Family-owned, organic winery Peregrine has been farming its Central Otago vineyards and producing wines that embody the region’s landscape and terroir for the last 25 years. Nestled among rugged mountains and pristine rivers, Peregrine produces a range of award winning, premium wines, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc.
Taking a ‘hands on’ approach to winemaking since 1998, the McLachlan family share a passion for the land and a vision about how they wanted to manage it. And so Peregrine began their organic journey in 2009, culminating in the Biogro organic certification for the entire Peregrine range in the 2017 vintage.

The result are wines made from exceptional organic fruit, and which tell the story faithfully of Central Otago’s unique climate and environment.

Peregrine's vineyards are primarily situated in the Gibbston Valley, Bendigo, and Pisa sub-regions, each contributing distinct qualities to their wines. The area’s high altitude vineyards, experiences extreme seasonal contrasts, with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters, which enhance the intensity and freshness of the wines. There’s also significant diurnal temperature variation, which helps maintain acidity while allowing grapes to ripen slowly, resulting in wines with vibrant fruit flavours and refined balance.

The soils play their part too – they are predominantly free-draining schist, gravel, and silt, which provide excellent conditions for vine stress, essential for producing concentrated flavours in grapes.

And of course, organic farming is fundamental to every aspect of Peregrine Vineyard Estates, with a holistic approach that integrates crop and livestock farming to vineyard management.