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 "id": "abel-clone",
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  "name": "Abel clone",
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   "Ata Rangi clone",
   "gumboot clone"
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 "region": [
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  "martinborough",
  "central-otago"
 ],
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  "what": "New Zealand's most-told vine story: a cutting confiscated at Auckland airport in the 1970s, handed to a customs officer who happened to make wine, propagated, and now planted the length of the country.",
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   "as": "And where it now grows, 900 km further south.",
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   "to": "massale-selection",
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 "updated": "2026-09-16",
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   "country": "New Zealand",
   "note": "the country pinot noir made its second home"
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   "key": "martinborough",
   "name": "Martinborough",
   "country": "New Zealand",
   "note": "Wairarapa gravels in the rain shadow of the Tararua Range"
  },
  {
   "key": "central-otago",
   "name": "Central Otago",
   "country": "New Zealand",
   "note": "the southernmost wine region on earth, and continental with it"
  }
 ],
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   "to": "central-otago",
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   "title": "New Zealand wine",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=3974835",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375093713",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
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   "tier": "tradition"
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   "from": "central-otago",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Central Otago",
   "as": "The cutting that walked through customs and changed New Zealand pinot.",
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