Explore the wineries
Sample Marlborough's world-class wines from local wineries and be captivated by Marlborough’s best day out in the heart of our wine country.
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Allan Scott Family Winemakers
Just like the vines themselves, the family's story is entwined in the very roots of Marlborough winemaking. Allan Scott planted some of the region's first vineyards in the 1970s and has been a part of every vintage grown here since.
The next generation of Scott’s have passionately taken up the reigns, injecting their love for winemaking and fresh approach to the label, extending geographical boundaries, while honouring the provenance and heritage of what their parents have created, with an unwavering commitment to crafting the world's finest wines.
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Ant Moore Wines
There is a free fun spirit that runs through every Ant Moore wine, a force that pushes aside boundaries to produce outstanding, adventurous wines from our pristine Marlborough vineyards.
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Ara Wines
Ara Wines are crafted on the edge of the earth; the essence of Pure Marlborough.
Ara (pronounced are-ah) captures the journey of working in harmony with our environment to make pure cool-climate wines which reflect Marlborough’s story. We invite you to drink in the best of this remarkable place with every sip. We capture and amplify the best of Marlborough in every glass.
Enjoy a selection of our Ara Single Estate and Ara Zero wines.
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Babich Wines
For over 100 years, Babich Wines have strived to sustainably produce the best wines from New Zealand, to share with the world. We apply a philosophy of care and craft to every wine we make – from grape to glass – in concert with the stunning soil, climate and terrain of our New Zealand wine regions. It’s that combination that makes our New Zealand wines so unique.
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Blank Canvas Wines Ltd
Blank Canvas, based in Marlborough is the vinous studio of husband-and-wife team: Matt Thomson MSc, an award-winning international winemaking consultant and Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson.
With over 45 years of collective experience in the global wine industry, Blank Canvas is the result of vast winemaking experience and the joint desire to create distinctive, fine wines that represent the very best of New Zealand.
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Borough
Borough wines are all about collaboration, community, and giving back. When you buy these tasty drops, you are donating directly to Borough's nominated charity partner, the Graeme Dingle Foundation, and supporting child and youth development.
You are also joining a community of like-minded generous individuals: grape growers, winemakers, packaging suppliers, bottlers, carriers, and customers, who all make these contributions possible.
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Catalina Sounds
Named after the majestic Catalina flying boats and the iconic Marlborough Sounds at our doorstep, Catalina Sounds produces wines that are true to the region and our vineyard sites while building an extra textural dimension –wines that are uniquely Catalina Sounds.
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Clos Henri Vineyard
Nestled in the foothills of the Wairau Valley, carved by powerful glacial and tectonic forces, the Clos Henri Estate sits upon some of the Marlborough’s most fascinating soils. Headed by members of the famous winegrowing family of Henri Bourgeois, from Sancerre, France, the Estate has been meticulously cared for since its establishment in 2000.
Drawing on over 200 years of winegrowing expertise from the family, we craft organic wines that are textural and elegant; and which pay homage to the unique soil types we are lucky enough to nurture.
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Cloudy Bay
The Cloudy Bay story began in 1985 with the first vintage of its distinctive, captivating and vibrant Sauvignon Blanc. The estate continues its drive for excellence in the Marlborough region. Founded with an adventurous spirit and unwavering commitment to quality, Cloudy Bay pursues perfection with every bottle, capturing and revealing the natural beauty of each region with every sip.
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Eradus Wines
In a valley forged by fault lines, carved by winds, drenched by sun and cooled by the Pacific Ocean, our wines are the Essence of the Awatere Valley.
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Esses Estate
Esses Estate is a premium grower-producer creating sophisticated, late-disgorged sparkling through traditional French methods. Each vintage showcases the essence of the season and the estate on which it is grown. Esses is a family owned and operated estate, with 20-year-old vines, with current releases being produced off a mere 1.5 hectares. Esses have received significant accolades from wine critics and are capturing the attention respected connoisseurs across the country. Esses are showcasing six Methodé Traditionnelle’s ranging from 48 months on lees to over 8 years on lees.
