Live From the Vines: Rippon Vineyard & Winery
Hosted by Nick Mills & Jo Mills
Rippon’s home of Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island would deserve to sit on any rollcall listing wine’s most dramatic landscapes.
This pocket of Central Otago has been under the stewardship of the Mills family since 1912, although it wasn’t until the mid-1970s that thoughts turned – albeit tentatively – to growing vines, when Rolf Mills laid down a few experimental rows.
Join and taste alongside winemaker Nick Mills and his wife Jo (Rippon’s director), as they illustrate Rippon’s evolution from its speculative beginnings to the prime, unirrigated, biodynamic estate it is today.
Hear how their predecessors had the freedom to plant with wild abandon, meaning anything and everything went into the ground, before successive generations sorted the wheat from the chaff and settled on the six varieties they grow today.
Rippon Sauvignon Blanc 2019
Rippon “Rippon” Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2016
Rippon “Emma’s Block” Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2017
Rippon “Tinker’s Field” Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2017
Rippon “Rippon” Mature Vine Riesling 2019
Rippon Gewurztraminer 2019