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Spy Valley Wines Appoints Long-Serving Team Member Adam McCone as General Manager Spy Valley Wines is delighted to announce the promotion of Adam McCone to General Manager, recognising his 25 years of commitment to the family-owned Marlborough winery. Having joined the business on 5 November 2001, Adam has been part of an extraordinary chapter in Spy Valley’s history - witnessing the winery’s growth, the evolution of the New Zealand wine industry and the many changes that come with building a family business across generations.  Over that time, Adam has become much more than a long-serving member of the team. He...

Podcast Link 27 October 2026, Luxembourg - Read Between the Wines announces Episode 104, a conversation with Amanda Johnson, Managing Director of Spy Valley, the Marlborough estate her father planted on land everyone else had written off, now one of New Zealand’s most decorated wine producers. In 1993, Amanda Johnson’s father planted vines in Marlborough’s Waihopai Valley on land most people considered too infertile for anything worth growing. The estate’s first vintage followed in 2000. It was Amanda who later named the winery, pitching her father on pairing the GCSB listening post down the road with his own lifelong James Bond...

Spy Valley Wines continues as a consistent performer. Spy Valley Wines is celebrating an exceptional year, taking home seven gold medals for seven wines at the prestigious London Wine Competition and being named New Zealand’s Winery of the Year. The recognition reflects decades of commitment to quality, from its Marlborough vineyards through to winemaking, bottling and distribution. With a focus on consistency, quality and expressing the character of its unique vineyards, Spy Valley continues to strengthen Marlborough’s reputation on the global wine stage.    READ FULL ARTICLE

The 2026 harvest at Spy Valley has now wrapped, leaving us with a strong sense of pride in what has been a rewarding and character-filled vintage. This season was defined by teamwork and precision, resulting in expressive fruit and wines already showing excellent promise. The growing season began earlier than anticipated, although cooler conditions through January and February slowed the pace of ripening. This slower start proved beneficial, allowing the vines to progress steadily and giving both vineyard and winery teams time to carefully plan and manage intake across all six of our varieties. Mid-January delivered nearly 100mm of rain,...