From left, Gerald Harrex, Sue Bell, Kathleen Dundass-Jones, Fred Gianone, Mac Kennedy, Jimmy Dundass, Mark Keaney, Ken Woodhouse, Wes Flannery (obscured), Kerrin Tohill and Ralph the dog, toast the shooting season on Saturday. Photo by Diane Brown
McWas (the Moa Creek Wine Appreciation Society) meets each year at the maimai to enjoy a morning of duck shooting and then enjoy some good wine and a barbecue.
Members had shot a dozen ducks between them.
Each year for the past five years they have brought a bottle of their best vintage, and this year they had a special treat, opening a magnum of Mt Edward pinot noir, the wine chosen by Queen Elizabeth when she celebrated London winning hosting rights for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Kathleen Dundass-Jones said the wine 47% of the vintage was grapes from The Stonehouse, at Clyde, which she used to manage, and Alan Brady from Mt Edward Winery had given them the magnum as thanks.
