Vavasour put the
Awatere
on the map.
In 1986, the Awatere was a distant landscape dotted with sheep and considered too extreme for vines, so Vavasour had the pick of the valley.
Right from the start, intense layers of flavour declared a unique presence that demanded international attention.
Vavasour put the Awatere on the map as a sub-region to note.
The founding
of an
appellation.
Vavasour is the founding winery of Marlborough’s smaller, cooler Awatere Valley.
They once declared the Awatere too extreme for vines. but Vavasour took its chances; planting the first vines in 1986.
Today we are rewarded with the oldest vines and an intimate understanding of this unforgiving place.