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After the 1991 Commerce Commission ruling on collective bargaining, that system changed and so did their vineyard. They approached Penfolds for advice who recommended replanting the Muller Thurgau and …
At home, Bill Irwin had recognised that the varieties and clones available in New Zealand were unlikely to result in wines of the style and quality that they were …
Between Bill Thorpe’s Longbush Wines and brother John Thorpe’s Gisborne Wine Company, the Thorpe family grew a significant wine enterprise out of their business and horticultural expertise. Strike Photography …
Vinoptima Nick Nobilo was also bitten by the Gisborne and Gewurztraminer bug. In the early 1960s, like many second-generation Dalmatian winemakers, he joined his parents small wine and orcharding …
In Gisborne’s case, the structure of the wine filiere is distinctive in several ways. The large wineries established in Lytton Road are fermentation and storage facilities rather than full …
New Zealand vines in their climates and soils Viewed from the vine’s perspective it is limiting, although often necessary, to separate climate from soils when trying to understand why …
Johnson’s memory of the taste cannot be doubted. Yet the speculations in his second paragraph are flattering but flawed. New Zealand does not, even with the ‘perhaps inserted, have …
Historical geography of the vine The historical geography of the vine and wine in New Zealand is usefully viewed in a series of overlapping phases: the period of rural …