Vineyard
The Landing is a single-estate vineyard and winery producing beautifully crafted wines with intense flavours and complex mineral characteristics. Our vineyard extends over 14 rolling coastal hectares, bordering forest and wetlands where kiwi and other native birds roam.
Climate
The warm, exposed coastal climate creates intensity and complexity of flavour, while the vineyard sits in a protective cradle of hills with a sheltered aspect through the long, balmy days of summer.
Sea breezes off Rangihoua Bay keep the vines dry as their roots tunnel deep into clay and sandstone soils for groundwater.
History
The Landing takes its name from its history as a place of arrival, where early Polynesian and European voyagers made landfall and built new lives in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was here that the first community of European missionaries and Māori lived alongside one another, and here that the country's original grapevines are thought to have been planted in the early 1800s. Over time the Purerua Peninsula's fertile soils and abundant marine life drew more settlers, and the area became a thriving hub of culture and trade for the region.
Since founding The Landing Wine in 2007, we have honoured that pioneering spirit with our own approach, and respected the land's beauty and abundance by nurturing and restoring it through sustainable viticulture. Today our label bears the symbol of three waka, honouring the journey of all who have occupied this land before us.
Two notes. The Marsden 1819 detail is deliberately left out so the pull quote does that work rather than repeating it. And "immigrants" from the live copy is now "voyagers" — it reads better for Polynesian arrival, which predates the idea of immigration to New Zealand.
Symbol
The Landing wines bear the symbol of three waka (canoes) - honouring the journey of those who occupied the land before us. The central waka brought senior family members, while the two on either side sailed as their protectors. Guided by the stars, they carried the first Polynesian explorers across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand and onto our shores. The stars are represented by three tukutuku (woven) crosses wrapped across the centre of each waka.
– Reverend Samuel Marsden, Bay of Islands, 26 September, 1819
