Wine experts at Lincoln

Press, 26 January 1988, Page 4

Wine experts at Lincoln

Experts in the wine industry from throughout the world were at Lincoln College yesterday for talks on developing wine areas.

The grape-growing seminar organiser, Mr David Jackson, a reader at Lincoln College, said the day was not a first for the college but had attracted the most overseas speakers.

The seminar, which will continue today with visits to Canterbury vineyards, included experts from Switzerland, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand.

Speakers dealt with specific problems facing growers in areas and vine development needs.

The director of the New Zealand Soil Bureau, Dr Derek Milne, spoke on new wine areas in this country, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

Mr Jackson said the seminar had been a great success and the college was expecting to offer a course in viticulture next said Canterbury was

one of the newer areas and had good, potential.

The future for New Zealand wine looked good with an increasing emphasis on quality.

He said the conference was particularly valuable for growers in the newer areas.

The seminar had been organised in conjunction with the Second International Cool Climate Symposium on Viticulture and. Oenology, held in Auckland recently. Many of the Auckland speakers had been invited to Lincoln College.

He said the Lincoln seminar had attracted a selection of overseas visitors and local growers, with about 80 people attending yesterday. Speakers included Dr Milne, Mr Jackson, Mr Werner Koblet, the chairman of the viticulture unit at a horticultural research station near Zurich, Switzerland, Dr Helen Fisher, a research scientist from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, from Ontario, Canada, and Mr Norbet Becker, a West German scientist.