Alan McCorkindale

Alan McCorkindale Ltd.
PO Box 29 338 Christchurch
Tel: 0800 423 532  Fax: (03) 351 4925
Email: wine@alanmccorkindale.com

The vineyard is not open for cellar door sales. Wines are available by mail order only
Internationally renowned wine maker Alan McCorkindale with twenty-two years of wine making experience, produces wines from New Zealand’s Waipara Valley and Marlborough wine regions.

Respect for the environment and a minimalist grape growing and wind making philosophy, have created style and innovation in these wines, fresh and clean, a bold statement that is New Zealand – Aotearoa.

Attention to the tiniest details is the key to the quality of his wines, harvested at a maximum flavour intensity, gently pressed and fermented using a blend of modern technology and traditional methods to produce wines of quality and style. Alan McCorkindale specialies in methode traditionelle sparkling wine. Painstaking adherence to traditional Champagne methods, such as hand-harvesting whole bunch pressing, barrel fermentation and four years lees ageing coupled with innovation and style have produced a classic New Zealand methode traditionelle.