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Tohu Whenua wines celebrate being a gift from their tūrangawaewae, the place where they stand. Each wine is an expression of their uniqueness and enduring connection to the land.
This story doesn’t involve a family, an ambitious couple, or a maverick winemaker. It involves a friendship that started in an empty paddock and grew with a vineyard.
In 2019 Whitehaven will celebrate its 25th year in business. They were founded after the owners, travelling by boat, took shelter in the Marlborough sounds during a storm.
Josip Babich was one of the country’s founding winemakers and today his pioneering winery is still family-run, with grandson David at the helm.
Spectacularly located on the edge of Lake Dunstan in the Bendigo sub-region of Central Otago, Misha & Andy Wilkinson’s 57-hectare estate has a ’no compromise’ philosophy across all aspects of viticulture and winemaking.
"Tim and I were fresh from the “back to the land” movement of the late sixties. We wanted to make beautiful wine."
