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The recent announcement of a new New Zealand/European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is good news for wine exporters.
And they're off! After nearly three years 'Zooming' around the world while grounded in New Zealand, winemakers, viticulturists and marketers are taking flight.
Sam Rouse is the first ever recipient of the Gourmet Traveller Wine Young New Zealand Winemaker of the Year award, open to those under 35.
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.
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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.
