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

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.