Review: Vine dining at Plume

Review: Vine dining at Plume
Plume is about an hour's drive north of Auckland. (Image: Helen van Berkel)
Helen van Berkel
“Plume,” said the roadside sign. Here it is, I told my companion, and we swung into the driveway. Almost immediately, I saw the rest of the sign: “villas”. No, this was not it. This was the luxury villa part of the Plume property. After a careful reverse out of the driveway and onto Matakana’s Sharp Rd – most likely named for the bends in it – we saw the next sign “Plume Restaurant” and pulled into driveway number two.  But wait, the sign also said “Heron’s Flight Viney...

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