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A trans-Pacific view of New Zealand wine

Wednesday 13 February 2013
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You can never revisit the past, but sometimes all you have to do is travel a little bit to be reminded of where you've been.

I've just spent the past three weeks in New Zealand attending three of the country's major wine conferences, the Hawke's Bay Symposium, the New Zealand Pinot Noir conference in Wellington, and the Nelson Aromatics Symposium. These events were opportunities to check in on the state of New Zealand wine and how it might have changed in the eight years since I last visited, but they also provided cause for some reflection on how wine industries...

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