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Eva Pemper Wines
Eva Pemper Wines is a premium wine producer in the heart of Marlborough, New Zealand. Winemaker and Founder Eva Pemper is a Croatian with a family history of making wine in Croatia. She is here in New Zealand to continue her family legacy and tell her story through her wines.
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Forrest
The Forrest family is all about good times and quality wine, combining creativity, passion and scientific skill, which becomes crystal clear when you try our wine!
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Four Hawk Day
“A Four Hawk Day is the best day possible.” This is a family saying dating back to when our kids were little and fascinated with hawks.
We have been growing grapes in the Waihopai Valley for 30 years and have had our own wine for 12 years. The fruit is low cropped and the environment provides a high diurnal temperature range, meaning intense, ripe flavours. Well balanced fruit and acidity.
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Framingham Wines
With some of the oldest Riesling vines in Marlborough, we planted our first Wairau Valley vines back in 1981. We’re big believers in doing what you love and when it comes to making wine, we make wine that we ourselves want to drink. By combining small batches of fruit from different parts of the vineyard, we build depth of flavor and texture, by using experimental techniques and blending options. The result? Rich, expressive wines. Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir all grow on our Estate. Small batches mean limited quantities. When Framingham wines are gone, they’re gone.
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Giesen Wines
"Great wines are the ones we remember sharing with family and friends” - that’s why we created Giesen Estate. Our Estate wines showcase distinctive regional varieties which are generous, smooth, relaxing and most of all, taste great! When the Giesen brothers first planted vines in 1981, they never imagined they’d create a multi-award-winning winery known internationally for innovation and ingenuity. Built on family, the brothers paired their German heritage with a Kiwi can-do attitude and some good old-fashioned hard work to craft beautiful wines to enjoy with friends and family. Four decades on, they invite you to share in that same legacy of passion and craft. Whatever your occasion, there’s a great Giesen wine to match.
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Hunter's Wines
40 years in the making Hunter’s is the dream of Ernie and Jane Hunter - a fiercely independent, family-owned winery established in Marlborough. From their very first vintage in 1982 Hunter’s wines won six medals at the National Wine Show. Our story is the story of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Hunter’s Wines are recognized as one of the pioneers of the Marlborough wine industry and one of New Zealand’s best-known family-owned wineries. The first vineyard was planted in 1979 and first export award in 1986 in London.
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Lawson's Dry Hills
If sustainability is important to you, look no further! Our award-winning wines are certified 100% sustainable and we're a carbon zero certified winery. We are a relaxed bunch but we take making wine seriously, doing everything ourselves, from growing the grapes to making and bottling our wines on site. Each one we make is an authentic representation of the grape variety and the land from which they are grown.
Proud of our people, honouring our land, preserving our planet
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Mount Riley Wines
Mount Riley is a family-owned and operated Marlborough winemaker.
We pride ourselves on producing wines of exceptional quality and value.
This is made possible through our earth-to- glass philosophy and the strength and talent of our people.
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Mud House
Mud House wines are created and crafted by adventurers themselves for those seeking adventure in their everyday.
The wines we'll pour at the wine festival express the exceptional vineyards of the South Island and represent the Mud House style - everyday wines to enjoy at any occasion. Crisp whites, rich aromatic reds with depth and purity.
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Nautilus Estate
Our aim is to craft wines that are textural, complex and food friendly, respecting and showcasing the unique Marlborough terroir. Come to visit us and taste our delicious wines!
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Rimapere
Rimapere's single 24ha estate is ideally located on the prestigious Rapaura Road in the Wairau Valley, in the heart of Marlborough on exceptional terroir. The areas cool climate is perfect for ripening high quality Sauvignon Blanc grapes and provides them with the renowned lemon and grapefruit flavours, together with a distinct, crisp acidity.
