Liquid Pleasure is proud to introduce....
The Stanley Estates Vineyard, New Zealand.

Adventure, wine, viticulture and the environment

Sharing a passion for adventure, wine, viticulture and the environment, we decided to run
our own business in a beautiful  and stimulating environment.

Our boutique vineyard is located in Marlborough’s famed Awatere Valley. 

We are situated in the heart of Malborough just 7kms from the coast, 45minutes from the
aquatic playground of the Marlborough Sounds where we can enjoy a myriad of water
sports and in winter the ski slopes are just 2 hours away. 

2009 is the first year of Stanley Estates’ wines own label Sauvignon Blanc wine.

By 2011 we will be adding an exciting new Pinot Noir and a Pinot Gris to our wine portfolio.


We started work the day we arrived on our new block of bare land in the Awatere Valley in
June 2003, planting 7 hectares of Sauvignon Blanc and 3 hectares of Pinot Noir with Dijon
clones in our stony Dashwood loam soils.

Two years later we bought a neighbouring small block called “Little Oasis”, which was
already planted with Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. This block has really stony riverbed
soils.

In 2006 we transformed another bare land block, just opposite us across the southern side
of the Stafford Creek, into Sauvignon Blanc. This we call the SECC block.

We now have 3ha of Pinot Noir, 0.5ha of Chardonnay and 13.5ha of Sauvignon Blanc and
2ha of  Pinot Gris.

Steve runs the vineyard with the help of a succession of international backpackers. 

We take great care and meticulous attention to detail tending the vines to get the right fruit
to canopy balance which varies with the soil types of each block.

The vines are grown on a vertical shoot positioning trellis with two and three lifting wires.  
Leaf-plucking improves airflow around the fruit and minimises disease pressure whilst the
Pinot Noir simply needs more exposure to the sun