Wine Technology in New Zealand Vol 4 No 3

wine technology in New Zealand Volume 4 No. 3

June/July 2006

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CONTENTS

1. Pruning season labour pressures. Government and the wine industry have pulled out all the stops for this year's pruning season - looking to provide enough workers to meet what has traditionally been a difficult labour sector.

2. Hawke's Bay wine country in positive mode. International wine buyers are seeking out the best of the Bay's classic varieties, and growers and winery owners are in a 'bullish' mood.

3. Global market worries. A record vintage in terms of both quantity and quality could turn out to be a mixed blessing for some wineries, with fears of a glut of bargain basement wines hitting the market.

4. Winery engineering conference. Australia ’s Winery Engineering Association is making another trip across the Tasman, this time to stage the New Zealand Conference & Tour 2006 event. It is due to be held on August 17 and 18 at the Montana Brancott Winery in Blenheim.

5. Marlborough the wine capital of NZ. New wineries are springing up all over the country and old ones expanding as national wine production reaches new highs almost every year. DAN HUTCHINSON looks at some of the new wineries and some of the innovations being employed by winemakers.

6. Screw cap survey seeks global opinion. Auckland wine writer Paul Tudor who is working towards his Master of Wine qualification, is attempting to put the screw cap issue into sharper perspective with an on-line global survey.

7. New technologies, but barrels here to stay. With all the innovation and new technology in the wine industry, it’s comforting to know that some time-honoured traditions will always be with us, not least the use of oak barrels for fermenting and maturing wine.

8. Getting to grips with pruning - one of the most costly vineyard tasks. A technical article.

9. Great Scott! Winemaker Allan Scott looks back at 33 successful years in the New Zealand wine industry.

10. Wood, steel and concrete posts. Vineyards are facing tough choices as the issue of arsenic leaching from vine posts refuses to go away.

11. Auckland exhibition offers '100 wineries'. A new venue, a free seminar series and a line-up of 100 New Zealand wineries are promised for Wine New Zealand 2006.