Central Otago to handcraft wines as naturally as possible. We love wines that are pure, authentic and delicious.
Pouring at Puffin
ALPINE WINE CO
Based in Wanaka, NZ, Alpine Wine Co has a philosophy centered around sourcing good grapes and making fun and interesting wines. Minimal handling, maximum flavour.
alpinewine.co.nz
Pouring at Puffin
BLACK ESTATE
Three Vineyards, one family and a restaurant. Naturally farming grapes to bottle from north facing slopes in Omihi, North Canterbury, NZ.
Pouring at Puffin
HALCYON DAYS
Amy & Olly use time honoured methods to create living wines that are a dynamic expression of their place in Aotearoa. Using organic grapes from Biogro vineyards in the Mangatahi and Bridge Pa subregions of Hawkes Bay / Te Matau a Māui.
Pouring at Puffin
RIPPON
On the shores of Lake Wanaka, Rippon is farmed with intent, love and of course, biodynamically.
‘Granted a moment of custodianship, the primary interest of all who work and live at Rippon is to do justice to this remarkable piece of land.’
Pouring at Puffin
VITA
Vita wines are made by Will Lyons-Bowman (Ngāpuhi) in the Waipara Valley in North Canterbury, NZ. Everything is aimed at bottling wine that is brimming with energy.
Hand harvested fruit is treated simply, allowing it to be a lively, pure and moreish expression of the land where it grew.
Pouring at Puffin
BEER
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BEER 〰️
8WIRED
Brewing and barrel aging excellent beers in Warkworth, New Zealand.
Often making the obscure enjoyable and always through our ingenuity in flavour.
8wired.co.nz
Pouring at Golding’s
DUNCAN’S
Duncan’s is an independently owned microbrewery located on the Kapiti Coast, NZ. We like to play with new style beer and we love sending it with big fruity and creative brews.
Pouring at Golding’s
NORTH END
An independent microbrewery in Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast, of New Zealand. Producing a range of beers, inspired by traditional European styles, brewed to capture the uniqueness of our land.
northendbrewing.co.nz
Pouring at Golding’s
BROOD FERMENTATION
Here they are again! Brewing unfined, unfiltered beer that celebrates the seasons and takes time.
broodfermentation.com
Pouring at Golding’s
GARAGE PROJECT WILD WORKSHOP
The Wild Workshop is our playground for creating all things weird and wonderful: barrel-aged sours, spontaneous ferments, beer-wine hybrids, and tanks brimming with fruit.
garageproject.co.nz/locations/wild-workshop-cellar-door
Pouring at Golding’s
SHINING PEAK
A boutique craft brewery and restaurant that celebrates and creates Taranaki history.
Drink Beer, Do Good.
Pouring at Godling’s
CRAFTWORK
A small idiosyncratic Belgian-style nano-brewery, in the heart of Victorian Oamaru, NZ.
Pouring at Golding’s
KARAMU BARRELWORKS
Karamu Barrelworks is Daryl Bryant’s Boutique brewery, nestled in a stand of oaks on a farm at Karamu and specialising in spontaneously fermented ales
instagram.com/karamubarrelworks/
Pouring at Golding’s
SUNSHINE
Born in 1989 and still brewing up ideas out in the water. Staying true to our roots and pretty stoked about the future.
New Zealand’s oldest independent brewery
Pouring at Golding’s & Puffin
CIDER
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CIDER 〰️
FRUIT CRU
Jesse & Cosmo started Fruit Cru in 2021 in a storage unit in Newtown, Wellington. Keen to create something fresh and unique they set to work with whatever organic fruit they could get their hands on. Apples, quinces, feijoas & kiwifruit. They co-fermented three small tanks and threw a party. It went off. Now they’ve built a small winery in the heart of Te Aro to create expressive bottles of sparkling fruit wine. Organic and foraged fruit, wild ferments and no added sulphur.
Pouring at Puffin, Humdinger & Golding’s
LILLI
Lilli is a new project from Liam Kelleher of Lele Wines and Will Bowman-Lyons of Vita Wines. The ciders are the happy outcome of a shared desire to ferment pome fruit as well as three chance encounters with three special orchards in Canterbury, NZ.
Pouring at Puffin & Golding’s
CHEFS
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CHEFS 〰️
GUEST SPEAKERS
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GUEST SPEAKERS 〰️
STACY BUCHANAN - BLOOD OF GODS
Part publisher, producer, and event promoter, Stacy Buchanan is a one-man hype machine, with a preacher’s passion to bridge wine to heavy metal music. His biannual cult heavy metal and wine ‘zine, Blood of Gods, launched in Spring 2020, and his annual Merrymaking, a festival of art, music, and wine in downtown Walla Walla, Washington, was quick to follow.
Throughout the pages of his publication, Buchanan pulls the curtain back from the “ivory tower snobs” and reveals a richer, louder, and more expansive and inclusive world shared by both metal and wine.
Panelist at Humdinger
JO BURZYNSKA
Dr Jo Burzynska is New Zealand-based wine writer, sound artist and researcher. Her work in these areas has increasingly converged in projects that combine sound and flavour. This includes her recent PhD investigating the influence of sound on the perception of wine, and the production of multi-sensory art and immersive experiences, such the establishment of the world’s first wine and sound bar. Most recently she has launched the substack, Oenosthesia - Blending Wine and Music, where she shares regular posts about the art and science of matching wine and music.
Panelist at Humdinger
NATHAN TAARE - OFBODY
Nathan Taare (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tama) hails from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington and is a multi-skilled, multi-talented artist driven by a profound passion for exploration and self-learning. With a majority of his
professional career in the film and television art department, Nathan has seamlessly transitioned into art direction and production design. As a musician, experimentalist, and
percussion specialist, his creative pursuits are as diverse as they are enthralling.
Beyond his musical endeavors, Nathan is deeply entrenched in the realm of olfactory art and perfumery. Throughout his artistic journey, he has demonstrated an unwavering dedication to creativity, consistently pushing boundaries and seeking new avenues of expression. It is this unique blend of talents and his insatiable curiosity that gives rise to captivating and boundary-breaking artistic expressions, leaving audiences spellbound and their senses fully engaged.
Panelist at Humdinger
