Te Mata Estate

Te Mata Estate is an independent, family-owned Hawke's Bay winery and New Zealand's oldest, in continuous operation since 1895. The winery produces everything on-premises at their Havelock Hills site, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Napier. Established in the late 19th century by the Chambers family, the winery was the first to be heritage-protected. Te Mata's flagship Coleraine wine is regarded by many as New Zealand’s finest red wine, and is named after the Buck family's ancestral hometown in Northern Ireland. The main cellar was built in the 1870s from local hand-fired brick with a mataī and rimu roofing, and extended to add a first-year barrel hall in the 1930s. Since 2001, only half of the fruit on these vineyards is made under the Te Mata label. While Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir have been planted in Te Mata vineyards since 1892, Viognier and Gamay Noir were introduced in 1994.