Obsidian Vineyard: The Brad Thorn of our wine industry (NZ)

With the euphoria of the Rugby World Cup finally ebbing, please excuse an indulgent retrospective analogy. In New Zealand’s world of wine there are a handful of stars that have an international reputation, a number that hover beneath the radar of critical acclaim, and then there’s the rest who do a fine job but have yet to establish themselves as major players. That reliable, unflashy but always dependable “lock of ages” Brad Thorn is a perfect example of someone who you’d always love to have in your team because he just gets on with it and does the business, writes John Hawkesby in The New Zealand Herald.