On-site winemaker at Wineworks’ in Auckland, Renée Dale found her Romeo Bragato Exchange win reinvigorated her passion for Bachelor of Wine Science studies at EIT.
According to a recent report by market research company Morgan Stanley, Generation Y or “Millennials” (those born between the early 1980s and the year 2000) have shifted their drinking habits dramatically in the last few years.
What began as a means of sending smaller samples of wine around the world, has morphed into a major marketing tool, which for the first time ever includes Marlborough wines.
Ever watched paint dry, grass grow, or Mark Richardson bat? All tedious endeavors. A little bit like making music from the sound of grapes fermenting...or is it?
When Tuscan winemaker Stefano Guidi dropped in to Matakana’s Heron’s Flight winery for the first time he wasn’t looking for a job, he was just there to sample their Italian varietal wines and chat with the winemaker.
Craggy Range Winery is shrouded in misty haze on the chilly winter day that winemaker Matt Stafford has decanted some of the hottest reds he has ever made; a trio of 2013 wines labeled the Prestige Collection.