It is arguably most unlikely that they had any intention of founding a commercial wine industry. The overall unsuitability of grape growing in most of the West Auckland properties where the majority of them settled, would bear testimony to this. But this was a viticultural technicality unknown to them in those uncertain times. Survival was of paramount importance.

With the passage of time, however, the early 1970's ushered in a whole new awareness of grape growing for quality wine production in New Zealand. The search was on for more suitable vineyard sites away from Auckland. This coincided with the move away from the consumption of fortified wine, and the emerging love affair of consumers in the 1980's with the classic varieties of the world.

Nobilo Wine Group enjoys ownership and partnership of many diverse sites within the key wine-growing regions of New Zealand, namely Marlborough to the north of the South Island and Hawkes Bay and Gisborne, on the Eastern coasts of the North Island.