Category: New Zealand
Blend of innovation and marketing helps wine business flourish
When Kahurangi Estate was sold, it wasn’t your conventional sale. Three staff members purchased the brand and distribution portion of the business to carry on the winemaking and another couple came in with the marketing and innovation nous. This is how it has come together. Source: Stuff
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Marlborough predicts Sauvignon Blanc shortage
New Zealand, the world’s second largest producer of Sauvignon Blanc after France, may not be able to meet global demand in 2021 due to “an exceptionally small harvest.” Source: The Drinks Business
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New Zealand wine industry welcomes Government’s decision to recommence the movement of RSE workers from the Pacific
New Zealand Winegrowers welcomes the Government announcement today to recommence the movement of RSE workers from the Pacific to New Zealand. “The announcement today will help the New Zealand wine industry secure access to the supply of off-shore labour that we need, to ensure that we can continue to make premium quality wine. At least some […]
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New Zealand Frost Fans appoints new CEO
Andrew Priest to take the helm as the company implements growth plans. New Zealand Frost Fans has announced that Andrew Priest has been appointed new CEO of the company. An experienced business leader, Andrew will succeed Steve Haslett and assume responsibilities in June. Since 2007, Steve has transformed the business to become a significant exporter […]
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NZ: Wine companies to prioritise customers
A dearth of grapes this vintage has forced a family-owned winery in Marlborough to turn down a new customer in Europe. But it’s not just the smaller operations struggling. One of the biggest players in the global drinks industry, Pernod Ricard, is also reporting it is unable to meet the global demand for Marlborough wine […]
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Not enough wine to go around: Wine companies to prioritise customers
A dearth of grapes this vintage has forced a family-owned winery in Marlborough to turn down a new customer in Europe. But it’s not just the smaller operations struggling. One of the biggest players in the global drinks industry, Pernod Ricard, is also reporting it is unable to meet the global demand for Marlborough wine […]
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Concerns over NZ wine supply after small harvest
New Zealand Winegrowers has said that as this year’s wine harvest nears completion it looks like 2021 will be a vintage of excellent quality but will also leave wineries with challenges over supply to key markets in the year ahead.
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Hawke’s Bay hails trio of ‘outstanding’ vintages
Premium New Zealand wine region Hawke’s Bay has reported a third high quality vintage in a row, following “near perfect growing condition”. The small but multi-faceted region, best known for its Cabernets and Syrahs, experienced a cool snap during November, but with a generally warm and dry season, delivering smaller bunches and berries, concentrating aromas […]
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Accolade rebrands premium arm, adds NZ, South Africa
Accolade Wines has expanded the responsibility of its renamed premium wine unit to include New Zealand and South African brands. The company’s Fine Wine Partners division will be named Accolade Fine Wines and will include single vineyard varietals from New Zealand’s Mud House and South Africa’s Flagstone.
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The environmental hangover from NZ’s winemaking
Marlborough’s wine industry is booming, but there’s no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste. Sewage fungus is not what the wine industry wants people to think of when they sip a Sauvignon Blanc.
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Smaller vintage of exceptional quality
The New Zealand wine harvest is nearing completion, and a superb summer throughout most of the country means the industry is looking forward to a vintage of excellent quality, according to New Zealand Winegrowers. “All reports indicate the quality of the harvest so far is exceptional, and we are looking forward to some fantastic wines […]
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Planting the seed of vineyard diversity
When Bard Arnst first came to Marlborough in 1994, he found vineyards akin to a cricket pitch, with neatly mown rows of grass and headlands. Now he is one of the major grapegrowers on New Zealand’s organic front. Source: New Zealand Winegrower
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Automating estimates: AI to predict yields
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. Source: New Zealand Winegrower
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UK ‘close’ to trade deal with New Zealand that could lead to cheaper wine and meat
Britain is close to signing a free trade deal with New Zealand that could pave the way for cheaper wine and meat imports, it was reported. Source: inews
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Crops will rot if workers aren’t found
Central Otago’s horticulture sector fears fruit may be left to rot if a labour shortage isn’t filled soon. Source: RNZ
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Light ‘n’ Lovely: Low yields but high quality in vintage 2021
Grape yields across the country have taken a hit from poor flowering, but growers and winemakers are welcoming beautiful fruit and a kind ripening season. Source: New Zealand Grapegrower
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