regionMartinborough
A gravel terrace at the south end of the North Island, in the rain shadow of the Tararua Range, with a town laid out as a Union Jack. Small, dry, windy, and planted almost entirely to pinot noir.
Facts
| country | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| level | gi |
| soil | river gravel over clay |
| region | Martinborough, New Zealand |
| where | -41.2200, 175.4600 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 138.5 km — Marlborough region
Its kin
the vinePinot noirThe reason the terrace was planted at all.regionCentral OtagoThe country's other pinot argument, 900 km south.cloneAbel clonePropagated here first, and named for the customs officer.and of this page it says: Where it was first propagated in quantity.
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.