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Established in 1896, Te Mata Estate remains family owned, producing internationally recognized wines exclusively from its Hawke?s Bay vineyards, located on New Zealand?s North Island. Te Mata Estate is home to New Zealand?s oldest vineyards and wine cellars with over 125 years of continuous wine production. Today, the Buck family delivers internationally acclaimed estate-grown wines of classical style, which represent the best qualities of their variety, vintage and vineyard. Te Mata Estate?s vineyards enjoy a temperate maritime climate and low rainfall year-round, due to the rain shadow from mountains to the west. Today, Te Mata Estate encompasses 135 hectares of vines planted across 4 subregions. First planted in 1892, the Havelock Hills are the heart of Te Mata Estate?s wine production and home to the winery. Te Mata Estate has five sites on these free draining, north-facing slopes featuring sandy loam soils. In 1996 the Havelock Hills area was recognized for the significance of its natural and viticultural heritage when it was designated the Te Mata Special Character Zone. Woodthorpe Terraces is nestled between sheltering hills on elevated, north-facing terraces of alluvial stone, clay and sandy loam in the Dartmoor Valley. The Bridge Pa Triangle is the warmest area and features free-draining silt loam over a red, mineral gravel base, which makes it a superb site for ripening red and white varietals. Te Mata Estate has two sites in Gimblett Gravels, an area where stony soils from the old Ngaruroro River were exposed after a flood in the 1860s, and which has an international reputation for the complexity, depth and detail of its wines.