The most expensive element in a vineyard is the labor required to produce the grapes, but for Kim Crawford and other New Zealand wineries, laborers are also scarce. With annual labor requirements in the range of 24,000 people, Marlborough grape growers were still looking for upwards of 1,000 extra workers last winter. Battling the same shortage of skilled labor faced by their counterparts across the developed world, New Zealand wineries just can’t find enough people to prune their vines each winter. “We don’t have enough people to do the pruning,” said Erica Crawford, co-founder of the Marlborough-region winery during a […]