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Werner Muller, winemaker at Elgin’s Iona since May 2011, will depart in May 2026 after completing the harvest. Muller says: "While I have no specifics...
Badbay. Now there’s a name to conjure with. Named after Badbea (“Badbay”), a Scottish clearance village where the Gunn clan sought refuge in the late...
Werner Muller of Elgin property Iona says that 2023 was a wet vintage necessitating a “proactive approach” in the vineyard. Cool temperatures and unusually high...
Former engineer Andrew Gunn bought a dilapidated Elgin apple farm in 1997 which he converted to vineyard and Iona as the property was name is...
Grapes for the Solace Syrah come from the organically farmed Brocha property, lower down in the Elgin Valley from the main Iona plantings and cellar....
This single vineyard with clay-rich, north-facing soils on Elgin property Iona is meant to make for wines of more depth and weight and I must...
What a triumph Solace Syrah is proving to be. Grapes are from north-facing and hence relatively warm vineyards on an Elgin property called Brocha as...
It’s only rock ‘n roll but we like. The standard label Sauvignon Blanc from Elgin property Iona, not to mention the subordinate but super-successful Sophie...
Previously an engineer, Andrew Gunn acquired the run-down Elgin apple farm that was to become Iona in 1997 and the first vintage of Sauvignon Blanc...
Elgin tends to claim Pinot Noir as its signature red grape variety but the Syrah under the Solace label from the Iona team is smart,...
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