News from New Zealand

There’s almost a surfeit of news from New Zealand this morning. And I don't mean cricket, or the current likelihood of a pretty good 2008 harvest.

 

The extremely effective chief winemaker of Spy Valley Ant Mackenzie is moving on after eight years of making some of the South Island’s most reliable and best-value wines to the Mud House Group, also based in Marlborough.

 

You could argue that successful Marlborough wineries are ten a penny. New Zealand wineries with a 10 year-old reputation for fine, dense, complex reds are a distinct rarity, which is perhaps part of the reason...