Winery details for Self Pour Wines
Ara Wines
Astrolabe Wines
Ara is a family owned New Zealand company led by passionate people with a focus for delivering a new Marlborough wine experience. Made with grapes from one place, Ara single estate wines fuse the time-honoured art of winemaking with fresh ideas to amplify the natural qualities of our remarkable Marlborough location. All Ara’s fruit comes from a single, sustainably managed vineyard – one estate – where ancient glacial soils and low yields give our wines depth- delivering pure fruit expression with texture, elegance and refinement. The result is a strikingly different Marlborough experience.
When winemaker Simon Waghorn decided to create his own brand he chose the name “Astrolabe” because of the historic ties with Marlborough and the connotations of exploration and discovery. All Simon’s skill and experience, combined with capturing the essence of Marlborough in wines of purity, focus and elegance. Of special interest to Simon are the unique qualities of sub regionality as expressed in the Valleys wines, and how the sub regions can combine as Marlborough classics in the Province wines.
Winery Contact Details Matthew Adams Level 28, 188 Quay St, Auckland Marlborough +64 9 306 8684 +64 21 976 750 matthew.adams@ara.co.nz www.arawines.co.nz Agent/Distributor Contact Details Mark van Essen Fourcroy Nederland BV Parklaan 43, 1405 GP, Bussum +31 356 953349 MvanEssen@fourcroy.nl Elizabeth Wilson +44 788 1827838 elizabeth.wilson@ara.co.nz 12
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Winery Contact Details Jane Forrest-Waghorn PO Box 1152, Blenheim, Marlborough +64 3 577 6794 admin@astrolabewines.co.nz www.astrolabewines.co.nz Agent/Distributor Contact Details Jarrod Englefield Jean Arnaud Wijncom BV Orionstraat 30, 5015 BR, Tilburg +31 310 1358412 j.englefield@jeanarnaud.com