Viticulture & Winemaking

The Marlborough region is the country’s largest winegrowing area and is at the forefront of New Zealand’s wine industry growth, producing over 75% of the country's wine and having more than 568 independent growers.

While studying you will be enabled to build close links with the local wineries and vineyards with field trips to experience all stages of wine production. Winemakers, viticulturists and industry specialists also come in as guest speakers. 

The NMIT winery and laboratories are situated within the Marlborough Wine Research Centre, established with support from local and national wine and viticulture industries. The centre is a collaboration between NMIT, universities, Bragato Research Institute, Plant and Food Research, the Marlborough District Council and the owner, the Marlborough Research Centre Trust.

With a supportive network of scientists conducting innovative research in viticulture and winemaking on campus, NMIT students are fortunate to rub shoulders with them, gain knowledge from their lectures and experience working on research projects from time to time. Read Ava's story(external link)

Our tutors are highly trained professionals with key expertise in viticulture and winemaking.

Meet our tutors(external link)

The team thrive on empowering students with quality education in a progressive, supportive environment and offer key networking, research, and event opportunities to support both personal growth and professional development.

NMIT offers students stellar scholarships from: 

• Bragato(external link)
• Constellation Brands(external link) 
• Wine Marlborough (external link)

Read Finn Horsfield and Sarah Tibbs story.(external link) We also offer a variety of scholarships that may not be based on your academic ability, check out which ones may work best for you.

• Cellar-hand or Supervisor
• Viticulture Researcher
• Winemaker

Find out more about these careers at career.govt.nz(external link)