Fin Grieve

Mt Beautiful’s first full-time vineyard manager, Fin Grieve, comes to our vineyard with a wealth of life experience and a passion for viticulture. A South Island native, he worked mostly overseas in a variety of roles. In 1991, he moved to Marlborough, where he began working in horticulture to satisfy his long-held interest to work with the land. Here he got his first taste of viticulture and decided to specialise in the field, completing the National Certificate in Grape Growing and Winemaking at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Hawke’s Bay. Fin has since then gone on to gain strong viticultural experience, including being part of a team that developed the first large-scale high-density vineyard in Marlborough, challenging conventional systems and practices, as well as implementing new technological advances. After more than seven years in that role, he decided to take on a new challenge joining the Mt Beautiful team in Cheviot Hills to ensure that the vineyard reaches its enormous potential and that winemaker Sam Weaver gets to work with the best possible fruit.