The winemaking and vineyard team at Xabregas work side by side. However, it is the belief of winemaker Martin Cooper, that the alchemy of winemaking takes a back seat to the grape quality coming from the three vineyards of the Xabregas estate. “It has become a cliché but all great wines come not from a great winemaker, but a great vineyard. The grape quality of our vineyards speak for themselves and it is why we do not source grapes from other peoples vineyards, we simply don’t need too.”

“You cannot make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear”
~Martin Cooper

Enter Vineyard Manager, Ross Pike. His background in contract grape growing has equipped him to tend the vineyard in a clean green sustainable manner and at the same time, focus on producing fruit to specification. "We grow wine, not grapes. It sounds strange but when you walk into this vineyard, it is all about how the grapes taste not about how the vines look."