by Ann Williamson | Sep 9, 2024 | Festivals, Markets, Matakana vineyards, Wine events
Meet the Matakana Winegrowers at Warkworth’s annual festival to celebrate spring! The Kowhai Festival – all day Saturday 19th October 2024 join the party on Wharf Street. Live music, food trucks and fresh oysters from the Mahurangi along with our...
by Ann Williamson | Jan 5, 2023 | Markets, Matakana vineyards, Wine events
Celebrate summer with the Matakana Winegrowers at the Matakana Village Farmers Market! Enjoy Matakana wine by the glass with delicious food to accompany the wine. Bottle sales at special cellar door prices. Taste our boutique wines, meet our winemakers, enjoy unique...
by Ann Williamson | Mar 3, 2022 | Matakana vineyards
A small organic vineyard in Matakana with a special connection to the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei. Alistair and Karen Noakes left Matamata and share milking behind in 1995 with a move to a 32-acre block of vines in the Hawkes Bay. Encouraged by their...
by Ann Williamson | Dec 7, 2021 | Matakana vineyards
Spring is a special time on the Matakana Coast, locals just as much as visitors love driving or cycling past the vineyards watching the leaf buds grow, burst and stretch along the rows. Spring at Sculptureum began early this year after a warmer than usual...
by Ann Williamson | Oct 18, 2021 | Matakana vineyards
As a teenager in South Auckland, Karl Nola began to grow grapes on the 40-acre family vineyard and for the next 15 years tended the vines and sold grapes to wineries. Karl’s Dalmatian heritage, with generations of hardworking vintners and horticulturalists, instilled...
by Ann Williamson | Jun 16, 2021 | Markets, Matakana vineyards, Wine events
Meet Matakana’s beverage boss crafting natural wines and organic cider on Duck Creek Road. The site was once home to the biggest apple orchard in the Southern Hemisphere. Justin Oliver represents what the Matakana region is so well equipped to produce; a...
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