Sales & Marketing Conference...and a Cranium Crown

The annual Craggy Range sales and marketing conference got underway last week with the Auckland and Wellington sales teams arriving in Hawke’s Bay to the region’s typical glorious summer weather. MORE

Tomatoes and Wine

A Connection to France's Atlantic Coast

A lesson on the similarities between Hawke’s Bay and Bordeaux

Sometimes in the winemakers game we tend to take things for granted in terms of what people know about wine. It is a careless error, even those of us who have been involved in making wine since leaving high school, have not, and never will, fully understand wine. That is part of the attraction. Wine is not a beverage concocted on the laboratory bench by smart food technologists, it is made from grapes, and that is about it. How can something made so simply be so different when grown in different places? Why do we as makers and marketers of wine make the understanding of something so simple, so complex?

Retro Chardonnay

Winter is a time where everyone changes their wine drinking habits, or at least you should. They say we should eat seasonally, I think we should drink seasonally as well. MORE

Our Iberian Heritage

I was sitting back thinking about John Hancock and his team at Trinity Hill for pioneering a new and potentially exciting red wine variety for Hawke’s Bay, Tempranillo, and I got thinking about Spain and its influence on Hawke’s Bay.