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Palliser Hua Nui awarded 97 points and Platinum at Decanter World Wine Awards 2026
Martinborough, Wairarapa, New Zealand, 18 June 2026 – Palliser Estate is proud to announce that its Hua Nui Pinot Noir 2024 has been…
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Martinborough Access Reference Group
For those who have not heard of the Martinborough Access Reference Group (MARG) before, the group is made up of local volunteers…
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Nectar by name and by taste – meet the Huntress
Wild mood swings, cool edges and fierce winds are the tip of the challenging iceberg that is the Wairarapa’s weather these days…
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The New Hostility Toward Wine
Public attitudes toward alcohol – and wine in particular – have shifted sharply in recent years. Once seen as a cultural pleasure,…
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AI: Opportunity, Concern and What Comes Next?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) shares more than an acronym with artificial insemination. Both are quietly transforming rural New Zealand through science-driven improvement, even…
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Commercial Forestry
Commercial forestry is essential to New Zealand. We need timber for housing, packaging, infrastructure, furniture, and increasingly as a lower-emissions substitute for…
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London wine show awards top trophies to Nga Waka
One of the smallest vineyards in Martinborough has produced a Pinot Noir that scaled new heights in London last month, winning four…
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Wine column
There’s something to be said for Pinot Noir clones and New Zealand winemakers have had plenty to say about them over the…
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Vintage 2026 in a unicorn region
Martinborough’s winemakers had nearly picked all their grapes at the end of April, dodging weather bullets and nail biting rain in the…
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Rabbit by Coney opened in Martinborough – a new kind of cellar door experience
Martinborough’s wine scene welcomed a fresh and slightly unexpected addition earlier this month, with the opening of Rabbit by Coney – a…
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More than a desk: Why shared work spaces matter
For the past three years, I’ve owned and run a shared workspace at 51 Jellicoe Street in Martinborough. What began as a…
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Cropping in the Wairarapa
The sweeping changes of Rogernomics in 1984 created havoc in the farming industry. SMPs, or Supplementary Minimum Payments which had been introduced…
