Out for a Duck in Martinborough

The Martinborough Business Association is proud to announce a full calendar of events and activities timed around the ICC Cricket World Cup in February and March 2015. The headline event is ‘Out for a Duck in Martinborough’.

Many of the local restaurants are already confirmed including Medici Café, The Village Café, Bloom Restaurant at Murdoch James Estate, The Martinborough Hotel Bistro, The Pavilion Restaurant at Peppers Parehua, Vineyard Café at Margrain, and Pinocchio. Each restaurant will pair a duck dish with a Martinborough Pinot Noir over the period 16 February to 23 March 2015. Visitors can try a few, select a favourite and take part in the events in Martinborough and the Wairarapa.
Calum Thom of the Vineyard Café says “Its great to bring some rivalry into these events and to see the cricketing visitors leave the city and experience the great rural atmosphere we have here in the Wairarapa”.

Out for a Duck in Martinborough has been timed to coincide with several other events to provide additional entertainment for our cricketing visitors. Brewday will be on 28 February. Organiser Karen Aitken saw the chance to sandwich the event between the two England games in Wellington.

“It’s a great opportunity to bring the Barmy Army and other supporters over the hill to the Wairarapa so they can see why Wellington people love Martinborough so much” says Karen.