Vynfields' Vineyard
 
Vynfields’ vineyard is a boutique organic/biodynamic 5.3 hectare vineyard on the celebrated Martinborough Terraces. Vynfields is located on Omarere Road (off Puruatanga Road). The soils are free-draining with a thin layer of silt loam over old river gravels. The temperate climate has low rainfall, hot and dry summer days, and reliably dry autumns (with cool nights) which makes the Martinborough Terraces an ideal location for the cool climate grapes of Pinot Noir and Riesling.

The vineyard was originally planted in 1991 with 1 hectare of Riesling and 3 hectares of miscellaneous vines. John and Kaye replaced the latter by Martinborough proven Pinot Noir in 1998.







Handcrafted Organic Viticulture Practices

We are under conversion to organic viticulture certified by Bio-Gro New Zealand. Sprays and fertilizers used include, seaweed extracts, fish meal, sodium silicate, calcium and the Bio-Dynamic preparations.

To achieve top quality most activities are performed by hand:
The vines are cane pruned in winter time
Leaf plucking occurs in late spring to ensure exposure of the fruit and protection from fungal diseases
Fruit thinning, if necessary, is performed before veraison
Picking is done by hand with careful bunch and berry selection.  The grapes are collected in small stackable baskets to avoid damaging the fruit
Winemaking practices use hand plunging, gravity transfer and minimum pumping


We are grateful to our celebrated winemakers Kai Schubert and Marion Deimling (www.schubert.co.nz) who make superb wine from our grapes.