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Clive Dougall

Clive Dougall

Co-founder and winemaker of Deep Down Wines, a B Corp-certified organic wine label in Marlborough, New Zealand, and Chair of Organic Winegrowers NZ.

Sep 11, 2026

6:31
Uh, and I just thought, "Oh, yeah, brilliant, finally got some freedom to do your own thing." And so hit me, how did it start, Clive, you know?
6:37
With Deep Down, [clears throat] well, as you say, I spent a long time at Seresin, so it was 12 years, and it was, like, the most formative times of my life in terms of making wine, et cetera.
6:44
It was the first serious, you know, job I actually ever had, and I was thrown in at the deep end at the age of, well, 30 or something like that.
6:53
And maybe I'd been out of university for two and a half years and got this gig that was just ridiculous, and it was sink or swim time.
6:59
Um, and yeah, absolutely loved every moment of it, you know.
7:03
And 12 years later, yeah, the business changed and, uh, and, and Michael was looking to, uh, downsize basically.
7:09
And so-

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50:02
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