From the CEO: 2025, the good, the bad, and the...
The end of the year is fast approaching, so here are some thoughts on a few of the significant developments…
As organisers were gearing up for the 11th anniversary of the Central Otago Pinot Celebration at the end of January, one weary wine scribe was preparing to leave a UK winter behind and catch up with some old acquaintances.
DAIRY FARMS are few and far between in Central Otago but the New Zealand Grassland Association’s 76th annual conference in Alexandra last week still had plenty of papers relevant to the sector, and not just in the session designated dairy.
If Central Otago’s insanely beautiful landscape is not enough of a lure for wine media to the region, the annual Central Otago Pinot Noir Limited (COPNL) spring tasting most definitely is.
The end of the year is fast approaching, so here are some thoughts on a few of the significant developments…
OPINION: When I moved to Marlborough two decades ago, I found countless lines of tidy vines, neatly mowed and carefully…
The large 2025 harvest will exacerbate the wine industry's "lingering" supply from recent vintages, New Zealand Winegrowers Chief Executive Philip…
If you find a new consumer in a developed wine market, you are taking them from someone else, says Blank…
OPINION: Sauvignon Blanc was famously introduced to New Zealand by Ross Spence of Matua Valley, and then serendipitously planted in…