It's a wide ranging and diverse conversation from Russian literature and life lessons to English cricket with some Hawkes Bay and Oregon influences. Christopher Keys is the Head Winemaker at Gibbston Valley Winery in the Central Otago.

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Malcolm Rees-Francis is the Winemaker at Rockburn Wines in the Central Otago. We chat about being born into a South Canterbury sheep-farming family and his studies and travels that led him to be making wine today.

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Renee talks about making wine in the Auckland region of New Zealand, the Moi brand and her wine journey so far..... and Cleopatra.

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In this episode Boris talks with Kirstin & Paul Wright, who came to Three Miners Vineyard in 1984 without wine making experience and have since added their own direction to the rich history of the land in Alexandra, Central Otago.

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Lee Winston is an Auckland based winemaker and founder of the Untitled brand. Red, white and rose blends are in the portfolio sourced from a variety of regions and years.

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Joelle Thomson is a journalist, wine writer and author, who was bitten by the big buttery Chardonnay bug at Aro Street Café in Wellington, New Zealand, in the late 1980s and has been in love with wine ever since.

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It was Nick’s father Rolfe Mills who began experimenting with grapes with the family having now been on the remarkable Wanaka property for 5 generations. The wine growing and production remains very much a family venture with a desire to listen to the land an inherited value.

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Working in & founding a number of businesses including Advertising and Media Mike eventually found himself owing land on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki gulf offshore from Auckland.

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In his teens Craig decided that wine may be a more interesting option to drink than lager and we talk with him about his journey starting in Central Otago, studying and working overseas and circling back around to Otago again.

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David Nash is the writer, producer and co-director of the upcoming feature length documentary about the NZ Wine industry and its place in the world of fine wine. ‘A Seat at the Table'. Find out more about the doco at nzwinestory.co.nz

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