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Timeline

Mission Estate Winery has a fascinating past, surviving everything from floods to earthquakes, cutting the building into 11 parts and transporting it to its current site in Taradale using traction engines, all the while planting and growing grapes in Hawke's Bay. Check out some of the historical images below to follow our story.

Original Mission House, 1880
Vintage, Meeanee1895
Vintage, Meeanee circa 1900
Floods in Meeanee, 1905
On the move to Greenmeadows 1910
Mission Cellars, 1926
Students harvesting, Greenmeadows 1935
1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake
Bottling, 1955
Brothers in Prayer, 1965