NEW ZEALAND - WINE IN 10

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Today we are talking about one of the newest New World winemaking countries that has shocked the world a few decades ago and is today already one of the wine world's classics. You know the saying: I am on the other side of the world but if I would dig a tunnel you would hit water but the closest country to swim to would be New Zealand. New Zealand is pretty far away from everything. Even Australia is roughly 2000 km away.
Being far, far away was also one of the reasons why I worked a harvest in New Zealand in 2007. It therefore also took a while until the first vines arrived here. The first vineyard was planted in 1819 by Reverend Samuel Marsden on the north coast but the first wine on record was made by James Busby, who was also influential for the Australian wine scene. He planted a vineyard north of Auckland in 1836.
But this was not the beginning of a meteoric rise of the Kiwi Wine Industry. Instead, the production of wine was low and there were strong restrictions on the consumption of alcohol throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.