StaEteLandt.co.nz
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Staete Landt Vineyards -- New Zealand Wine -- Winery in Marlborough, New Zealand
Description
We make true single vineyard handcrafted wines. All our wines are produced from grapes grown on the family estate on Rapaura Road, Marlborough, New Zealand. This allows us to make tremendous efforts in the vineyard to get balanced vines delivering consistently ripe healthy fruit with concentrated Marlborough flavours. In the winery we then nurture those flavours by using traditional winemaking methods combined with the latest winemaking technology. Our customers are true wine connoisseurs in New Zealand as well as overseas.
Staete Landt is the old Dutch name that Abel Tasman gave to New Zealand when he discovered the land in 1642. It probably means: "Land discovered in honour of the Governors (Staete) of the Dutch Republic". On his voyage Abel Tasman also discovered Tasmania (Van Diemen Land), Fiji and Tonga. At his return to the Dutch Republic it was decided to change Staete Landt to its present name "New Zealand".
(Translation: "Staete Landt This was sailed unto and discovered by the ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen under the command of the honourable Abel Tasman a.d. 1642, the 13th of December")
