University seeing first fruits of vine experiment

In a country known for its white wines, one New Zealand college is trying to grow against the grain. A team of professors and students from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) are in the first round of harvesting several new cold-weather reds, an anomaly in the land of Sauvignon Blanc. “The new plantings over the past three years have mainly been focused on trialing different cool climate reds,” the university said in a press released published by news site Scoop.