New wine countries need heroes... George Fistonich crept cautiously onto the New Zealand wine scene in 1961 when he released Villa Maria Hock into a less than ecstatic marketplace. Over the next 25 years, he massively expanded his company, nearly lost in once, and got it back through sheer bloody-mindedness. That was 1985, and that was the last time George would let Villa lose sight of qualitty as its ultimate goal...