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Montana is the maker of Brancott wines, and it's a quintessential Kiwi story, how a young immigrant named Ivan Yukich made wine to sell to American soldiers in World War Two. He used the name “Montana” (meaning mountainous), as his vineyard lay on a slope of the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland. In the 1960s, his sons adopted the name for the family winery. The turning point came in the early 1970s. Within a few years, the company planted new vineyards in Gisborne, made New Zealand’s first pure varietal wine, started the very first commercial vineyards in Marlborough and made the original Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc! This was the single biggest factor that put New Zealand on the world wine map. It shouldn’t have been such a surprise if you consider that New Zealand lies within one of the two global wine belts. The cool, sunny climate, rugged topography and geologically young soils combine to produce some of the world’s most distinctive wines Brancott’s classic range of wines is still considered the benchmark of New Zealand varietal winemaking. The wines are crafted with minimum intervention to be the purest expression of the unique flavour characteristics that key grape varieties achieve in New Zealand. Classics Range
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