Quintessential Kiwibloke Sam Neil is profiled this week in Time Magazine along with his vineyards in the Otago province of the South Island. Sam’s biggest achievements were Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October and The Piano.

Back in his native New Zealand, this son of three generations of importers of French vintages planted his first five acres (two hectares) of grapes in 1993. Neill has poured heart and soul not only into such successes as The Piano and the Jurassic Park movies but also into the alluvial-schist soil of the South Island of New Zealand, where his great-grandfather settled in 1859 and where Neill helms Two Paddocks, which is dedicated to the quest for what he calls “the seductive Pinot Noir.”

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