Welcome to Awatere River

Thank you for visiting our website; the fact you are reading this tells me you appreciate good wine and have an interest in how it is made.

My name is Louis Vavasour, and my family have been growing and making wine in Marlborough's Awatere Valley since the late 1980s.

I'm proud to introduce the Awatere River range, a collection of premium quality wine from our small appellation in this world-famous wine growing region.

Awatere River wines have been made using low yield, high quality techniques to create a worthy partner for fine food, so it's very pleasing to find them featured on wine lists of top-end restaurants in Manhattan, Auckland, Amsterdam, London, Liverpool, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand.

I hope you enjoy learning more about our wines and I offer you a toast to begin the journey:

To all that is good in life