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Three Miners Vineyard is a family-owned 15.5 ha estate located on the banks of the Clutha River in Alexandra, Central Otago. Kirstin and Paul Wright own the vineyard and have 12.5 hectares of Pinot Noir vines that were planted in 2000. The white wine vines—Pinot Gris (2 ha), Riesling (0.5 ha), and Gewurztraminer (0.5 ha) were planted in 2008. The soil is a Molyneaux gravel, and the climate is cold with hot days and cool nights.

The vineyard is named after 3 men - Thomas Oliver, Joseph Knowles and James Simmonds who came to Central Otago for the 1860s gold rush. The Earnscleugh Grand Junction Mining Company was formed and the land between the vineyard and the Clutha River was mined. As water was vital to the recovery of gold from the gravel, the men invested in water. They cut water races from the Fraser River at the back of the Earnscleugh Valley and channeled that water down into the claims of other miners.