
John Darby Directorships Darby & Associates Ltd Amisfield Vineyard Ltd Bale Fusion Ltd Clearwater Resort Ltd Lake Hayes Vineyard Ltd Pisidia Holdings Ltd Major Shareholdings Background Central Otago based property developer. John Darby has particular expertise in golf resort development. He also worked with Sir Bob Charles in the development and design of Millbrook Resort, Queenstown. He is a Harvard University trained golf course architect and resort planner. News A Queenstown business partnership has plans for the largest vineyard development in Central Otago. Amisfield Vineyards is a company set up by Queenstown businessmen John Darby, Russell Hamilton and Rob Hay of Chard Farm and it is about to start developing a 270ha block at Lowburn, north of Cromwell beside the Wanaka-Cromwell highway. The company plan to subdivide the land into vineyard blocks of between 6ha and 10ha to be sold for $10,000 to $20,000 a ha, plus smaller lifestyle blocks, Mr Hay said. (Southland Times)