Rimapere produces a classic Sauvignon Blanc, an alternative style of Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir.
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Riverby Estate
A boutique wine producer growing all of our own grapes on our family owned vineyard in Jacksons Road, Rapaura.
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Rock Ferry Wines
Founded in 2005, Rock Ferry Wines is a boutique family-owned organic wine estate specialising in single vineyard wines. Owning three vineyards across the Wairau Valley, from the Omaka Valley to Rapaura, we have the ideal winegrowing sites that are well suited to the extensive range of wine styes we produce.
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Spy Valley Wines
Seek Spy, Find Why.
At Spy Valley, we are on a mission to inspire the world of wine with secrets worth sharing.
Award winning, sustainably crafted wines that capture the unique time and place of every harvest. A family-owned estate, hidden in the Southern Valley's of Marlborough New Zealand, one of the world’s purest wine regions. Come and experience tastings of our wines, see award winning architecture and learn the secrets behind the name, Spy Valley.
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The Ned and Leefield Station
The Ned. Right in the heart of the magical Waihopai Valley, a million miles from anywhere, lies The Ned - one of Marlborough's most famous peaks - and the childhood playground for founder and wine maker, Brent Marris. It's a place where nights are two degrees colder and days two degrees hotter. Where possibilities take hold and good times unfold, where the young at heart thrive.
Leefield Station has a mission of showcasing the best of Marlborough in one amazing property. Delicious grapes, well-kept sheep, cattle, and pigs – all alongside flourishing native bush sheltering productive beehives and teeming flora and fauna.
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Tohu Wines feat. Martin Bosley's Oyster Saloon
Tohu Wines, the world's first Māori-owned wine company, has crafted internationally acclaimed wines since 1998. As an indigenous owned winery, our wines are inspired by the values we hold close to us. Made for sharing, our dedication to producing outstanding wine is deeply engrained in our duty to care for the land. Each range, crafted with aroha (love), is a cherished gift from our land, made for sharing.
Join us with one of NZ's most loved chefs, Martin Bosley, as he brings the best, freshest oysters to Marlborough. Freshly shucked by the man himself, or crunchy beer battered and served with his homemade tartare sauce
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Toi Toi Wines
The majestic Toi Toi is a native flowering grass and an iconic part of New Zealand’s landscape from the mountains to the ocean. Resilient and adaptable, it is able to grow in many climates and expresses itself distinctively in each; much like a grape vine.
This continues to inspire us, and our wines. Curiosity takes us across our country. Our love for the land means that we understand what it creates now and will ensure it will do so for future generations. We know what grows best here and are focused on creating exceptional wines from the regions where they exhibit their best.
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Tupari Wines
Tūpari is a small, artisan wine company from the Awatere Valley sub-region of Marlborough. Tūpari (pronouced Too-pa-ree) takes its name from the dramatic cliffs in the vineyard where the Turnbull family and pioneering winemaker Glenn Thomas have collaborated to create wines of distinction. Tūpari produce elegant, handcrafted wines that have earned their place on the top wine lists in Australia and New Zealand.
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Two Rivers
Our mission is to harness Marlborough’s intense fruit flavours, while producing elegant wines with purity and a sense of place. Our grapes are grown on the clay soils of our high density planted, Brookby Hill Vineyard in the Southern Valleys sub region of Marlborough – Together with several key sites across Marlborough’s two main valleys. After embarking on BioGro NZ organic conversion in 2020, no synthetic chemical fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides are used at Brookby Hill Vineyard.
Winemaking techniques include natural fermentation, aging in concrete egg tanks, large oak cuves, an assortment of French oak barrels and clay amphoras, as well as bottling wine unfined and unfiltered to retain complexity and texture.
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Villa Maria
Founded in 1961 from humble beginnings, Villa Maria is a story of pioneering spirit and a desire to champion the best of
New Zealand wine.
