Tironui Estate
Located in the heart of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Tironui Estate is a relatively new vineyard of five acres, established by Richard & Jennifer Brown on virgin hillside in 2002. Specializing in Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet Red Wine and a delicious Rosé wine.
The vineyard is nestled just below “Sugarloaf” in Taradale, overlooking New Zealand’s oldest winery “Mission Estate”, with views across Napier and out to Cape Kidnappers in the distance. A stylised version of the view from the winery, forms the prominent part of our distinctive label design.
All grapes are sourced exclusively from our own vineyard, where they are hand picked and aged in oak barrels. The wines go well with a wide variety of cuisine. For relatively young vines, the vintages are especially pleasing.
We hope you enjoy both this site and our wines. Have a look at our social media sites and we are always pleased to receive any feedback that you may have.
Our Philosophy
We have always enjoyed drinking wine and when the opportunity arose that enabled us to produce our own wine, it was too good to turn down. We wanted to produce a wine that would be enjoyed and appreciated, with distinct characteristics.
There are hundreds of wines from which to choose, so as a customer “why should I select Tironui over and above anything else?”
Most importantly, you must like it and at the same time there must be perceived value (which does not simply need to be restricted as to how much it costs).
Hopefully the following reasons will also tempt you to try Tironui, if you have not already done so.
- With no more than 5000 bottles being produced every year, you will be one of only a comparatively few people enjoying Tironui.
- All our grapes are from our own vineyard. We do not buy in grapes in bulk.
- Our grapes are barreled in French Oak, which adds to the flavour.
- Malbec is the prominent grape variety in the vast majority of our vintages. Malbec has a softer smoother finish than many red grape varieties and is still a not so common grape variety within New Zealand.
- Reviews of our wine have been very positive – many at the five star level.
- And of course, we like it and very much hope you will!