Sam Neill's rocky 7.5-acre "Last Chance" vineyard under bird-nets during the grape-ripening season, near Alexandra, Central Otago. The Pinot Noir grape variety, so favoured and well-grown by Sam, thrives on the challenge of drawing its nutrients and sustenance from soils based on the ancient gritty glacial deposits which overly the partly broken-up Central Otago schist rock forming the grey hillocks seen here.

Sam Neill's rocky 7.5-acre "Last Chance" vineyard under bird-nets during the grape-ripening season, near Alexandra, Central Otago. The Pinot Noir grape variety, so favoured and well-grown by Sam, thrives on the challenge of drawing its nutrients and sustenance from soils based on the ancient gritty glacial deposits which overly the partly broken-up Central Otago schist rock forming the grey hillocks seen here.