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The great stories and people that make up the New Zealand wine industry.
Pioneering Marlborough photographer and winemaker Kevin Judd has been named the 2025 Marlborough Living Cultural Treasure.
Emma Jenkins’ MW Musings
A collaboration between three friends is helping propel one of New Zealand’s most promising alternative varieties further into the limelight.
Nestled in the verdant hills of Upper Moutere, is one of New Zealand’s pioneering wineries. Founded in 1978 by Tim and Judy Finn, Neudorf Vineyards has long helped define what great Nelson wine looks like, gaining particular attention for its world-class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
There’s no one single recipe for careful winegrowing, said Craggy Range viticulturist Jonathan Hamlet. “But it is actually ok to cherry pick all the things that work.”
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”.
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.
The wine industry needs to stop “clinging to the debris of ‘fine wine’” and instead speak in a language future customers can relate to, Nigel Greening told attendees at Pinot Noir New Zealand 2025.
