Featured Wines of the Month

  Beth, as with her parents, John and Brigid was educated at Otago University where she gained a Bachelor of Science before heading to Adelaide University where she obtained her Masters in Oenology.

After a number of years travelling the world working in the wine industry, Beth returned home to Marlborough in 2013 to spend some more time developing her local knowledge and experience before joining the family business in 2015. Beth brings with her a wealth of knowledge, vibrancy, youth and an infectious passion for winemaking.

Beth has been tasked with the challenge of continuing the innovative, cutting edge and the sometimes mad scientist theories that have made Forrest what it is today. 

Anne was born in Carcassonne, in the south of France and Domaine Bousquet represents four generations having cultivated vines. Originally an economist, she eventually ended up taking on the role of CEO at Domaine Bousquet. In 2009, she moved to Argentina with her husband, buying vineyards in Gualtallary that sits at altitudes of 4,000 feet. Her wines are certified organic.

Anne is among the new generation of European immigrants who have continually influenced wines from Argentina and who were part of importing grape varieties such as Malbec for over a couple of centuries. The Vitis vinifera grape varieties (mainly European wine grapes) were said by Christy Canterbury to exist “since the early 16th century thanks to Spanish colonizers.” And Laura recognized that this was an important point as she expressed “in a way we are an “old world” like wine country making wine in the “new world”."

“The Ned” wines come from Marisco Vineyards, a 3rd generation family-owned winery in Marlborough New Zealand. Emma Marris heads up winemaking, and this wine is named after a local mountain in the Wither Hills of the Waihopai Valley, where Emma’s dad used to play as a boy. The wine was inspired by the carefree, young-at-heart sense of adventure that The Ned evokes. Emma completed winemaking internships at Bordeaux and The Loire Valley in France and returned to New Zealand to grow grapes and make wine at her family’s winery.

  The women of Broccardo Winery in the Langhe are sisters Laura and Federica Broccardo, who are co-owners along with their brother Filippo. The third-generation winemakers took over the family business in 2009 and are crucial to the winery's continued success. 

Laura Broccardo: Oversees sales and management for the winery.

Federica Broccardo: Manages the vineyards and works with the land. 

Laura, Federica, and Filippo inherited their passion for winemaking from their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. They have carried on the tradition of respecting the land and using natural techniques.

Focus on purity: The winery's production philosophy is centered on preserving the "purity" of each wine, without altering the grapes' natural characteristics. 

 Moccagatta is named after the land where the company is located. The name comes from the previous inhabitants of this hill, the Moncagatta family, who lived here until the early 1800s. From the mid-1800s, the Minuto family became the owners of this property and kept the name. 

Sergio’s daughter, Martina, was born during the time when the Langhe became famous worldwide, and since childhood, she has chosen to follow in her father’s footsteps with the family business. She attended the Oenological School in Alba and then majored in Viticulture and Oenology at the University of Turin in order to integrate family knowledge with science and new technologies.   Martina and the family continue the business with passion, adding their contributions without losing sight of history.

  For four generations Ca’ del Baio has been a family affair, as is the tradition in the Langhe. Nurtured and passed down from father to son, the vineyards surrounding the Grasso family farmhouse have been added to over time through marriage and acquisitions.

Today it is Giulio and Luciana who, together with their daughters Paola, Valentina and Federica, handle all the various areas of the business with passion and expertise, from the growing and vinification of the grapes, to hospitality and wine sales. The daughters have taken over the management of the winery from their parents, along with their mother, Luciana Rosselli Grasso. They are instrumental in the estate's operations, covering vineyard management, winemaking, hospitality, and sales, with their dedication to producing high-quality Barbaresco wines. 

  Benguela Cove Wine Estate's winemaker, Michelle Waldeck, was selected for the WineLand 30 Under 30 list 2024. This list showcases the rising stars, innovators, movers of change, and revenue generators in the South African wine industry.

Michelle's passion for winemaking blossomed during an internship at a well-known local winery. There, the textbook knowledge she'd learned came alive in the practical world. Stepping into the red wine cellar for the first time, something clicked - she knew this was her calling. That's also where she met Johann Fourie, Benguela Cove's head winemaker, whose team she joined seven years ago. Michelle quickly became part of the Benguela Cove family, mentored by both Johann and the winery's owner, Penny Streeter OBE.