Story: Wine

Exporting bulk Müller-Thurgau

Staff from Montana Wines fill 200-litre drums with Wohnsiedler Müller-Thurgau wine, ready for export to Denmark, in 1986. New Zealand growers had bumper vintages in the 1980s, leading to a wine glut. Some large growers managed to export surplus wine, but a number of small wineries failed to find a market for their product and went out of business.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Bronwyn Dalley, Wine – Foundations for the future, 1960s to mid-1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18356/exporting-bulk-muller-thurgau (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Dalley, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Jazz
13 January 2014

Hi, I have 1 bottle of Muller Thurgau from 1988. What would it be worth and how should I go about selling it ? Thanks.