Original Awatere:
a valley and
style apart
Vavasour is the founding winery of Marlborough’s smaller, cooler Awatere Valley. An intimate knowledge of this dramatic southern pocket of Marlborough rewards us with wines of extraordinary elegance, perfume and texture.
The founding of an appellation.
A distant landscape originally thought too extreme for vines; our risk was rewarded. Vavasour put Awatere on the map as a sub-region to note.
The Awatere Valley
Stonier, drier, cooler & windier than the main Wairau Valley. The Awatere Valley’s terroir conspires to product distinctive, complex, intriguing wines.
We have history here.
The people who hand-make Vavasour wines know the Awatere intimately.
We started this sub-appellation and we haven’t finished yet.
Our winemaking captures the extremes and nuances of the Awatere. It’s detail, precision and a good amount of curiosity that makes our winemaking a constant evolution.