With over 6,000 grape growers across Australia, Ricca Terra's Rudi vineyard has made it in the Top 41 vineyards that best showcase the Vineyard of the Year Awards’ values of sustainability, innovation, provenance, and quality.

Ashley says, "While most of the Riverland sits on light, sandy soils, the Rudi Vineyard is dug into terra rossa – red earth over limestone – in a channel east of Barmera known as the ‘Golden Triangle’."

"With olives now planted among the rows and vegetable crops planned, Rudi Vineyard is embracing a return to mixed horticulture. 'We want our farms to resemble the bygone era of mixed horticulture farming, which we believe is more sustainable, marketable and exciting,' Ratcliff says. This diversified horticultural model is mirrored by a diversification of destinations for the vineyard’s grapes – rather than using all of the fruit for his own Ricca Terra label, Ratcliff shares the bounty with producers like Kangarilla Road, Witches Falls, Little Victories and Other Wine Co."

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