The heart of Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay is not just a wine grown in New Zealand.
As a family company that became an international success, we have not lost our passion. Still entirely New Zealand owned, our company vision has always remained the same – to become one of the world’s truly great Super Premium winemakers.

Oyster Bay takes its name from the local Oyster Bay in Marlborough, on the tip of New Zealand’s majestic South Island. Oyster Bay's reputation has been built from vines grown in Marlborough's central Wairau Valley, now recognised as one of the great wine growing regions of the world.

Marlborough provides Oyster Bay with the perfect mix of sun and soil to produce wines of great character: distinctive, assertive, cool-climate wines that define the very essence – and exclusivity – of New Zealand viticulture.

If Marlborough was the birthplace of Oyster Bay then Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of the North Island, is its second home. Here on silty, alluvial plains Oyster Bay grows some of New Zealand's most elegant and exciting cool-climate wines.

Talk about a cool place for producing sparkling wines

Few wine-producing countries in the world have the potential to produce premium sparkling wine. With its temperate maritime-influenced climate, New Zealand’s long summers and cool autumn nights give birth to grapes of intense flavour and crisp natural acidity. Alluvial plains carved by ancient glaciers encourage the vine to concentrate its energies on ripening intensely flavoured grapes rather than growing canopy.

Sometimes fruit and flavour are the heroes, not the winemaking

Simply put, there is no other region on Earth that can replicate New Zealand’s hallmark aromatic, zesty wines. We are blessed with a coolness of climate, share of sun and suitability of soil that enables us to produce wines of unrivalled elegance, intensity and fruit purity.

When it comes to making a great sparkling wine, we are also blessed with enormous freedom and opportunities, unbound by the confines of traditional winemaking processes. At Oyster Bay we prefer to use minimal winemaking intervention to fully capture and showcase the pure, intense fruit flavours of New Zealand’s unique cool-climate viticulture.