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Aorangi Digital Vine Passport

Your place in the season.

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Maraekakaho, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Vintage 2027

Illustrative record
Current chapter
Budburst
Next
Flowering

Illustrative digital member record only. It does not convey ownership of a physical vine, grapes, wine, land, or a guaranteed allocation.

Explore the Vine Passport

The Aorangi Vine

From a living vine to a bottle with meaning.

Your digital passport makes the distance between Maraekakaho and your table feel smaller. Receive the moments that shape a vintage, then share three digital vines with the people you want in your vineyard circle.

Rows of vines with autumn foliage under an open sky
Vineyard rows in autumn leaf change
Wooden Aorangi Road Vineyard sign beside vines
Aorangi Road Vineyard sign

The season

A vintage worth waiting for.

Follow the milestones that take your vine from its first green shoots to harvest and beyond.

  1. 01 · September

    Budburst

  2. 02 · November

    Flowering

  3. 03 · January

    Veraison

  4. 04 · February

    Ripening

  5. 05 · March

    Harvest

In the rows

Seasonal vineyard views from the owner’s recent photo upload.

Illustrative example — names, passport or vine IDs, vineyard or block details, varieties, dates, forecasts, map-style figures, and seasonal progress shown here are demonstration content unless identified elsewhere as a source-backed record.

Vineyard row viewed low from the grass
Vines in autumn colour
Vineyard rows with a path between them
Rows after leaf fall
Sunlit vineyard row with long shadows
Late-day light through the rows
Vineyard row looking toward a bright sky
A view along the vineyard

Harvest notes

The work behind the vintage.

These owner-supplied harvest photographs show equipment, fruit handling and people at work. They are a visual record of the harvest process, not a claim about a particular block or date.

Blue grape harvester alongside vineyard rows
Harvest equipment beside the vines
Freshly picked green grapes tipped into a collection bin
Fruit being transferred after picking
Harvest equipment and workers preparing beside vineyard rows
Harvest preparations in the vineyard
Worker beside harvest collection equipment
Harvest collection in progress

A shared place

The vineyard stays in Maraekakaho. Its circle reaches much further.

Each membership begins a relationship with a real place. Give three digital vines, invite your people in, and grow a global community around one Hawke’s Bay season.

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Our vineyard circle

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