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Marlburians Jules Taylor and Ben Glover, and North Canterbury winegrowing couple Marcel Giesen and Sherwyn Veldhuizen, took out the titles in Gourmet Traveller Wine’s 2021 New Zealand Awards.
On a small vineyard in a quiet valley, a young couple is growing hope.
Getting science to work in the field requires some give and take, says Bragato Research Institute viticulture extension and research manager Len Ibbotson.
From studying banana plantlets in Cameroon to barley in Australia, Paul Epee has long been fascinated by agriculture and improving production.
Wine companies will soon be able to use artificial intelligence to count inflorescence, with a research prototype to be trialled in Marlborough later this year.
Felton Road Wines is restoring native plantings on public land near its Bannockburn estate, with Winemaker Blair Walter hopeful other businesses will get on board.
Delving into organics and regenerative agriculture has renewed Kurt Robinson’s passion for viticulture.
If Sherwyn Veldhuizen didn’t love her day job so much, the North Canterbury winegrower might spend all her time farming fungi.
Scientific testing around the anecdotal claims of regenerative agriculture is “urgently required”, according to a new report.
Pete Chapman loves to see an abundance of cherries at his family’s North Canterbury vineyard.
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New Zealand’s wine industry is “waking up” to the power of nature’s services, says entomologist and virologist Vaughn Bell.
Robert Holdaway sees science at work when he harvests a salad for dinner, plucking rocket, spinach and beetroot leaves from his Lower Wairau Vineyards.
Growing great grapes at Greystone is “an evolution not a revolution”, says General Manager Nick Gill from amidst a grassy sward.
The academic who helped seed enthusiasm for undervine cover crops in New Zealand has left a legacy of biodiversity in vineyards.
