Muddy Water

Muddy Water PO Box 62, Waipara Administration - Jane East - 03 314 6944 or 03 355 5123, fax 03 314 6974       wine@muddywater.co.nz                           Winemaker - Belinda Gould - 03 314 6966 belinda@muddywater.co.nz                           Viticulturist - Miranda Brown - 03 314 6964 miranda@muddywater.co.nz                         website - www.muddywater.co.nz                 Tours and tastings - by appointment 03 314 6944

Made up of the words wai (water) and para (sediment), Waipara translates as Muddy Water. Situated on sunny slopes above the Waipara Valley, the first production from this small, family owned vineyard was in 1997.

The winery, probably the largest straw bale building in New Zealand, was built from the 2000 harvest. Muddy Water wines are really made in the vineyard. All the canopy management and crop thinning is done by hand, resulting in open vines with a low crop level and minimal use of vineyard pesticides.

Because the fruit is in perfect condition the juice is fermented by the vineyard yeasts and almost no winemaking additives used. All the grapes are sorted by hand with the white grapes carefully pressed as whole clusters. The red wines are fermented in open top fermenters and the cap of skins manager by hand.
Cellar handling and pumping is minimal and where possible the wines are bottled without fining or filtration.

Muddy Water wine – “taste the vineyard”.