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Founder of New Zealand’s modern wine industry
- Frank Yukich, the founder of New Zealand’s modern wine industry, died peacefully on Tuesday 20th October at the age of 88. He was extraordinarily competitive, charismatic, very driven and always prepared to take a gamble if the odds were in his favour and the stakes were high enough.
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Dec 22, 2020 · Frank Yukich. More than any other single person, Frank Yukich changed our sector to the internationally respected force it is today. I owe a special debt to Frank, who brought me into the sector in 1971 as National Sales Manager for Montana Wines Ltd.
- Terry Dunleavy
US drinks company Seagram had just bought a 40% stake in leading winery Montana whose founder, Frank Yukich, was looking for new vineyard land. A chance meeting with 29-year-old scientist Wayne Thomas, from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, was to prove pivotal.
It’s the story of Marlborough, the iconic New Zealand wine region which is celebrating its 50th wine birthday, after vines were planted by Frank Yukich in August 1973. Yukich had risked personal financial ruin getting to this point.
Frank Yukich: pioneer of Marlborough wine industry. Until the 1970s, the conventional wisdom was that the South Island was too cold to grow grapes. In 1973, Frank Yukich sparked the modern wine industry in Marlborough when he went against the grain and bought up farmland for vineyards.
May 19, 2024 · Then in 1973 a man called Frank Yukich, secretly bought 1,600 hectares of land in Marlborough. Yukich was the founder and part-owner of a successful wine company called Montana.
It has been 50 years since the first commercial wine grapes were planted in Marlborough, when Montana Wines founder Frank Yukich claimed wine from the region would become world famous. He was...
