Established in 1896, Te MATA ESTATE is one of the New Zealand's oldest wineries. The family-owned estate is specializing in grape growing and winemaking from its 120ha Hawke's bay vineyards- all estate grown and hand harvest. Hawke's Bay as the second largest wine region in New Zealand has great warm dry maritime climate, free draining soil types, gravel plains, hillside slopes and river terraces which are ideally suitable for Cabernets, Syrah, Chardonnay etc... Te MATA makes 65% Bordeaux blend and Syrah and 35% Whites. One of the New Zealand first and finest Syrah Bullnose, barrel femerted Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc and the cost cutting Estate Vineyard single vineyard series. 2012, Mr. John Buck the owner of the winery in his 70th year was awarded with "New Zealand Order of Merit". "I've always believed that New Zealand wine, and the arts, can foot it with the world's best. All I've ever done is put that belief into practice. It's been a pleasurable challenge." said John. Elston is named for Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire, the ancestral home of Charles Darwin’s family. Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory, the foundation of biology. The wyvern symbol of Elston Hall appears on the label.