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Vintage 2022 has officially begun for Babich Wines.

When the first lot arrives in a couple weeks from now, the team need to be ready to give them the welcome they deserve.

With summer drawing to a close, soon it will be time for our vines to reward us.

The Babich family is mourning the passing of husband, father, grandfather, and New Zealand wine industry pioneer, Joe Babich, who passed away on 13 January 2022 aged 81.

We love summer….and so do the worrisome weeds

Before wine, we need grapes. And before grapes, we need flowers.

Wine is something of a time machine. When you drink it, it’s a celebration of the present, but the wine is also an encapsulation of the past.

There’s no better way to finish a hard day’s work than with a plunge into that cool, fresh and pure mountain water.

Working with the environment like we do, we have a deep appreciation of its interconnected and circuitous nature.

Babich has created a special limited release wine to help CureKids celebrate their Golden Jubilee and 50th anniversary

It starts with caring for the land and the vines. You need great land, to grow great grapes, to make great wine.

We’ve set the audacious goal of increasing the size of our organic vineyard estates by 50% in the next three to five years. Converting conventional vineyards to organic is a long process...

With all of our grapes now in the winery, our 2021 vintage is starting to take shape, and it's looking delicious...

Wine companies typically throw away up to a quarter of their harvest every year.

We’re lucky in many ways.

We love heat in the vineyard. But in the winery… not so much.

It’s time to give back.

We keep going at it hard until every grape is in the winery.

With the last grapes of the 2021 harvest coming into the winery, comes the day of reckoning.

Rain back in November 2020 is paying huge dividends in our Hawke’s Bay vineyards nearly four months later.

Challenges are nothing new to us – we’re always contending with the weather, and that can be a fickle beast!

Grapes are like honoured guests in the winery.

Winegrowers can be a finicky lot.

Good leaf cover up top and moisture in the soil below is setting up our Hawke’s Bay vineyards for a great run-up to the 2021 harvest.

We’re going underground with the slogan: “Water to the roots!”

For most of us, the festive season is a time to sit back, pour a glass of wine and enjoy a relaxed time with friends and family.

Our winemakers are determined to do less and less work, especially on our organic wines.

You can’t hear it, but all over our vineyards, engines are starting up.

He’s a wild one, but we like his character.

For everything there is a season. There was a season for stripping down the vineyard.

It’s spring, and on our vineyards, they’re preparing for the cold.

At Babich, we’re so sustainably minded that we even recycle our vineyards!

Each wine captures something of the time of its making.

It takes a lot of water to make a glass of wine. But that amount is already reducing in our Marlborough winery.

The first wine produced from our 2020 vintage will be our Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

When it comes to plants, we’re rather partial to Vitis vinifera.

The Kiwi spirit of number 8 wire is alive and well on our Marlborough vineyards.

Simply the best. The Tina Turner song that has become the staple of weddings and team building days aptly describes the 2020 New Zealand grape harvest too.

To preserve the distinct qualities of different wines, we keep them separate.

The best harvest in ten years under probably the strangest conditions.

Most every year, we start harvest with Irongate Chardonnay.

As we approach harvest and the grapes go through veraison, they don’t only get attractive to us humans.

If you’re feeling a bit parched on a hot summer’s day, just imagine how thirsty the vines can get.

After making wine for more than 100 years, like we have at Babich, you get a different perspective.