Vineyards
New Zealand is a small country in the South Pacific, well known for its idyllic beaches, mountainous alpine regions, wide open spaces and native flora and fauna.
A country where in the last 50 years our traditional agriculture has moved well beyond the boundaries of sheep, beef, dairying and cropping farms. Today our land is home to a wide range of horticulture and viticulture, with wine- making fast becoming an integral part of our country’s identity.
Over the last 50 years New Zealand’s wine industry has developed from small family owned vineyards to an industry that now produces some of the world’s finest wines lead by Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir.
The Nobilo Wine Group enjoys ownership
and partnership of many diverse sites within the key wine growing regions
of New Zealand.
Nobilo Vineyards in New Zealand
Gisborne
Gisborne is located on the east coast of the North
Island. It has hot dry summers and mild winters. This region produces
a wide variety of white wines with the emphasis on Chardonnay and early
ripening Muscat varietals.
Hawkes Bay, located approximately 200 kms south of Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island, enjoys hot dry summers and is an ideal location for Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.
"Hawkes Bay has been known
for quite some time as being the best area to grow red wine in NZ, and
red wine has been planted in that area since the late 1800’s and
have been shown to be very rich, full bodied with good fruit characters,
we’ve followed that trend over the last 10-15 years."
Darryl Woolley
Marlborough
Marlborough, New Zealand’s largest grape-growing
region located at the top of the South Island produces Chardonnay, Riesling,
Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and in particular -
Sauvignon Blanc.
"Marlborough is one of
the most fantastic areas in the world for growing wine, its one of the
top areas in my opinion for white wine. The climate is principally dry,
it tends to be mediterrean in most aspects with winter rainfall and dry
summers, springs and autumn. Marlborough's sauvignon blanc is acknowledged
widely as being the most expressive of it’s type in the world."
Darryl Woolley
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At Huapai in Auckland a new bottling hall commissioned in 2001 has an ultra modern Italian line capable of highly efficient processing of over 50,000 bottles per day. The Huapai production site is also home to Nobilo’s administration offices housing sales, marketing, export and finance departments in both a modern purpose built office block and an historic character villa.
