Innovative Collaborative Marlborough

Small batch, organic, premium contract winemaking

Innovative Collaborative Marlborough

Small batch, organic, premium contract winemaking

Innovative Collaborative Marlborough

Small batch, organic, premium contract winemaking

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About

Driving Diversity

Ben Glover and Rhyan Wardman are business partners and winemakers born in the 70s, who loved the 80s and met at wine college in the 90s. Combined, these Marlborough winemakers have more than fifty years’ winemaking and wine management experience.

The way they see it, our wine region has been missing a trick when it comes to celebrating and promoting diversity. They identified a need for a winemaking hub to provide a platform for wine excellence and innovation that would challenge the status quo.

Together they’ve created The Coterie, a winemaking collective.

The Coterie is a hub for premium, contract winemaking. The winery is certified organic and located on the Wairau Terrace, looking towards the Richmond Ranges. It’s a winery built on transparency, innovation and collaboration.

A place to host and call your own; but more than that The Coterie is a space for winemakers to gather around the kitchen table to share ideas, innovate and apply these learnings to their own wines and winemaking practise.

Ethos

Collaborating
Championing personality
Constantly innovating
Sharing ideas
Bettering the architecture of Marlborough Wine

The ethos of The Coterie is to question the way things have been done in the past. We encourage discussion, open minds, collaboration and confidence. We strive to lift quality in all we do and therefore the architecture of not only your wine, but holistically of Marlborough wine.

"We are looking to positively disrupt for the betterment and future relevance of our regional winemaking"

– BEN GLOVER

Crew

We are a bunch of inquisitive like-minded cellar hands with a global understanding of the world of premium wine. This philosophy is taken into The Coterie atelier, our shared space where we all pitch in to achieve our clients desired results.

With a huge emphasis on nurturing small batch, high quality wines, we treat the wines as our own, using best industry practice.

We want our clients to walk through the Coterie and believe that they couldn’t have done a better job themselves.

We are a collective who enjoy each other’s company. We want to see the Marlborough industry grow in recognition, and it all starts here on the Coterie floor.

Clients

small batch, premium contract winemaking

Our architecturally designed winery is organically certified by Biogro standards. The fully equipped winery has a current capacity to process 1300 tonne of fruit and includes an 800 capacity, temperature-controlled barrel hall.

The Coterie kitchen table is a shared space, and the heart of our business. This is where we meet, discuss, disrupt and a place that our clients can call their own. With uninterrupted views out to the Richmond Ranges, it is somewhere to bring guests and showcase the wines made at this incredible site.

Our WHĀNAU

Client Resources

accreditation

Friends

Table Talk

Latest Posts ⟶

We are recruiting!

We are on the hunt for our newest recruit to join the winemaking team! Full time, permanent cellar hand role up for grabs.

The Coterie Olive harvest 2019

The annual friends and family Olive harvest at The Coterie kicked off on Sunday 16th June,

The Coterie joins Organic Winegrowers NZ

The Coterie joins Organic Winegrowers New Zealand (OWNZ).

Glover to judge South African awards

Ben Glover, has been invited to attend the annual (MIWA), in South Africa as an international guest judge.

Vintage 2019 wrap up

As the 2019 vintage comes to a close and we press off the final wine…

Sauvignon NZ lunch

We held a lunch in conjunction with Zephyr, as part of the three day International Sauvignon Blanc Celebration.

THE COTERIE IS BIOGRO CERTIFIED

We have received official BioGro certification, for our organic winery and vineyard.

GLOVER TO DEPUTY CHAIR NZ WINE AWARDS

Coterie co-owner, Ben Glover, has been named Deputy Chair of the inaugural New Zealand Wine of the Year competition 2018.

THE COTERIE TO SPONSOR PROVENANCE TROPHY

The Coterie is to sponsor the Wine Provenance Trophy at The Marlborough Wine Show.

NEW ZEALAND WINEGROWER

Back in 1996, Rhyan Wardman arrived back in New Zealand to a job overseeing the building of Seresin Estate’s new winery. Twenty-two years later, he now owns that winery with good friend and fellow winemaker Ben Glover.

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