You Jin Lee, from NZTE South Korea, left, with Charlotte Read.

What a day at the 2026 New Zealand Wine Business Forum, Winning in Changing Markets.

Relationships, provenance and premium positioning are helping New Zealand wineries with new customers in challenging global markets. Kat Pickford talks to wineries working hard to grow their global footprint.

Sauvignon Blanc New Zealand 2027 committee member Richard Ellis hopes international visitors to the event, to be held at Wairau, Marlborough from 2-4 February 2027, will leave with a deeper appreciation of New Zealand wine.

It has been 20 years since the inaugural Burgundy Exchange, in which a group of young Central Otago winemakers and viticulturists are selected to head to Burgundy each vintage, before French participants travel to New Zealand for a Central harvest.

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