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After nine months, Villa Maria has been bought by New Zealand-owned wine company Indevin, which says it plans further investment in the brand. Privately owned Indevin makes wines for wineries …

Villa Maria set to be sold to Indevin Read More

Rockburn Wines opens its new tasting room, the Rockburn Stables, at the Gibbston Tavern this week – just in time for the start of the ski season and school holidays. After …

Rockburn Stables opens at Gibbston Tavern in time for winter Read More

Looking at some of the figures released recently about the 2021 vintage – overall harvest was down 19% across the country, although Central Otago recorded an increase of 21%. This …

Reports on the 2021 vintage Read More

Hawke’s Bay winery Sacred Hill has been put up for sale by its receivers. A notice in Friday’s edition of the Hawke’s Bay Today newspaper said the receivers of Sacred Hill were looking …

Sacred Hill winery for sale Read More

News of a new wine tasting competition over the weekend – The New Zealand Sommeliers and Wine Professionals will hold a series of regional competitions in June/July 2021 to bring people together …

New Zealand Wine Tasting Competition Read More

Judging for the Royal Easter Show was a close-run thing – back in February we’d just come out of another Level-3 lockdown in Auckland which had restricted travel, leaving organisers …

Royal Easter Show Wine Awards 2021 results (and lunch) Read More

Established in 1985, Negociants New Zealand is a distributor of premium wines from New Zealand and around the world. At the 2021 Negociants Fine Wine Tour, they will present a …

Negociants Fine Wine Tour 2021 Read More

A new release from Lorraine Leheny and Warren Gibson’s Bilancia label – I’m very keen to hear how this wine that we talked about in our epic interview in December …

New release: Bilancia Uvaggio 2020 Read More

I’m sure that this bit of news will be of interest to WineFolio readers… The winning wine of our recent Top 10 Tasting of Syrah was The Landing Syrah 2017, and …

A weekend with the winemakers Read More

Elephant Hill winery, located in Te Awanga, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand has announced the appointment of award-winning winemaker Hugh Crichton. Hugh will replace Steve Skinner who, after 15 years at …

Hugh Crichton appointed Head Winemaker at Elephant Hill Read More