Oyster Bay ~ Winery Spotlight

 

In a relatively short space of time, New Zealand has risen to become one of the world’s great wine producing nations. From New York to Sydney to London and beyond we are enormously proud Oyster Bay is one of the most loved and sought after wines internationally. From the moment we released our first vintage in 1990, winning Gold and the coveted Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for ‘Best Sauvignon Blanc in the world’, we knew. Blessed with the natural advantages of New Zealand’s maritime cool climate and ancient alluvial soils, Oyster Bay continues to capture the essence of New Zealand’s cool climate viticulture with our world-class range of elegant and assertive wines with glorious fruit flavors.

(This article was not written but gathered from various official brand/winery articles and published in GrapeBunch, our weekly wine periodical. Click here to read the original!)

Our vines flourish in some of New Zealand’s leading vineyards, in its most renowned wine regions, Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. And our state-of-the-art, winemaking facilities, have been carefully designed to preserve the intense varietal flavors which come from these unique sites.

Oyster Bay is a passion. It’s a vision. And ultimately, it’s a promise- to bring the very best of New Zealand wine to the world. We don’t make reserves, anything more, nothing less. We don’t reserve anything. We are the same family that’s been here from the very beginning only grown a little and learnt a lot.

Our winemaking philosophy is to capture the special character of New Zealand’s cool climate viticulture – to consistently produce distinctly regional wines that are elegant and assertive with glorious fruit flavors.

The flavors we love so much are there from the moment we pick the grapes. They come from the unique cool climate and ancient soils where our vines grow and we work hard, using a science and a love of the land to create remarkable flavors in every bunch.

The flavors take a whole season to create but can disappear in a moment. Our winemaker’s role is to capture this flavor in every glass. What sounds a little aggressive and simple, is in reality, gentle and complex. Each vineyard parcel, as we call them, are made individually to capture their own character. Our winemakers skillfully blend these to make a wine with complexity and of course, real personality. Our uncompromising attention to detail captures and retains fresh, incisive, cool climate fruit flavors and enables us to express the individual character and complexity of each region in our wine.

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* at time of publication, 11/14/2025

This article was not written but gathered from various official brand/winery articles for The GrapeBunch Wine Periodical.

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