page_title: Nikola Nobilo
section_title: Nobilo Wines
hierarchical_section_title: Nikola Nobilo / Nobilo Wines
caption_attribution_description: English: Poverty Bay Chardonnay Nobilo - New Zeland
context_page_description: Nikola "Nick" Nobilo, OBE, was a New Zealand winemaker and founder of Nobilo Wines. He was originally from Croatia.
context_section_description: Nobilo and his family arrived in New Zealand in 1937 and settled in Huapai, west of the city of Auckland. They began planting grapes in Huapai in 1943. Gradually the Nobilos led New Zealand's wine industry away from hybrid grapes to an emphasis on classic grape varieties which produce higher quality wines.
  Nobilo came to head the family company, which grew to become one of New Zealand's largest winemakers. In the 1995 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the viticulture industry.
  In 1998, the company, then called Nobilo Vintners, purchased another award-winning New Zealand winemaker, Selaks. The Nobilo family company was, in turn, acquired by BRL Hardy, one of Australia's largest winemakers, 2000. BRL Hardy merged Nobilo with its Constellation Brands wines in 2003.
  The new combined company, Constellation Wines, was able to distribute Nobilo wines throughout New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
  Nobilo continued to produce wines after the acquisition.  Nobilo Wines were named New Zealand's wine producer of the year in 2003. Nobilo's sauvignon blanc also won the award for best sauvignon blanc at the international wine and spirit competition in 2000.
caption: Poverty Bay Chardonnay Nobilo - New Zealand
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