New Zealand's wine industry lost a beloved winemaker, mentor, colleague and friend earlier this year. Five decades after James Healy was lured into the wine world by food and wine gatherings at university, his daughter Sophie McGill pays homage to an extraordinary life and enduring legacy.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a more emphatic tribute to family than the one Jenny Dobson conveys via her Hawke's Bay wines.
Morven McAuley has never been particularly interested in wine as an object of reverence.
When Ashleigh Barrowman landed in Marlborough a decade ago, she was convinced the wine tanks that dotted the landscape were hiding dairy secrets.
In the acknowledgements section of her Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme report, Jess Wilson thanks those who’ve supported her many endeavours. “Even when I say, ‘this is the last one’ when invariably it never is.”
Sixty years after a wine book hijacked Ivan and Chris Donaldson’s medical careers, 50 years after they pioneered winegrowing in North Canterbury, and 40 years after they planted Pegasus Bay, the third of their four sons, Ed, talks of the privilege and passion of working in the family business.
Anna Kelland was 7 years old when she announced she would be a winemaker, planning for a career that would make her parents happy.
Pioneering Gisborne winery Matawhero Wines is marking half a century of influence in New Zealand's modern wine story.
Tucked away in the chalky hills of Weka Pass, Bell Hill is much more than a vineyard; it's an ongoing conversation between people, soil, and commitment.
Auckland University master's student Rebecca Strange presented her research into Saccharomyces cerevisiae at the New Zealand Wine Centre Scientific Research Conference in Blenheim in June, and was named runner up in the Best Student Award. She shares some insights into her thesis.
Five regional finalists are honing their skills for the national final of the 2025 Young Viticulturist of the Year, to be held at Greystone in Waipara on 27 August.
Dr Richard Smart spent more than 55 years advising students, growers and organisations around the world on vine physiology and canopy management.
Jenny Dobson was 22 and blissfully naïve when she left New Zealand for France in 1979, with a chemistry degree, a love of wine and an ambition to become a winemaker.
As Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand marks 30 years, it needs to become “business as usual” for the wine industry, says viticulturist Gwyn Williams.
Community has been at the heart of Neudorf Wines since 1976, from picnics with other wine pioneers to collegial marketing on the world stage.
Mark Allen is well known for shaking the proverbial tree when it comes to getting vine research into vineyard action.
As a young industrial chemist working in product development, Clive Jones would scan ingredient lists at the supermarket, "interested in what makes this product different from that".
A collaboration between three friends is helping propel one of New Zealand’s most promising alternative varieties further into the limelight.
Thirty-six years after Dave and Chris Macdonald followed a vineyard dream to Marlborough, and 28 years after they named a wine label for their children Blair and Deni, the family is devoted to Bladen, says Deni Hopkins
Fifty years after Hermann and Agnes Seifried picked their first grapes in Nelson, their eldest daughter, Heidi Seifried-Houghton, reflects on the enduring legacy of this “wild dream”.
Beautiful fizz makes for a classic romantic gesture.
Thirty-five years after Gordon Russell caught the Chenin Blanc bug, he's well and truly passed it on to his daughter Holly Girven Russell, along with her co-founders at a tiny Hawke's Bay wine label.
A love of research and study drew Emma Taylor into the wine industry, but it’s the people who have kept her there.
As the second youngest of six kids, and the fourth generation on the land, Rippon's Nick Mills talks of his family's connection to a "ridiculously special place".
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