Villa Maria is one of New Zealand\'s leading winemakers.

A family owned New Zealand winery founded in 1961 by its current owner and Managing Director, George Fistonich, Villa Maria is 100% New Zealand owned.

New Zealand\'s leading wine award winner Villa Maria has been New Zealand's leading wine award winner, both nationally and internationally since the early 1980's.

Vineyards have the highest of priority for Villa Maria whose team really does live and breathe the philosophy that "it all starts in the vineyard." The grapes produced must be superb quality, as this is viewed as the essence of good winemaking. Villa Maria owns vineyards and sources grapes from contract growers from some of the best sites in three of New Zealand's leading grape growing regions; Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne. Villa Maria also has 20 hectares of vines at the Auckland winery site.