Martinborough

Central Otago has received much of the press in recent years, but many wine cognoscenti believe that the Martinborough subregion of the Waiparapa shows the most potential in New Zealand for delivering Burgundian character in Pinot Noir. Waiparapa, or ‘The Land of Glistening Waters’, was reputedly named by Kupe, the Maori navigator that is said to have discovered New Zealand. A pastoral area spotted with boggy swamps, Waiparapa consists of a long valley of ancient gravels carved out by rivers that ages ago flowed from the Tasman Sea. It is the driest region of the North Island.

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