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Pinot Noir was bigger than Texas in the minds of Martinborough Vineyard's founders when Larry McKenna arrived in 1985 to be the winemaker and 20% shareholder.
When I spoke to Dr Wendy Parr recently, she was enjoying wonderful late autumn weather on the limestone hills above Port Tarakohe in Golden Bay.
When Marisco Vineyards Winemaker Emma Marris heads overseas with her family's wine this year, she'll take a "feeling of true legacy" with her, just as her father did 30 years ago.
The year Edward Donaldson was born, his parents planted one of the South Island's first vineyards, with a "fruit salad bowl of varieties" in Halswell.
Tyler and Amber Soljan were just five years old when they stepped into a bin full of grapes, and into five generations of family tradition.
When the youngest generation of the Spy Valley Wines' founding family were little, a tractor ride was a popular before-school thrill, and vineyard-fresh grapes a delicious snack.
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