50 Years, 50 Stories

50 Years, 50 Stories is not a chronological, historical account of those 50 years – instead it is stories from the people who were there in the early days and the years that followed. From the trailblazers to the lifetime achievers, relive the ups and downs of a region that has become one of the most famous wine brands in the world.
Tessa Anderson arrived in Marlborough in 1980, left to work in Christchurch in ‘82 but came back in 1983. Initially working as a current affairs announcer on Radio, she moved to the Marlborough Express in 1996, where she was given the wine round. Little did she know she would be writing about Marlborough’s wine industry for the next 20 years, as general reporter, then Editor of Winepress, Marlborough’s industry magazine and later as editor of New Zealand Winegrower.