About Awhitu

Only an hour from Auckland - on the beautiful Awhitu Peninsula - lies
a unique vineyard producing the finest handcrafted wines...

Awhitu Wines presents... Awhitu Greenock Syrah - a stunning, full bodied
wine with aromas of dark berry fruits, leather and peppery spice...

Awhitu Peninsula Chardonnay - a fine, elegant wine
with a nose of stone fruit with citrus hints...

Come visit us at the vineyard and taste our meticulously crafted wines,
or order right here on our website...

For superior, handcrafted wines of distinction ... try Awhitu Wines ...
and experience ...A longing to Return...

The Awhitu Peninsula encloses the Manukau Harbour. It is rugged, beautiful, and just over an hour from central Auckland.
There are still remnants of the once thick puriri and kauri forest in the steeper valleys. A wide variety of agricultural and horticultural activities are visible on the Peninsula as are a number of charming harbour beach settlements which are in direct contrast to the wild west coast and its 200m high sand cliffs. In the Franklin County several towns were surveyed in the late 1800’s but never built.
Greenock was one of these out on the Awhitu Peninsula.
 

In those pre-road days every little bay had a wharf and the settlers sailed for supplies to Onehunga which at that time was the main port for trans-tasman trade.
 

Awhitu Wines is found in Greenock Drive at Grahams Beach.
 

The crop volume is suppressed by rigorous bud removal followed by bunch thinning after veraison has begun (sugars rising in the berries and colour change).

Meticulous canopy management is a key contributor to gaining superior quality fruit. All fruit is hand picked into baskets prior to pressing which takes place within 4-6 hours of harvest. Ferment is temperature controlled. The wines are lightly filtered.