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Grapevines on wire trellises, Hastings

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Grapevines on wire trellises, Hastings

New Zealand grapevines are trained onto tiers of horizontally arranged wires, to expose the leaves and fruit to maximum sunlight.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Viticulture – Vine management, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18313/grapevines-on-wire-trellises-hastings (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.