okahu estate vineyard and winery
Wine in Far North
www.okahuestate.co.nz
Address
. Kaitaia.. Far North, Northland.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about okahu estate vineyard and winery
The northern influence and mild climate provides for an extended season, allowing variatals to grow here that may not do so well further south. It is common throughout Northland in areas where Kauri forests once grew and Monty Knight has dubbed it Kauri Sands’. Vineyard Manager, Joe Lewer has been a fisherman, a house painter, and a works gang foreman, but his work at Okahu Estate is his most enduring. Joe started in 1992 and has mastered the full gambit of pruning, training, spraying and harvesting grapes.
Monty Knight leads a team of dedicated people passionate about wine making in the far north of New Zealand. It sums up the climate, microclimate, soil, topography, location, elevation, the winery, its people and wine making techniques and its distinctive taste and feel. Okahu Estate’s Cellar Door offers free tastings of their award winning wines. 08 S with the winery's frontage off Okahu Road.
Okahu Estate’s Cellar Door offers free tastings of their award winning wines. There are cellar door prices and a selection of their rare and hard to find wines. When Monty Knight first planted vines at Okahu Estate in the Far North of New Zealand in 1984, many people were very sceptical about producing fine wine from the area. These detractors had to eat their words in 1996, when Okahu’s Kaz Shiraz 1994 won Gold and the trophy for other reds at the 1996 Auckland Royal Easter Show.
Since then, the winery has gone on to become Northland’s most awarded winery, winning more gold, top of its class and countless silver and bronze awards, not only for wines from their own Estate vineyards, but also contract grown fruit from Hawkes Bay, Gisborne, Te Kauwhata and other Northland vineyards. Monty, a high profile Kaitaia retailer and entrepreneur, has diverse interests in the business world and a record of public service for Northland. He is the pioneer of the renaissance of wine making in Northland, following on from the legacy established by Croatian settlers in the early 1900’s. A colourful, controversial and entertaining public speaker, Monty travels New Zealand and the world with his wine and wine making stories
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