CELESTIAL WINES, A TASTE OF NZ
www.celestialwines.co.nz
44 Bells Road
Nukuhou North RD Waimana
Tel 07 312 3644
Fax 07 312 3644
Email celestialwines@clear.net.nz
Maurice and Christine Hickford
Open 7 days
10am - 7pm
Wine Sales
Gift Packs
Bus Tours
Visit Celestial Winery in the Nukuhou North Valley 30k south of Whakatane on state highway 2. (20 minutes from Whakatane and Opotiki). Sample the boutique style fruit wines. The Celestial Winery welcomes visitors and is open for tastings 10am to 7pm seven days a week. Gift packs available and tour bus bookings welcome.
For more information check out our website www.celestialwines.co.nz
Flavours available from 'Celestial Wines'
Apple - Apricot
Blackberry - Blueberry - Boysenberry
Elderberry
Feijoa
Ginger - Grapefruit - Guava
Kiwifruit
Mead
Lemon - Lemon Ginger
Passionfruit - Pear - Plum - Plum Port
Quince
Raspberry - Rhubarb
Strawberry
Tamarillo
All 750ml Bottles - 11% Alc
Sparkling Fruit Wines Grape Wines
Feijoa Diamond
Blueberry Celestial Suprise
Strawberry
Kiwifruit
Passionfruit
Boysenberry
Maurice and Christine Hickford are realising their dream of running a boutique winery in the rural Eastern Bay of Plenty at their Nukuhou North Valley home, 30 km south of Whakatane.
Established in the year 2000 there are more than 20 flavours are on offer.
The most popular are boysenberry, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, passionfruit, and feijoa.
Celestial wines - named, say the Hickfords, because others have described the products as "heavenly" and "divine".
They come dry, medium or sweet and cost an average of seventeen dollars a bottle.
Celestial wines have developed two to three varieties of grape wines, a white wine and a Rose.
Maurice and Christine Hickford do not grow their own fruit. There is an abundance of delicious fruits in the area.
Once the decision was made to go commercial, the Hickfords designed and built their own dream winery alongside the house. The brewing , bottling and boxing are done on site and visitors can call in and taste the wines any day of the week.
The couple obtained a winemaking licence, gained bar management certificates and acquired an off-licence to sell wine to take from the premises. They also sell through email orders and regulary promote their wares at shows and exhibitions. Restaurants are starting to stock the wine, especially in tourist areas, and there is a possibility of exporting.
The bottles carry colourful labels designed to show the distinctive beauty of the couples little corner of the world.
Fruit wine is not only to drink with desert, say the Hickfords.
They suggest apple wine with pork, bluberry with steak, feijoa with roast mutton. lemon wine to marinate or poach fish in and pear wine as a nice lunch time or picnic aperatif. A cup of Tamarillo wine can transform a stew, as well as being delicious mulled with or without added spices.
When time allows, the Hickfords plan to share their tips and recipes in written form as well as in conversation.
Just off State Highway 2 on Bells Road.
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