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About this Event After a year hiatus, the festival celebrating your favourite grape variety is BACK! Pinot Palooza is wine that ROCKS. Our line-up of Pinot producers are the best from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. So come, soak up the wine, music and taste your way across the #pinot spectrum. Now over multiple sessions to better manage crowds and enthusiasms! All the Pinot. All the chats. All the vibes. All the love. #PINOTPALOOZA Wineries include ... Akarua, Amisfield, Ata Rangi, Bald Hills, Burn Cottage, Butterworth, Carrick, Clos Henri, Cloudy Bay, Craggy Range, Dog Point, ...

Making the Case for New Zealand Reds BY REBECCA GIBB MW | MARCH 02, 2021 Almost a century before Pinot Noir found its feet in Central Otago and Martinborough, a Croatian-born viticulturist toured New Zealand to assess the potential for making wine. In 1895, Romeo Bragato visited the country’s fledgling vineyards, tasting the fruit and delivering his thoughts on the suitability of the climate and soils. In his Report on the Prospects of Viticulture in New Zealand, he declared that Central Otago, the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay were well adapted to wine production. In a later publication Bra...

Tipping point: Why are Kiwis drinking less NZ wine as exports soar? 19 minutes to read By: Michael Cooper Wine romance and greater quality are drawing us to vineyards, but as bulk exports soar and foreign firms move in, returns per litre are falling. And so is our consumption of New Zealand wine. Special Report by Michael Cooper. Wine is a symbol of the good times, but we enjoy it in times of stress, too. The challenges of the past year have seen many Kiwis reaching for a glass or two of wine – and we are not the only ones. Sales of New Zealand wine in its key export markets – th...