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A Wine Marlborough Lifetime Achievement Award is “very premature”, say Kevin and Kimberley Judd, nearly 43 years after they came to New Zealand for a three year stint. “We haven’t finished yet,” Kevin says.

In 1986 Hunter’s Wines shook up the wine world when it won the Sunday Times Vintage Festival in the United Kingdom with an oak aged Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough’s 1985 vintage.

New waste management rules in Marlborough will add impetus to recycling efforts by the wine industry, says Circular Wine Group member Jim White.

A state-of-the-art wastewater treatment system, inhouse upcycling of perlite and lees waste, and the spreading of grape marc and biosolids to vineyards, are just handful of the innovations rolled out at Rose Family Estate in recent years.

Having Isabel Estate’s Wild Barrique Chardonnay 2022 named Wine of the Year at the London Wine Competition shows what Marlborough is capable of, says winemaker Jeremy McKenzie.

A new interactive Marlborough wine map represents a "quantum leap in communicating Marlborough's diverse wine story", says Sophie Parker Thomson MW.

Fifteen premium Marlborough wineries have found a home away from home in the region, with a shared cellar door in the heart of wine country.

Cloudy Bay welcomed 40 guests from global markets to Marlborough in February, for the release of its 40th vintage Sauvignon Blanc.

After 11 years tasting and blending New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc from his home in Ireland, talk show superstar Graham Norton got up close and personal for Marlborough's 2025 vintage, joining Invivo Wines' founders Tim Lightbourne and Rob Cameron in the Awatere Valley.

The route to vintage seldom runs smooth, with the vagaries of nature and market dictating every turn. With a resplendent flowering talled by a gloomy summer, and some supply lines still in surplus, Sophie Preece learns that vintage 2025 will require careful navigation.