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"It's one of the best vintages, I think," says Chris Seifried on day one of Seifried Estate's Nelson harvest. "I'm really excited about it."

Mark McGill, co-founder, grower and maker of Abel Cider and Chardonnay, reflects on the year that was from the boutique and beautiful Moutere block he's grown with his wife Sophie.

"We're very happy," says Neudorf Winemaker Todd Stevens, reporting clean fruit and "solid" volumes for vintage 2023, with flowering in their Moutere Hills vineyards better than summer estimates.

Nelson grape growers escaped the rain pressure faced by many wine regions in the first few weeks of the new year.

Fonterra is closing its Brightwater site in Nelson in April next year, with 30 staff set to lose their jobs.

ASB is rolling out more community bankers across New Zealand, providing targeted coaching and seminars to help customers with their personal finance needs.

Nelson was dealt a significantly low fruit set and crop this year, says Andrew Greenhough, with yields of Greenhough Vineyards' home block down by 30 to 40 percent.

There have been a few changes in the normally very stable Nelson wine industry in recent months, most notably the sale of the beleaguered former Mahana winery and restaurant facility along with the sale of vineyard land.

The season is over for the only dairy farmer directly affected by the huge wildfire that blazed for several days in the hills southwest of Nelson.

Six commercial farms have been destroyed by the huge fire in the hills southwest of Nelson, according to Federated Farmers.