Our portfolio of highly awarded wines is the most stylistically and regionally diverse in New Zealand, setting us apart and consistently delivering a rewarding wine experience.
As the leading winemakers in Marlborough with an
unwavering focus on quality and sustainability, Villa Maria wines are distinctive, vibrant, and most importantly, delicious.
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Wairau River Wine
Phil and Chris Rose were originally growing lucerne for export to Japan. Then the 1970’s oil shock hit which made the harvesting and drying of lucerne uneconomic. The Roses looked to find an alternative use for their land.
They decided to plant grapes. After battling some major objections around land use, Phil and Chris finally gained consent and started establishing their vineyards in 1978.
In true pioneering spirit, they began hand planting vines and raising a family. After contract growing grapes for some years, they decided to produce their own wine in 1991 and the Wairau River label was born.
Today Wairau River is one of New Zealand's most highly regarded wine producers, exporting to customers all over the world.
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Wither Hills Restaurant and Cellar Door / Daniel Le Brun
Since our beginnings in 1994, Wither Hills has been home to a small team of committed winemakers who painstakingly labour over every wine from one vintage to the next. Having 3 decades of experience means we know the Marlborough area like an old friend, with its quirks and interesting habits, and we believe the best wines capture that character - a reflection of their source. For us, that includes the effect of our namesake Wither Hills ranges that border and protect our patch of earth, influencing our unique fusion of land, grapes, climate and the village of people who bring it all together. Add passion to the mix and you’ve got expressive wines New Zealanders know and trust to represent quality without pretence.
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Yealands Wines
Yealands wines are inspired by the coast that surrounds us - so close to the ocean that our vines are often misted with sea spray. The beauty of our environment influences how we craft wine, respectful of nature and our land. Yealands are proud leaders in sustainable winemaking, bringing you beautifully crafted wines.
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Alchemist Mixology
Alchemist Mixology is a portable cocktail bar serving premium wine based cocktails! Frozen Rosè, Lemon Meringue Spritz with a meringue garnish, Passionfruit Sangria & Riesling & Rosehip Spritz with candyfloss!
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Marlborough wine is the perfect fusion of people, place, passion, and perseverance.
As the region that first put New Zealand wine on the world map, we continue to define the pulse of wine in Aotearoa. We are fearless and forward-looking. We have earned our place in people’s hearts, and will continue to do so for generations to come.
Marlborough wine is where complexity and clarity collide, where boundaries are pushed, and senses come alight. Where commitment to mastery is alive and artisanal practice is perfected over and again. We challenge the world to keep pace and meet us in our vision for Marlborough’s – and New Zealand’s – wine.
We love our Sauvignon Blanc and so does the world. Its premium purity and flavour intensity has rightly earned its place on the world stage – the respect and care of our producers have kept it there. But we are more than this. We are passionate innovators who seek to challenge ourselves and the expectations of what wine should be. We are not bound by tradition, yet the roots of our pioneers and the ones that came before us ground us, and we strive to honour the past whilst looking to the future.
Lit by kei Puta Te Wairau, we are cradled by protective mountain ranges and the fresh coastal breezes of the Pacific Ocean. We respect our duty to guard our place, just as our place guards us.
Our people are the beating heart of our wine – the wine that defines New Zealand. From the Southern Valleys through to Wairau Valley and onto the Awatere Valley and Southern Marlborough, our diversity is epitomised by the many craftspeople who capture wines that are impossible to imitate, hard not to love and filled with passion and provenance.
Marlborough Wine is wine you know and love that continues to refresh and excite you. The sense of place in each bottle is palpable, full surprise and delight. A Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is a sophisticated wine that cannot be replicated. Its premium purity and flavour intensity has rightly earned its place on the world stage – the respect and care of our producers have kept it there. It is the anchor from which we curl exploratory tendrils of other varieties – Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling – and show our range. It is the wine we can always lean on.
We are free and thankful for our young land - it allows us to evolve and diversify without losing the true reflection of place expressed by our wines.