About Us | Winemaker
Matt Large – Winemaker
New Zealand’s biggest wine growing region, Marlborough, is also our most important wine growing area. Its importance and global prominence is due to Marlborough‘s remarkable ability to consistently grow wine brilliance.
Kim Crawford Wines winemaker Matt Large is a proof in point, a fine example of homegrown Marlborough wine quality.
Born and bred in Blenheim, Matt joined the Kim Crawford Wines team in 2004 and now has hands on responsibility for all aspects of winemaking at the winery in Riverlands, Blenheim.
He has intimate involvement from vine to winery in every aspect of winemaking, including being the first to try out every new winery toy (expensive winemaking machinery) and the right to drive the forklift when and where he wishes.
He has picked grapes at dawn, dusk and midnight. He has over-seen, ferments, blends and barrel racking. Matt is an avid and enthusiastic taster of his, and others’ handiwork.
Having developed a taste for wine at home, Matt obtained a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University in Wellington and went on to travel and experiment with wines around the world – Europe, USA, South Africa and Australia.
His greatest loves in life are his wife Adele and two small children, and for time out he enjoys nothing more than fishing and diving in the Marlborough Sounds.
His favourite wine is the one in his glass, closely followed by the one about to be opened.
