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I am in the process of compiling a list of things that should never be attempted.
After a 20-year closure trial, Trinity Hill has switched its entire wine rage to screwcaps.
Environmental champions step up to challenge.
A bout of “dumpster diving” was one of the first priorities for a Marlborough Winery Waste group established in June 2018, says Bridget Ennals.
Jane Forrest Waghorn speaks to Sophie Preece about an unexpected family business.
There’s new evidence that hemp growing amid grapevines may boost the diversity of native yeasts in the resulting wines.
The soil food web can be thought of as the soil biome.
Large and small companies are seeking strategies to reduce their water use and impact on the environment and to mitigate risk in drought years.
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There’s been something of a makeover in New Zealand vineyards in recent years, as the clean-cut look of sprayed rows and boundaries loses a little gloss.
Having soil as a sustainability focus for New Zealand wine is “justified, deserved and probably overdue”, says James Dicey of Grape Vision in Central Otago.
A major New Zealand wine company is digging into regenerative agriculture, with the launch of an 8-hectare vineyard trial in Marlborough.
Native plantings trialled under Villa Maria vines have yielded good results, despite dry conditions and destructive rabbits.
