Grapes: Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
Region: Nelson, New Zealand
Vintage: 2022
Viticulture: Organic
Soils: Alluvial + Clay + Gravel
Vinification: Fermented in old puncheons, aged for a year, then in stainless steel. Refermented with the next years base wine, then disgorged after 10 months on lees
Aging: 1 year in barrel + 10 months on lees
Fining or Filtering: Disgorged
Sulfur: None added
Notes from the Importer: Alex Craighead Wines are the product of Alex Craighead and Josefina Venturino. Alex, born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, studied wine at Lincoln University and soon after began to travel the world working across many wine regions. In 2008 he met Josefina, a landscape architect from Argentina and after living around the world for a few years, they returned to New Zealand.
Drawn to low intervention wines and winemaking, there wasn’t a lot on offer in New Zealand, so they began to experiment with zero sulphur wines in 2013. In 2014 they released their first wines in Martinborough. What began as a hobby soon became a business. In 2016 they moved to Nelson, where they bought an existing organic winery and vineyard.
