Rippon
Biodynamic lakeside vineyard on schist slopes, pioneering cool-climate Pinot Noir since the seventies.
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This guide to Rippon, the lakeside vineyard near Wanaka outside Queenstown, follows Rolfe and Lois Mills in the mid nineteen-seventies, when they set out to test a hunch on a hillside of sheep country. It reaches back to a wartime submarine officer passing through Portugal, and to the grandfather who bought this station in nineteen twelve. Best heard standing among the rows, looking down toward Lake Wanaka.
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