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The Bragato Research Institute has just celebrated a year since its opening. Winegrowers and those in the wine supply chain can have their products and technology tested at the shiny new lab in Blenheim, named after an early 20th century viticulturalist who saw much potential in New Zealand for wine.
If Romeo Bragato were alive today, he’d be pleased as punch to visit the Bragato Research Institute, a wine laboratory set up in his name just on a year ago.
The European viticulturalist was said to be disillusioned and frustrated when he left New Zealand in the early 1900s.
His experimental winemaking here and advice to the government on planting grapevines was largely ignored and his recommendations lay forgotten for over 60 years.
But eventually his studies and experiments formed the basis of the modern day wine industry which is keeping ahead nowadays with help from the Blenheim-based institute, launched with government funds and owned by New Zealand Winegrowers.
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