The Organic & Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference brought together local and international experts to explore themes of soil, water, biodiversity and regenerative systems. Emma Jenkins MW shares some of the science, insights and passion from June's three-day gathering in Blenheim.

If you find a new consumer in a developed wine market, you are taking them from someone else, says Blank Canvas co-founder Sophie Parker-Thomson MW.
Grape growers who failed to sell their crop this year will be considering their options for vintage 2026, says WK Blenheim director Hamish Morrow.
Marisco Vineyards founder Brent Marris notes that when the 2008 global financial crisis hit, The Ned brand was very young, so succumbed to downward price pressure to secure sales volumes.
The large 2025 harvest will exacerbate the wine industry's "lingering" supply from recent vintages, New Zealand Winegrowers Chief Executive Philip Gregan told attendees at Grape Days events around the country in June.
The global wine industry is experiencing its first “demand-based correction” after three decades of sustained growth, according to the Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Wine Industry Report 2025.

The topic of ‘Embracing Change and Sustaining Growth’ is at the heart of this year’s New Zealand Wine 2025 Wine Business Forum, to be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch on 28 August.

As our new financial year dawns, New Zealand Winegrowers continues to tally up media generated from guests hosted at Pinot Noir New Zealand 2025 - currently valued at $6.8 million.

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On 18 June 2025, the New Zealand Winegrowers (NZW) Board set the following levy rates for the year 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.
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