Wine Growing & Vineyard Supply | Hawke's Bay Winery

Crafting Quality Wines Through Generations of Expertise

With over a century of combined experience, our team blends science, tradition and skill to create expressive, balanced wines.

Winemaking with Over a Century of Expertise

With 116 years of combined experience, our team blends science and skill to craft wines that are balanced and true to their origins.

Wine Growing

Viticulture, the science and practice of growing grapevines, is both an art and a test of resilience. Over the 20-week long growing season, fragile buds undergo the transformation into ripe grapes, all while facing the challenges of frost, rain, wind, and attack from unwelcome pests. Harvest is always a momentous event.

Our vineyards stretch across Hawke’s Bay, taking advantage of diverse soils and microclimates that contribute to a wide palette of flavours.

Using sophisticated mechanical harvesters, we swiftly pick the grapes and truck them to the winery under optimum conditions, preserving the integrity and natural quality of the grapes.

Wine Making

Our talented winemaking team brings together many years of combined experience in a blend of science, skill and passion to craft wines of exceptional quality.

In a very efficient winery visitors are often surprised that such a small team can process so many grapes while keeping the cellar so tidy.
From harvest to fermentation, every step is about preserving and maximising potential.

Grapes spend around 150 days developing on the vine and once harvested, we use modern techniques to press and clarify juice with great care and speed. The fermenting juice is monitored twice daily, both scientifically and by taste, under the watchful eye of our winemakers.

After the fermentation is complete, the wines are handled gently, polished and fine-tuned so they present exactly as intended: balanced, expressive, and true to their origins.