owhanakebaywines

17/09/2024

Looking to escape to a warm Italian cold weather haven?

and bring you fabulous food matched with fabulous wine.

16/08/2024

The pruning phase is complete.

When laying down the canes by winding them around the fruiting wire, you often hear a cracking sound. As long as the cane doesn't break, that's a good sound.

Cracking helps stimulate the vine into starting the sap circulating. This begins the shooting phase.

In these photos you can see a drop of sap forming at the end of the cane, and a bud swelling up.

Budburst is coming, and with it, the start of vintage 25!

03/08/2024

Stopped at on the way between Noosa and Brisbane. It's a coffee plantation and not much of a detour, but here's why you should visit:
1. Good coffee
2. Home made scones, jam and cream
3. Nice lunch food
4. Friendly people
5. You can buy the jam!
6. Spectacular view

11/05/2024

The Aurora Australis on Waiheke 7:30pm from the trig on Delamore Drive.

Just wow.

I'm excited like a little kid. The aurora has been on my list for decades and here it is.

07/05/2024

Perfect!!

Another day in paradise. Snapped by delivering their beautiful 2019 Syrah! 📸🍷🇮🇹❤️

24/04/2024

Autumn is such a beautiful season.

24/04/2024

One of the best things about owning a vineyard is testing out how past vintages are aging.

2015 verdict: smooth, elegant, full fruity taste sensation and a velvet soft finish.

20/04/2024

Nothing like flowers to brighten a rainy day

14/04/2024

The pegs are up, the nets are off with time for a quiet wine tasting next to the vines.

06/04/2024

The Once Upon an Island Trust is presenting the Kai for Community Waiheke Festival tomorrow Sunday 7 Aoril at the Museum of Waiheke.

So what exactly is the programme for the Kai for Community Waiheke Food Festival this Sunday 7th April? Well here it is:

10.00am
Opening
Karakia & procession of the seasons

10.30am
Eugene Behan-Kitto
Growing Kūmara on Waiheke
TALK TENT

Bottling – how to preserve your kai
Laura Sunderland & Dorothy Fitzgerald
DAY COTTAGE

Walking tour of Compost Co site and Te Motu food gardens
OFF SITE – MEET AT FRONT GATE

11.00am
Eddie Welsh of Stater Plants
Sowing and saving seed
TALK TENT

11.30am
Bianca Ransom
The story of Piritahi māra
DAY COTTAGE

11.30am
Hadas Ore
Food charter activation in our schools
TALK TENT

11.45
Tanya Batt and Peter Forster
Harvest story and song
STAGE

12.00
Winners of produce competitions announced
STAGE

12.30pm

Wendy Kendall
The story of Waiheke Herb spread
DAY COTTAGE

1.00pm
Waiheke home grown chilli sauce festival begins at Wild Estate

1.30pm

Jackie O Brien
The Gradiska story – the beginnings of Waiheke’s wine industry
DAY COTTAGE

All of this on top of food stalls, displays, the produce tables/competitions, face painting, smoothie bike, storytelling, the scarecrow competition and games for the children.
Be sure to come along and celebrate harvest Waiheke style 10 - 2pm at the Museum of Waiheke and 1- 3pm Waiheke homemade chilli sauce festival 1 - 3pm Wild Estate.

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30/11/2023

I believe I have repurposed all those old car CD players.... ideal car flower holder!

14/11/2023

Mike Taylor wasn’t always a fan of wine.

“Until age 32 I was tea total, mainly for athletic reasons. On a truck trip in Africa, after a very good day, my good friend and his wife poured three glasses of an aged port to celebrate.

I suppose that was the genesis of my philosophy that what we are creating in a bottle of wine is a little bottle of happiness!”

Unfamiliar with grape growing, Mike and Christy pressed on, under guidance of experts, learning from them, and gradually growing the expertise and confidence to do it themselves. Like true artisans really.

The key for Mike is producing quality grapes and collaborating with the winemaker always with the end wine in mind.

And Mike has not failed in delivering on happiness, having won numerous awards over the last 17 years, including his latest award winning Syrah ‘The One’.

Their philosophy: if it's worth doing, heart and soul go into it.

10/11/2023

It's a beautiful Saturday morning, and we're ready for you.

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The Harvest Shed
Middle driveway
Owhanake Bay Estate
68 Korora Road
Oneroa

06/11/2023

Fresh delivery of our delicious 2019 syrah to

Currently there are only two places in the world you can even taste let alone buy this vintage:
Our own cellar door.

That's it!!!!

05/11/2023

03/11/2023

Ding! It's go time!

Cellar door open.

Flower farm shop open

Free tastings and great cellar door prices

Posies, flower bar, walking tour.

The Harvest Shed
Owhanake Bay Estate
68 Korora Road
Oneroa

03/11/2023

We've arranged a sunny day for Saturday 4th November!!

The Harvest Shed will be open
9am to 1pm
with the farm shop and cellar door.

I've mown all the lawns, and some of the flowers are just beautiful, so the self guided tour is a good option.

We'll have beautiful flowers in bunches and a flower bar.

Free wine tasting of our delicious syrah and great cellar door prices.

See you here!

31/10/2023

Escape the tricks, enjoy this treat!
Boutique Waiheke wines.
Tonight, Halloween

Fort Street

28/10/2023

A wine lovers dream:

Christmas morning, unwrapping the customised wooden box. Sliding open the lid. Under the rose gold tissue paper is a tall elegant bottle of the best syrah in New Zealand. Two gold medal stickers and two champion medal stickers are shining alongside the shining rise gold words The ONE.
It's a treasure.
Then imagine the moment of opening, pouring, savouring the best wine of any variety in Auckland.





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24/10/2023

Here's something.... spooky.
Spooky tunes, and as far as I know, a never before gathered offering of boutique Waiheke Wine so delicious it's scarey!



Halloween, 31 October 23
From 5pm.







Get your tickets through

13/10/2023

Every winegrower and winemaker dreams at the start of each new season.
They dream of beautiful grapes to make wonderful wine.

After 17 years, we have something very special to share with you.

Stay tuned for your chance to participate!

See https://owhanake.co.nz/ for more details


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04/10/2023

We have a very exciting opportunity for wine (especially Syrah) lovers coming very soon.

Watch this space!


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28/10/2022

Vineyards don't grow as neatly as you see them.
Today's job was tucking and moving wires.
We do it so the vines grow straight up and are easier to manage. We can then get the tractor down the rows without breaking any vines.
But I do like the nice tidy effect.

Do come along to the 2019 Syrah launch:

2pm
Harvest Shed
Middle drive
68 Korora Road
Oneroa
Waiheke

16/08/2021

Bush walking at the weekend. Stopped to notice the moss. Easy to zip past, but it really is quite lovely. Like a mini masterpiece. I suppose all nature is like that - beaitiful and essential, but easy to ignore. The International panel on climate change report says we mustn't.