staff and volunteers dug out 1m of silt from the vineyard and 27,000 bottles of wine<\/a>, which were sold.<\/p>\nThe winery was reopened on Labour Weekend 2023.<\/p>\n
Jans said the winery business had struggled in the years since Gabrielle.<\/p>\n
A false rumour that it had gone into liquidation led to a wedding booking being cancelled last week, which was frustrating, he said.<\/p>\n
Since the cyclone, Jans has bought former vineyards across the road from Linden Estate and has been experimenting with new crops to plant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to grow things that Chinese people can\u2019t get enough of. One of them is a plant called yacon and we\u2019ve got quite a large trial plot and it\u2019s growing very well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jans had been battling cancer and is in remission after radiation treatment and operations.<\/p>\n
Because of this, he said he had decided to step away from daily operations at the vineyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel a million dollars again, but I\u2019m just not as sharp as I used to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jans said the restaurant was one of the country\u2019s best culinary experiences, in his opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m delighted to know that Linden Estate will continue to flourish, welcoming guests to our cellar door and restaurant for years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s waiting for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo I bought it and got sucked into being a wine man,\u201d Jans said. Since then, Jans started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2327,74,1863,795,33959,231824,638,71,33960,41464,269644,112036,111,139,69,26859,2738,6791,213,21694,9348,1120,4758,1361,2217,18991,1530],"class_list":["post-549036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2327","tag-after","tag-back","tag-bruce","tag-cyclone","tag-daytoday","tag-estate","tag-from","tag-gabrielle","tag-helm","tag-jans","tag-linden","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operations","tag-owner","tag-prominent","tag-sports","tag-step","tag-survived","tag-takes","tag-taking","tag-that","tag-valley","tag-winery","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}