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Marlborough's inaugural Climate Action Week, to be held from 13 to 17 February, has been designed to grow awareness and knowledge about lowering carbon emissions for a climate positive future, says organiser Catherine van der Meulen.
The week includes "immersion experiences", including a session on organics, biodiversity and tackling carbon emissions at Dog Point Vineyards, and another at Yealands Estate, focused on decarbonisation, biodiversity, "and leveraging these assets to grow the brand with meaning", says Catherine.
Yealands are also on board as founding sponsor.
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.
