Our food and beverage business, Kono NZ, is focused on high quality beverages, pipfruit and hops.

Kono

An associated business of Wakatū, Kono NZ LP is a food and beverage producer and exporter of premium wine, craft beer, pip fruit and hops. Aspiring to be the world’s leading indigenous food and beverage provider, Kono has a global consumer focus, including a wholly-owned trading entity in Shanghai.

Kono is a specialist across all aspects of its operations from farming, harvesting, processing and the marketing of wine, craft beer, apples, pears, kiwifruit, and hops, with operations focused in the Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough region.

Kono’s winemaking philosophy is to create a style of wine that encapsulates a place and time, which best reflect the sub-regions and vineyards of Marlborough and Nelson. All vineyards are certified by Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand.

Kono’s apples, kiwifruit, pears and hops are grown in our Motueka orchards. The long sunshine hours, high light intensity and sufficient rainfall result in nutrient dense, quality produce.