Shows like Under The Vines are more about character and vibe than plot. We want to hang out with the people in and around the Oakley Vineyards in the beautiful countryside on New Zealand, which is why the show succeeded in its first two seasons. But at the end of Season 2, a stranger came around claiming to own half the vineyard.
Can he be incorporated into the show’s cast without disrupting the vibe? UNDER THE VINES SEASON 3 : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After we are given a recap of Season 2, we see shots of the Oakley Vineyards in the early morning. Everyone living at the house is woken up by a man singing a sea shanty. The Gist: The people being woken up are the vineyard’s co-owners, Daisy Munroe (Rebecca Gibney) and Louis Oakley (Charles Edwards), along with Tippy (Trae Te Wiki), the vineyard’s very pregnant vintner.
The person singing the shanty is William (Mark Mitchinson), who has been living at the house since he came by six months prior and claimed that the vineyard’s late owner, Stanley Oakley, promised him half of the property after a night of drinking. His evidence? A promise scrawled on a bar menu. Daisy and Louis dispute the claim, and the parties are about to have the dispute settled in front of a mediator.
Louis, a former lawyer who was disbarred in London, feels they have an airtight case, but William is extremely confident, so much so that he’s making plans to build a new cellar door, aka a tasting room, for the vineyard, even though they .