1. Winery Experience 2010 Cracroft Chase Vineyard and Winery, Christchurch Martin Gardner

2. Cracroft Chase Winery 5 ha pinot gris planted 1998 by Alex and Wilma Laryn, Italian expatriates Purpose built winery on site All operations done on site from harvesting to bottling Small laboratory Aim to produce a complex food friendly wine

3. Annual crush 30-40t Wine volume 15000-20000L Juice treated in different ways- free run, pressings, macerated on skins, tank fermented, barrel fermented and MLF Attention to detail at all levels Blended together prior to bottling

4. The Winery

5. Equipment Della Toffola crusher/destemmerand must pump Della Toffola 3t airbag press Variety of variable capacity tanks Several mono pumps and a centrifugal pump 12 old oak barrels Pad and plate filter Gravity fed bottling line with membrane filter inline and capped by hand

6. My Laboratory Can do Brix, TA, free and total SO2, pH and enzymatic malic acid Also can do protein and cold stability trials

7. Crusher/destemmer with basket press in the background

8. On the front end loader at vintage disposing of marc

9. The owners- with lunch! The owners- with lunch!

10. Unloading the bin where grapes have been macerating into the basket press

11. Me sampling barrels