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Wine and cheese are natural partners and have gone hand in hand for centuries.
It was a headline to strike fear into the hearts of the New Zealand wine industry, even if there were many shaking their heads at its validity.
Go back several hundred years and you would have seen Waipara’s rolling hills and valley floor clad in totara, lacebark, kowhai, lancewood and broadleaf forest.
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In his book The Wine Atlas of New Zealand Michael Cooper says; “Nelson has some of the most stunning vineyard settings in the country”.
Well, we know that we don’t know exactly how big the vintage is going to be. We might have a feel for the size but it is still a big unknown with potentially big impacts on every participant in the sector as the last few years have shown.
After three years of planning and four days of learning, Pinot Noir 2013 is all over. This years was the fifth such event, attracting over 500 delegates, with close to 200 of those, international visitors. It was a brave move by organisers to take the premise of past events, yet change the structure. A brave and sensible move.
