Did you know that nearly 90% of total New Zealand wine sales occur offshore? That simple number means our wine businesses are the most export oriented of all the global wine industries. It also makes our sector especially sensitive to any changes in the trade rules that govern the access of our wines into international markets.
"Te toto o te tangata he kai, te oranga o te tangata, he whenua, he oneone." While food provides the blood in our veins, our health is drawn from the lands and soils.
OPINION: The plan for this editorial was to applaud the collaborative spirit of New Zealand wine, which was in full force at Altogether Unique 2024.
OPINION: Before Covid-19, the rise and rise of wine tourism was a much talked about feature of the wine sales landscape.
OPINION: This edition celebrates three champions of the New Zealand wine industry, and their many decades of commitment to our vines, wines, research, and organisations.
OPINION: The news could not have been more concerning – an industry member deliberately and illegally imported grapevines into New Zealand, and then grew those vines in one of our major winegrowing regions, thereby threatening the livelihoods of friends, neighbours, and colleagues in the industry, and potentially the wider primary sector.
OPINION: In this edition we check out vintage perspectives from around New Zealand, with many reporting lighter than typical yields in a delightfully disease-free harvest.
OPINION: Harvest begins, and almost immediately we start to get media enquiries about how the vintage is going and whether it is going to be a good year for New Zealand wine.
OPINION: Rachael Cook is the smiling grape grower on this month’s cover, tending vines on the miniscule, beautiful and dream-driven vineyard she and her husband Murray have created on an east facing hillside of Marlborough’s Brancott Valley.
OPINION: The New Year is now well underway and appears to have started promisingly on the weather front, with lots of warm, dry days.
OPINION: Witnessing the relentless growth of agritech in New Zealand vineyards and wineries is somewhat "bittersweet" for Tahryn Mason, who loves the hands-on traditions of winegrowing.
OPINION: The election is done and dusted, and as I am writing this everyone is waiting for the new government to be formed.
OPINION: After years of virtual gatherings, remote tastings, and 'new normal' caution, New Zealand's wine industry has been making up for lost time.
OPINION: I am writing this the day after the opening game of the Rugby World Cup and the All Blacks' loss to France.
OPINION: People have been "pivotal" to Dr David Jordan's career in wine, from the generosity of those who shared their knowledge when he was starting out, to the insights he still gleans from those in the field.
When Philip Gregan began working at the Wine Institute of New Zealand in 1983, this country had 6,000 planted hectares and an abundance of potential.
OPINION: Growers and wineries are going to hear a lot from Government agencies about Freshwater Farm Plans over the next few months.
OPINION: Vintage 2023 saw a welcome return to melting pot wineries, as companies threw open their doors to global wine workers, with all the excitement, experience and insights they offer.
Summer 2023 will live long in the memories of growers and wineries in the North Island, with record rainfall in several regions making for a very challenging season.
Going, going, gone. It's perhaps an apt phrase for some of those amid the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle in February, such as Philip Barber of Petane as he watched his steel tractor shed rip apart and its tractors float away.
For many growers and wineries, the past three years have all been about getting through the immediate challenges associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
This long lean country, with its fringe of beaches, spine of mountains and korowai of cloud, is altogether unique.
I am often asked whether it's difficult whether it's difficult to find enough wine stories to fill a magazine.
Reputation, as everybody knows, is a hugely valuable asset - hard to earn and easy to lose.
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