Craggy Range Te Muna Road Vineyard Pinot Noir

It’s a little over twenty years since Craggy Range opened their doors and set about becoming one of Hawke’s Bay and Aotearoa’s most iconic, premium producers. It takes a certain somebody with the nouse, skills (and cash!) to get that off the ground. Not just a somebody, a Peabody.

US Billionaires Terry and Mary Peabody launched the now world famous Craggy Range back in 1998. The state of the art winery sits at the foot of the spectacular Te Mata Peak there in Hawke’s Bay along with their multi-award winning winery restaurant and no expense spared luxury winery lodge and cottage accommodation.

The Craggy Range owner was once known as the “Golden Garbo” for turning other people’s garbage/rubbish into his multi billion dollar fortune through his Aussie waste management business. We can promise you that’ll be the only sentence you’ll ever read with the words ‘rubbish’ and ‘Craggy range’ in it. Craggy boast a world class line-up of wines that deserves every bit of praise they get.

This latest 2021 vintage is a real beauty. Scoring 95/100 with Master of Wine Bob Campbell, who said “Fragrant, silken-textured pinot noir with rose petal, dark cherry, plum and classy oak flavours. Elegant wine from a favourable vintage. Can be appreciated now but should develop well with bottle age.”

This Pinot comes from fruit from a single vineyard, their Te Muna Road vineyard in Martinborough. Using all hand picked fruit this is typical of a Te Muna label Pinot and full of rich complex flavours, this is quite some wine. Drink now to 2030.