June 30, 2009

NZ - another bumper harvest

As predicted in Marlborough 2009 - another glut, official figures suggest that the 2009 vintage will be about as big as last year's enormous harvest in New Zealand, swollen by huge crop levels in Marlborough and new plantings virtually all over the country. The signs are that it is only by dint of heavy crop thinning that the total will not be more than 2008's 285,000 tonnes of grapes.