VALE MARGARET CRITTENDEN

1942 -2020 Among his many accolades, Garry Crittenden was inducted as a ‘Legend’ by the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2003. Since then, he has never wavered from the opinion that his wife Margaret would have been a worthier recipient.

“She was way ahead of me in terms of her vision and her ideas. She got an idea and went ahead and did it,” says Garry. Case in point, in 1988, armed with a notepad, pen and cash tin, Margaret set up a trestle table in Crittenden’s winery building, creating the peninsula’s first ‘cellar door’. She spearheaded various projects since, including the region’s first cellar door restaurant and the property’s Lakeside Villas.

Margaret died in November 2020 after a long illness.