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Dave Cull is a well-known television presenter who has fronted lifestyle and home improvement programmes since the 1980s, including Renovators, Open Home, Town & Country, Maggie's Garden Show, Master Builders House of the Year Awards, 5.30 with Jude and Home Front. He has written for a range of magazines and newspapers, and has published several lifestyle books, including Open Home, The Great New Zealand Kitchen Book, Garden Landscaping, You Can Fix It!, You Can Paint It! and Kitchen Essentials and is a Dunedin City Councillor.
Born in Invercargill, Dave has been a Dunedin resident for many years. Dave is a great enthusiast for Central Otago, where he has holidayed and visited all his life. His long love of and interest in the region, as well as his taste for good wine, made him the ideal writer of Vineyards on the Edge: The Story of Central Otago Wine.
In 2003 A Toast to Martinborough and the Wairarapa: Stories from the Vineyards was published.
‘To become better acquainted with the subject, I helped out at various tasks like bottling, picking, netting and planting. Drinking was a further onerous but necessary responsibility. I talked to dozens of people involved with wine. The explosion in grape and wine production here is attracting a lot of attention. The region is on the verge of great changes, and many of the people who pioneered the industry may not be around in ten years' time. The stories they have to tell, the passion and vision they have shown to build vineyards in the 'desert', are awe inspiring; the place they live and work in is just as spectacular. This book gave me a great excuse to wander around getting to know Central Otago again. It's changed heaps from the place I remember as a kid, and it's on the cusp of possibly bigger changes: notably the wine explosion.’
Dave’s most recent book is Icebergs: The Antarctic Comes to Town, and October 2009 will see the launch of his new book – Big Weather South – published, like Icebergs, in association with the Otago Daily Times. In Big Weather South Dave satisfies our Southern fascination with the weather, and examines what real impact it has on our lives. Does it make us hardy and resourceful, or shape the region’s character? And what of future climate change for the South? Dave’s robust, colourful prose – complemented by breathtaking photographs from the award-winning team at the Otago Daily Times – captures our dramatic weather events: floods, droughts, gales, hoar frosts, snowstorms and boiling seas.
Dave’s interests include fishing, gardening, wine appreciation, history and chilling out in Central Otago.
Vineyards on the Edge: The Story of Central Otago Wine
A Toast to Martinborough and the Wairarapa: Stories from the Vineyards
Icebergs - The Antarctic Comes to Town
Big Weather South