Wine is an addictive but also increasingly tough business for small to medium players like Marlborough Wine Limited (MWL), which the Auckland-based Joyce family runs.
In August, MWL announced that it had merged with boutique winery Staete Landt Wines, owned by Dutch immigrant Ruud Maasdam.
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