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Cromwell · Central Otago

Sarita Orchard

Finest quality cherries available to buy online. Corporate and residential fruit orders delivered nationwide.

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Welcome to Sarita Orchard

Grown in the heart of New Zealand's cherry country

Sarita Orchard is based in sunny Central Otago, famous for the production of premium summerfruit and wine. The orchard is located in the heart of New Zealand's cherry growing region, five kilometres from Cromwell, close to the banks of the Kawarau River as it flows into Lake Dunstan.

Our cherries are grown under a sustainable, eco friendly integrated pest and disease management system called Summergreen, and packed using state of the art optical sorting technology.

About us
Rows of cherry trees in full blossom at Sarita Orchard
Online shop

Fresh cherries, delivered nationwide

Choose your box and a dispatch date. We send cherries within New Zealand only.

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Ripe red cherries on the tree at Sarita Orchard

Central Otago cherries

Fresh from our orchard near Cromwell.

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Our superb variety of cherries

Central Otago's cold winters and hot summers are ideal for cherry production: enough winter chill for good bud initiation, and the summer heat for the high sugars and quality finish expected of top export fruit.

Sweetheart

Large crunchy red fruit with dark red sweet flesh. Becoming our district's major export variety.

Primavera

A sweet summertime cherry available for Christmas. Bright red with pink melting flesh.

Rainier

White fleshed, large and very sweet. A very popular export variety.

Bing

Red black, sweet and crunchy. Possibly the world's best known variety.

Lapins

Large sweet fruit, deep red in colour. Our most requested mid season variety.

Kordia

Dark red, distinctively firm and crunchy, with a very sweet full flavour.

All 15 varieties
Sarita Orchard cherry boxes

Corporate orders

Give your key customers and employees healthy and delicious cherries this Christmas. We can include your card in each box and deliver to one or many addresses.

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 Picking buckets along a row of cherry trees

Seasonal work

Cherries are harvested and packed between 10 December and 28 January. We employ seasonal workers, with onsite accommodation available.

Seasonal work & recruitment
 Sarita Orchard with the Central Otago hills behind

About the orchard

First planted in 1984, Sarita Orchard now produces and packs 15 varieties of cherries for local and export markets, and employs 120 people at the peak of the season.

Our story
From the orchard

From blossom to harvest

Spring blossom and the bees at work, then ripe cherries ready to pick.

  • Rows of cherry trees in full blossom
  • Cherry blossom with a bee
  • A branch of cherry blossom against the sky
  • Cherry blossom close up
  • A bee flying to cherry blossom
  • Blossom on a cherry tree in the orchard
  • Cherry blossom against a blue sky
  • Cherry blossom by the orchard shed
  • Ripe red cherries on the tree
  • A cluster of ripe red cherries
  • Red cherries hanging among the leaves
  • Rainier cherries ripening on the tree
  • Ripe cherries on the branch
  • Red and yellow cherries on the tree
  • Dark red cherries on the branch
  • A single ripe cherry among the leaves
  • Cherries ripening in the sun
  • Dark cherries on the tree
Location

Just outside Cromwell on State Highway 6

On the main road to Queenstown, in Central Otago: as far inland as you can get in New Zealand, and an area of extremes both of climate and landscape.

  • Highlands Motorpark 500 m
  • Cromwell 6 km
  • Alexandra 31 km
  • Queenstown 55 km
  • Wanaka 62 km
  • Dunedin 226 km
Sunrise over the orchard dam
Enquiries

Get in touch

Cherry orders

[email protected]
03 445 1183, option 3

All other enquiries

[email protected]
03 445 1183

Find us

Sarita Orchard
Rapid 436, RD2
Cromwell 9384

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