Johannesof Cellars is a true boutique winery established in 1991 by German born Edel Everling and New Zealander Warwick Foley.
Both trained at Geifenheim University in Edel's native home town of Rheingau and have worked in both the New Zealand and German wine industries. Johannesof Cellars produce onsite soley from Marlborough grapes a variety of quality white, red, and dessert wines, with the methode traditionnelle emmi 'being the flagship wine.'
New Zealand's first underground rock seller. This very traditional wine seller was blasted 50 meters into sandstone hill in Koromiko, where the wines mature at a constant temperature of 12 degrees and the both cemented methode traditionnelle emmi 'rest on its lees for two to three years.' Winner of 1995 and 1997 Air NZ Marlborough Tourism Award in the Wine and Beverage Activity and Attraction category.
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