We are the industry association for commercial non-grape winemakers. Our members include cider, fruit wine, mead and liqueur producers and range from high volume operations to small boutique producers.
The association was started in the early 80’s when the NZ Fruit Wine Industry was booming and for the last 30 odd years has organized the annual Fruit Wine and Cider Awards. More recently with the phenomenal growth in popularity of Cider the association decided in 2015 the Awards needed to be split into the NZ Cider Awards and the NZ Fruit Wine Awards and Cider New Zealand was born.
Aside from organizing the annual Awards the Association is also responsible for representing the interests of the industry to legislative bodies. The Association also fully supports the only annual Cider specific Festival; The NZ Cider Festival held for the first time in 2016 in Nelson.
See more about the NZ Fruit Wine Awards
See the Cider NZ website
The association was started in the early 80’s when the NZ Fruit Wine Industry was booming and for the last 30 odd years has organized the annual Fruit Wine and Cider Awards. More recently with the phenomenal growth in popularity of Cider the association decided in 2015 the Awards needed to be split into the NZ Cider Awards and the NZ Fruit Wine Awards and Cider New Zealand was born.
Aside from organizing the annual Awards the Association is also responsible for representing the interests of the industry to legislative bodies. The Association also fully supports the only annual Cider specific Festival; The NZ Cider Festival held for the first time in 2016 in Nelson.
See more about the NZ Fruit Wine Awards
See the Cider NZ website
