Wine Grower (2231)
Show up at Two Terraces vineyard during harvest, and you’ll find an array of orange cones and nametags, a platter of piping hot scones, and a kaleidoscope of plans and potential.
“Why not?” responds Ben McLauchlan when asked about planting Glera for Prosecco on his Marlborough vineyard, Balvonie. “Helen and I like to try new things.”
“When you look at the sparkling wine sector, Prosecco has been a clear leader for growth,” says Lindauer Prosecco winemaker Jane De Witt.
Bec Norton and Aaron Zuccaro established Tettonica with a “desire to produce wines of distinction”.
Nicholas Brown has long had a penchant for sparkling wine.
When Daniel Le Brun first visited Marlborough in 1978, he was determined it was the Antipodean answer to Champagne.
New Zealand wine enthusiasts have a deepening understanding and growing appreciation of sparkling wine, says Mel Skinner, Chair of Méthode Marlborough and co-owner of Esse in Kaikōura.
Pernod Ricard's sparkling production in Marlborough has almost doubled in the past five years, with some Sauvignon Blanc blocks now being redeveloped to help fill demand.
Rudi Bauer is mid-tirage when we talk, using spring's settled weather to bottle méthode traditionelle.
Sparkling wine is no longer tethered to formality and festivities, with consumers increasingly popping the cork for a quiet drink after work or a wine match with a casual dinner.
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From Te Kano Estate in the Waitaki Valley, winemaker Dave Sutton offers insights into the year that was.
Matt Connell's winemaking palette includes colours from across Central Otago, from Gibbston and Alexandra, to Bendigo and Bannockburn.
Matt Barbour of Barbour Vineyards is Chair of the North Canterbury Winegrowers Association.
Foley Wine’s chief Marlborough winemaker Stu Marfell grew up on a farm in the Awatere Valley, and has seen the area transformed by grapes over the past 40 years. The Marlborough Wine Show Judge explores the Awatere.
