Northland, Gisborne, and Marlborough are wine-growing areas in which country?
New Zealand wine New Zealand wine New Zealand wine is produced in several mostly maritime, cool climate wine growing regions of New Zealand, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. Like many other New World wines, it is usually produced and labelled as single varietal wines, or if blended the varietal components are listed on the label. New Zealand is famous for its Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, and more recently its dense, concentrated Pinot Noir from Marlborough, Martinborough and Central Otago. Whilst wine has been made in New Zealand since the early 19th century, the modern wine industry in New Zealand began in
Marlborough (New Zealand electorate) created for the first time, including Marlborough. The Marlborough electorate replaced the electorate, which had more or less the same shape as Wairau had had since the 1927 electoral redistribution. For the purposes of the country quota, the 1936 census had determined that some 27% of the population lived in urban areas, and the balance in rural areas. Settlements that were covered by the original electorate included Havelock, Picton, Blenheim, and Kaikoura. The area is noted for growing grapes for white wine. The electorate was created in 1938, replacing the Wairau electorate. Edwin Meachen of the Labour Party, who had