The Cottage
Pet-friendly Free wireless internet provided.
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Sleepers are dreamers ~ share our dreams
the vineyard is our passion.
Our life gets a bit full on at times, like most people these
days.
It always surprises me how nature and the beauty around refreshes the soul. It is all here for the taking.
We love our animals, come and meet our Kune Kune pigs
Also our Gotland sheep with their amazing coloured wool,
free range hens and Vincent the rooster and the pond full of Pekin ducks.
Listen to our birds morning and evening song.
Kekerengu
Station ~ Past Passion
Latitude 42 S and Longitude 174 E
In the 1850s Kekerengu was no more than marsh valley and fern and bush covered hills.
Not until Joseph Tetley decided to settle here from England and start clearing the valley did the river start to flow, and a dream was born.
An "English" village was established at Kekerengu by Tetley who purchased an 80 acre property known then as
Mad Cap Flats.
By the late 1860s his holdings extended to some 94,000 acres.
"This year we will export more wool than anyone else in the Marlborough province."
- was written in one of his many letters back home.
Of the station buildings two of the cobs built in the early 1860s are still standing here at Sleepers Vineyard,
By 1886 wool price fell, Tetley was in financial trouble and, owing 66,000 Pounds, he fled the country for Uruguay.
Sleeperes Vineyard ~ Present Passion
Both cobs are now restored.
The former head shephards cottage is now our cellar door.
The former dinningroom/bunkhouse,which could sleep36 sheares is now
home to our Sensoery overload experience.
More infromation on our website below.
Sleepersvineyard.co.nz
Email me if you would like more infromatiom.