American sommelier tries his hand as Marlborough vintage intern
Weinlese, vendange, szuret, and there are other examples in many other languages to say the same thing … “vintage”. In a small town called Blenheim, in the South Island of New Zealand within the Marlborough wine growing region, thousands of people from all over the world come together for one thing: the systematic killing and fermentation of vitis vinifera (wine grapes).