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Vintage punctuates our year. In a good way. It’s late summer leading into autumn, we’re watching the weather by the hour and gearing up to pick. The days will be shorter and cooler when we emerge out the other side…
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A blog post from Nigel Greening
I wrote this piece a few months ago on ecosystems and have been wondering what to do with it. If you read it, consider this: the world is an ecosystem and global…
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An occasional blog post from Nigel Greening.
I spent a pleasing day recently with Professor Warren Morran, who is close to completing his book on terroir. For those who don’t know this internationally acclaimed thinker, he takes a very broad…
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In an extended family group, there may be many wise members, with experience behind them, happy to offer a gentle guiding hand to younger or more unruly brothers and sisters.
This is the case within the Family of Twelve, where…
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By far the three largest employers in New Zealand are the baking industry, the brewers and the wine makers. Admittedly they don’t pay all their workers minimum wage, but even the smallest winery takes on an extra hundred…
Robert Smith
The National Business Review / July 17, 2009
The Family of 12 might sound like something out of a gangster movie, with mobsters deciding matters of life and death…
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Occasional posts based on Family conversations
by Nigel Greening
Mid-winter is a time for contemplation. There are over 100,000 vines to prune and I wake up each morning contemplating with some satisfaction that…
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People in New Zealand may think of the wine industry as being one big family with similar hopes and ambitions.
Well, it isn’t like that.
As a winery which crushes 180 tonnes I wouldn’t have a clue what is feels…
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FoodWine with Tony Harper- Brisbane News August 13-19, 2008
A group of New Zealand vineyards comes together to talk up top-flight pinot noir
It’s always an interesting weekend when members of New Zealand’s self-formed vinous elite –…
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The Sunday Business Post
Sunday, June 22, 2008 – By Tomás Clancy
In California and the Asia Pacific region a new, superwealthy set has been born – that of the environmental millionaire.
They have earned their money not in…
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