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Babich founded the Young
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Winemaker of the Year Award at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards, and at the 2013 New Zealand International Wine Show he received the Sir George Fistonich Medal for service to New Zealand wine. In the
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Babich was active as a wine judge for 35 years until retiring from that role in 1998. He was a six-time chair of judges at the Air New
Zealand Wine Awards, and also judged at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards.
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fermented and matured in barrels on its yeast lees. Babich was the firm's winemaker for 35 vintages, and took over as managing director in the mid-1990s.
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Babich died on 13 January 2022, at the age of 81, and was buried at
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