Ata Rangi Pinot NoirThere are many kinds of invest­ments avail­able on the mar­ket today: put­ting a little some­thing aside for later can be very reward­ing.

One of our favour­ite kinds is a bottle or two of nice wine. And where bet­ter to source your invest­ment than just over the hill from Wel­ling­ton, in Mar­tin­bor­ough?

Set aside a Sunday. Haul your­self out of bed by about 10am; drive through the Hutt and onward, and by lunch­time you’ll con­veni­ently arrive in Mar­tin­bor­ough for a spot of victu­als. There’s lots to choose from. Then cruise the vine­yards, cred­it card in hand.

Make sure, of course, that you have a des­ig­nated driver. Or, if you can­’t find any­one mug enough to be driver on a trip like this, seek some pro­fes­sion­al advice. Even bet­ter, save up and get in line for Toast Mar­tin­bor­ough, a much anti­cip­ated annu­al wine fest­iv­al.

And so, with time you can reap the rewards. Right at this moment, we are enjoy­ing a nice bottle of 1994 Dry River Pinot Noir that we pur­chased nearly ten years ago: back in the PK era.

You don’t need to be ser­i­ous about wine to do this: we wer­en’t. But whenev­er you get the oppor­tun­ity to get hold of some­thing you like, put some of it away. And like us, come a dull Sat­urday night some­time in the dis­tant future you’ll have some­thing to sup on… once the kids have gone to bed.