Since the early 2000s, the amount of land planted in wine grapes throughout New Zealand has increased by a whopping 100 per cent. In the last 12 years, according to Statistics New Zealand, between the years 2002 and 2014, the area of land planted in grapes has leapt from 17,300 hectares to 34,130 hectares. Statistics have also been released for areas planted in apples, cherries, blackcurrants, avocados and kiwifruit over the same period.

The CEO of The New Zealand Winegrowers said in a recent article that “there had been a rapid increase in plantings between 2002 and 2008, but then a hiatus until 2013 when plantings renewed. The period 2009-2012 had seen sales catch up with the areas planted. The biggest focus for plantings had been Marlborough over the 2002 to 2014 period, but the region would soon expand into its natural limit”.

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