The vintner's bad luck

The vintner's bad luck

Kudos, Kiwis, for dramatically dropping your alcohol consumption – especially our younger generations. But the wine industry wants words. “In the last 10 to 15 years, each of us, on average, have slashed our consumption of New Zealand wine by 50 percent. I mean, that is dramatic,” says wine writer Michael Cooper. He used to write best-selling wine bibles on the industry here – not so any more. There isn’t the demand. Cooper describes the situati…