Welcome to
Te Matuku Grove
Te Matuku Grove is located at the Eastern End of Waiheke Island, on the coastal slopes overlooking Te Matuku Bay Marine Reserve. Our main focus has been to restore the land by planting trees and building soil, using syntropic permaculture to grow nutrient dense food. We’ve planted over 3,000 native trees as shelter belts, fruit trees and an olive grove of 230 trees comprising mainly Frantoio and Koroneiki varieties. The olives are hand picked and then cold pressed producing our premium olive oil.
This seasons
Waiheke Extra Virgin
Olive Oil
Our tasty Koroneiki & Frantoio olives are hand-picked to produce this delicious well balanced olive oil. This seasons oil has fresh herb, green floral aromas with warm spicy notes. The aroma is very well balanced.
The aroma transfers well to the palate with a good level of ripe olive fruitiness and complexity, with flavours of salad leaves & rocket.
It is smooth, almost creamy, with a black peppery pungency and a lingering and moreish finish.
Our Olives
Our grove consists mainly of two cultivars, Frantoio (from Italy) and Koroneiki (from Greece). The trees are spray free, without using herbicides or pesticides. The annual harvest is usually May – June depending on the season and we are very grateful for friends and family that come along to help with the picking. We use “Alice” our electric hand rake to reach the larger trees and the smaller trees are picked by hand.
The olives are cold pressed within 24 hours of picking and then stored in stainless steel tanks to settle naturally for a few weeks before bottling. We use dark glass bottles to help protect the oil as exposure to light, heat and air can affect the quality. After opening the oil it is best stored in a cool dark place.
Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil is 100% natural, made entirely from the olive pressings without using heat or chemicals or any additives or preservatives right here on Waiheke Island. It is rich in heart healthy anti oxidants, along with vitamins E & K. There are no additives or preservatives.
Our Special Location
Te Matuku Grove is located at the Eastern End of Waiheke Island, in the North Island of New Zealand. We are on the coastal slopes overlooking Te Matuku Bay Marine Reserve. It is a special place in New Zealand, it’s warm coastal waters providing a unique micro-climate for growing olives and internationally acclaimed wines.
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Our
Stockists
Te Matuku Olive Oil is available at these local Retailers:
Upcycle ReDesign Store
118 Ocean View Road, Oneroa
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Waiheke Wine Centre
153 Oceanview Road, Oneroa
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True Blue
21 Belgium Street, Ostend
About us
We are blessed to be living in a caring and supportive community, with our wonderful neighbours and fellow ‘bottom enders’. Our animal companions include Riley & Louie the blue heelers, and Albie & Rosie our miniature horses. Along with this crew are plenty of Orpington chickens (most of our girls have names) and Silver Appleyard ducks.
We started with a bare piece of land twenty four years ago now, in 1999. Our main focus has been to restore the land by planting trees and building soil, using syntropic permaculture to support the growing of nutrient-dense food. To that end, we’ve planted over 3,000 native trees as shelter belts. We’ve also planted numerous fruit trees and are the proud owners of an established olive grove of 230 trees, comprised mainly of Frantoio and Koroneiki varieties.
Waiheke Island is officially free from possums but we are committed to ongoing pest control using A24 traps and bait stations to trap rodents and stoats. We are working in tandem with the Hauraki Gulf Conservation Trust towards their goal of creating a ‘predator-free Waiheke’. We also have an ongoing weed management programme to further encourage an increase in our native bird population. Since 2013 we have worked hard to develop food forests on our land based on permaculture design principles, which has proved very rewarding! Our free range chickens and ducks help out in this regard, by roaming through the property, naturally controlling the pests in the food forests. For this and for everything else, we are grateful!
Contact us
Want to know more? Or maybe you want to join us?
Drop us a line at Te Matuku
