OPINION: “I’m a woman and I’m in wine. Why do we need Women in Wine?” I was asked this great question recently.
A free interactive tool has been launched to provide grape and apple growers with information on how climate change may affect the risks and costs of living with common plant diseases in different parts of New Zealand.
Collective data from more than 1,000 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc vineyards is helping grow understanding of the region's terroir.
“We’ve just had the first decent shower in three months,” says Rob Agnew when we call him.
A one-year Erasmus Programme in France in year three of an agricultural degree introduced Victoria Raw to the wine industry, and changed her life.
Winemaker, marketer, communicator and educator Ngarita Warden is diving deep into wine research, with 270 ferments under the microscope this vintage.
“It’s all about producing benchmark Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay… not necessarily the biggest or the best, but wine that people around the world will hold up as great example of Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay.”
Jordan Hogg always had a hankering to make his own wines, pushing boundaries and "showcasing another side of Marlborough".
Vandal was born from the desire to capture the moment when wine is at its ultimate drinkability.
Prophet's Rock and Scapegrace, already highly regarded for their wine and gin respectively, have combined their talents to create two limited release single vintage vermouths based on Prophet's Rock wine, Scapegrace wheat spirit, and predominantly Central Otago botanicals.
When Donald van der Westhuizen was studying ecology at university, his father urged him to switch to viticulture.
In 2016 Murray and Rachael Cook weighed up plans to renovate their Blenheim villa or invest in a long-held dream of growing their own wine label.
Wairarapa winemaker Jannine Rickards made a “tiny” batch of her own wine in 2017, on the moonlit edge of her harvest job at Julicher.
Chateau Garage, with its ficus-covered turrets, is a hive of side hustle industry.
New Zealand wine is in robust health, says a data cruncher "taking the pulse" of consumers in key markets.
This September Toby Buck hopes to drive a herd of sheep over the Thames, tapping into one of the entitlements of being a Freeman of London in the Vintners Company.
New Zealand winemakers have been invited to take a seat at Parliament's table, with plans for an exclusive signature wine range.
Matt Fox is now Chair of the New Zealand Young Viticulturist of the Year national committee.
New Zealand's wine industry shone in Cuisine Magazine's list of 'Aotearoa New Zealand's TOP 50 most influential & inspiring women in food & drink 2024'.
Michael Brajkovich MW has been honoured as the 2024 Winemakers’ Winemaker at a ceremony during ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf.
Puffin wine bar, tucked away in Wellington’s Ghuznee Street, champions some of New Zealand’s smallest biodynamic and organic winegrowers. In the lead up to its second Superwild event on 17 February, owner Hannah Wells tells us the how, why and who of Puffin.
As grapes ripen at Domaine Thomson this season, a laser will flash green bird-scaring beams in a pattern across the vines.
Pinot Noir New Zealand 2025 will be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch on 11 to 13 February 2025. Committee member Philippa Fourbet gives us a taste of what’s to come.
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