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South River Vines, Viticulture Nursery, Central Otago, New Zealand Grafted Grapevines

About South River Vines

South River Vines (SRV) is owned and operated by brothers Frank, Michael and Tony Sullivan, and Wendy Williams. We believe there is a need for locally grown grafted vines of high quality particularly suited to Central Otago conditions.



Frank Sullivan DipHort
General Manager and Co-founder

General Manager and Horticulturalist, Frank Sullivan has 30 years experience specialising in the propagation grafting and budding of woody plants and trees. He has been involved in the wholesale and retail horticultural industry for over 30 years.

He previously taught horticulture at Telford Rural Polytechnic for 12 years, and owned a nursery for 10 years growing roses and farm shelter trees for retail and wholesale customers. Frank has developed techniques for accelerated greenwood production and has led the development of the new nursery on the Pisa site. He also supervises the day-to-day running of the nursery.

Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan



Dr Michael Sullivan
Mike Sullivan

Dr Michael Sullivan FRACP PhD
Executive Director and Co-founder

Dr Michael Sullivan is dual trained as Specialist Medical Practitioner and a Scientist. He has a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology and is a co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board Member of Pacific Edge Biotechnology Ltd (Dunedin).

He is director of a molecular biology research laboratory in the University of Otago School of Medicine specialising in the application of new genomic technologies to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. He is able to apply a very broad background knowledge of disease pathology and genetics to ensuring South River Vines produces genetically verified and disease free grafted vines. Dr Sullivan is responsible for establishing disease surveillance practices within the company.




Tony Sullivan and Dr Wendy Williams
Directors and Co-founders

Tony Sullivan and his partner Wendy Williams currently reside in Townsville and hope to become involved in the day-to-day operation of the company in the near future.



 


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