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Central Otago winegrowers facing a third season of labour shortages are hopeful for a change in rules.

Jacob Coombridge, a 22-year-old orchard supervisor at Webb’s Fruit, has won the 2022 Central Otago Young Grower competition.

A network of study sites on hill country farms around New Zealand is now providing a wealth of information and research to help guide farmers around pasture forage decisions.

Sharing the splendour of Central Otago has been key to an attraction campaign for the 2022 grape harvest.

A Central Otago vineyard is using strategic placement of subsurface irrigation to water vines while growing midrow clover crops.

Central Otago had "a tricky little vintage", says James Dicey of Grape Vision.

“Going into lockdown we were all thinking that we wouldn’t have jobs,” says Valli’s owner and winemaker Grant Taylor.

Having soil as a sustainability focus for New Zealand wine is “justified, deserved and probably overdue”, says James Dicey of Grape Vision in Central Otago.

Lyndsey Harrison’s career has taken her all over the world and she’s been on the scene in two developing new world wine regions.

Winegrowers in Central Otago are embracing organic practices at a rate that “punches above their weight”.