From its very first vintage, which won gold and the Show Trophy for ‘Best Sauvignon
Blanc of the Competition’ at the 1991 International Wine & Spirit Competition in London,
Oyster Bay has continued to define the very stature and style of New Zealand wines.

Described more recently by leading London wine writer, Giles Kime, as “pretty close to being the elusive stuff of dreams”, Oyster Bay takes its name from the local ‘Oyster Bay’ on the tip of New Zealand’s majestic South Island. Oyster Bay’sreputation 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 Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blancs and Pinot Noirs 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, sun-drenched alluvial plains carved by ancient glaciers, Oyster Bay grows some of New Zealand’s most elegant and exciting, cool-climate Merlots.

Internationally-recognised for producing “elegant, assertive wines with glorious fruit flavours”, Oyster Bay is also a winemaker with great viticultural vision. Over two decades
ago it was Oyster Bay that recognised the enormous wine-growing potential that lay
beneath the stony, alluvial soils of a farming district in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay.
Today that region of Gimlett Gravels is producing New Zealand’s and the world’s
finest merlot wines.

Today the passion to innovate and raise the standard has challenged Oyster Bay to launch two sparkling cuvée wines into its internationally acclaimed range. Oyster Bay Cuvée Brut and Rosé are a whole new Oyster Bay experience to showcase New Zealand’s unique cool-climate flavour intensity. As expected, these wines remain true to the Oyster Bay philosophy of creating fine, distinctly regional wines that are elegant and assertive with glorious fruit flavours.

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