Young Guns - Alex Hendry
Alex Hendry, age 26, is a vineyard manager at La Collina Vineyard and a cellar hand at Linden Estate.
Originally from the Netherlands, it while he was travelling around New Zealand in the 1950s that he met his wife-to-be, Maria Tarasiewicz. The couple bought 150 acres in the Esk Valley and lived at Eskdale until 2001, when they retired to Napier. Wim was an innovative farmer, adopting new practices and starting several new ventures on the property. As well as cropping, kiwifruit, a Suffolk sheep stud, angora goats, beef cattle, deer and farm forestry, he was among the first to grow grapes in the Esk. The van der Lindens established their winery in 1989, selling their wines under the Linden Estate label. Wim joined the Grape Growers’ Association in 1970 and during the 1980s he served as president of the Grape Growers’ Council of New Zealand, contributing to an industry report and submissions to Government. In 2008, recognising his contribution to New Zealand’s viticulture, he was made a life member of Hawke’s Bay Wine Growers Inc.
