BEAUTY IN DIVERSITY

Our member vineyards afford us the luxury of different soils across Marlborough. This means our wines span a breadth of tastes. The highest vineyard is at 203 metres, the lowest at sea level. So we have early and late ripening areas with the span of at least a month. We offer the full breadth of taste profiles of Marlborough grapes ranging from Wairau to Awatere.

Our vineyards are higher up in the Wairau Valley located in alluvial soils of the world revere bed.

Here you find the stoniest soils, with large rounded river stones, called greywacke, and a thin top layer of sandy loam.

Farther down the river valley the soils become more loamy and as a consequence have higher water retention.

These southern valleys are glacial with more clay soils and wind-blown loess.

In the Awatere valley the vineyards are seated on large river terraces with gravel, silt-loam and wind-blown loess soils.