Dirt and Rocks... the Soul of Great Wine. 09/04/2015 | by Steve Smith
2015 is the International Year of Soils as declared by the 68th UN General Assembly to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of soil for food security and essential ecosystems functions.
At Craggy Range we revere the impact of soils in our wines and do everything we can in the vineyard to ensure the health of the soil can contribute to the characte...
The story of Craggy Range began with the desire to create a legacy. What happened next, surpassed even the expectations of the family who started it.
When Terry Peabody arrived home from a four-week business trip in the fall of 1993 his wife Mary, and daughter Mary-Jeanne, cooked him dinner. The meal was long and leisurely, but not without purpose. Terry wasn't allowed to leave until he had agreed to go into the wine business. The specifica...
Terry and Steve looked for land and pinpointed some special places. Gimblett Gravels in the Hawke's Bay on the east coast of New Zealand was an area with the perfect growing conditions for Bordeaux reds and particularly Syrah. The spectacularly beautiful Tukituki valley had the soil for Chardonnay and would be the ideal home base from which to build a new kind of winery.
A further search began for a vineyard that could produce a unique...
The founders of Craggy Range made a bold decision from the beginning - to pursue the Single Vineyard Philosophy of winemaking, with the ambition to produce not just the greatest wine New Zealand makes, but the greatest wines the world makes.
The thinking behind producing only single vineyard wines is that while every piece of land has potential, those with special soils and unique interactions with their meso-climate can produce wines with ...
Terry is Chairman and owner of the company, providing the direction, resources, business acumen and determination for growth. By any measure, East Coast American born Terry is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs with his success in building waste management and transportation companies and business interests extending from the USA and Canada to Europe, Asia Australia and New Zealand.
As Founder of Transpacific Industries L...
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