Terra Sancta

Terra Sancta is a Central Otago estate on Felton Road in Bannockburn, built around some of the first vines ever planted in Bannockburn and the wider Cromwell Basin. Established under its current ownership in 2011 by Mark Weldon and Sarah Eliott, it encompasses four vineyards along the glacial Kawarau River, with schist- and limestone-rich soils, abundant sunshine and a relatively frost-free mesoclimate. Certified organic and farmed regeneratively, the property is run as a mixed farm with sheep, hens and goats integ…