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New Zealand's wine is quirky, exciting and worth studying

Like the sometimes-confounding, hard-to-reach yet always-enchanting Bret and Jemaine of the "Flight of the Conchords" television series, New Zealand is sort of out there on its own, mysterious and captivating. We're talking about two islands, inextricably linked, yet with quirky underdog identities all their own. And that very same description could apply to their home country of New Zealand. Hi-yo.

New Zealand is a country that knows isolation as few others do. Australia is about 1,000 miles away, and that's

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