#21 - Embracing a bit of chaos with Richard Leask and Nick Paulin

Nick Paulin

Richard Leask

Australian wine grower Richard Leaske joins Nick Paulin, national viticulturist for Aotearoa New Zealand Fine Wine Estates. They discuss the shift in customer attention from product to process and the importance of transparent story-telling.

Richard and Nick also share about their low-cost easy wins, being clear on your intention, and measuring outcomes. Plus optimizing the free power of photosynthesis, and undies in the ground…

Weaved throughout the conversation are their opportunistic mindsets, critical questioning, and having the confidence to learn by doing. It’s about shifting the needle of what we know by letting go of perfection to embrace a bit of chaos!

Enjoy the episode!

“It’s been more about the product, now it’s more about the process, and the product is the outcome from that. It’s a redesign, so we have to explain it.

“And people – when they hear it – go ‘wow, that’s pretty interesting, that’s a different way of doing it, tell me more about it’. And it opens up a much bigger conversation about how it’s done and what we can do.”