Following on from a successful year, Craggy Range Winery can now add another accolade to its growing list of achievements.
One of New Zealand's leading wine writers, Bob Campbell MW (Master of Wine), has awarded Craggy Range his annual Golden Grapes Award for 2017, noting that the award "recognises contribution to the New Zealand wine industry and to the people of New Zealand".
Craggy Range Winery chief executive Michael Wilding said it is "truly an honour and very humbling" to receive such an award from Bob Campbell MW.
"We have a very clear ambition to sit alongside the great wineries of the world, so to receive an award like this gives us a tremendous amount of confidence that we are on the right track. Bob Campbell MW is incredibly respected both here and Internationally, so for him to recognise is both humbling but also encourages us to go keep pushing harder, both on the wine and hospitality sides of the business".
Earlier in the year, the winery received 97 points for its 2015 Sophia and 98 points for the 2015 Aroha and Le Sol wines, tasted by Mr Campbell.