— The paper presents some interim results from an ongoing research on the application of data/text mining methodologies being investigated to modelling the seasonal climate variability and its effects on the world famous Marlborough vintage wines. The research in an extension to the investigations thus far conducted on modelling the effects of seasonal climate variability on Kumeu wines and all the sub-projects contribute to an overarching project which is aimed at developing a suitable set of schemes/ procedures for the identification and characterisation of wines produced from New Zealand’s major wine regions. The distinctive New Zealand wine styles along with the regions from where the wines come from are initially elaborated. The major issues regarding the topic are; firstly, there is no single method that could be considered as the best way to establish the links between precise independent (climate/ weather) and the rather imprecise dependent (subjective wine quality) data se...