History
The roots of Brancott Estate can be considered as the roots of the entire New Zealand wine culture. It all started in 140s when an Dalmatian immigrant Ivan Yukich planted the first 0.5 acre vineyard in the west of Auckland in the 1940s. He named the vineyard Montana (Mountain in Dalmatian) as it was located high in the mountains of Waitakere Ranges. He sold his first Montana wine in 1952 and the rest is history. Montana Wines became the bigges...