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Marlborough Wine Tour: Vineyard Stroll and Tastings
4.9
200 Ratings
Blenheim
Explore Marlborough’s wine region with a winemaker guide. Enjoy vineyard strolls, behind-the-scenes winery tours, and tastings at 4-6 wineries.
Duration:
6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Lawson’s Dry Hills - We begin the day by talking about the Marlborough wine industry, with informative vineyard stroll tasting the grapes and an ultra premium wine tasting at a boutique winery.
Lawson’s Dry Hills Wines showcases the unique characteristics of the region’s terroir through their elegant and expressive wines. Their commitment to sustainable practices and innovation further contributes to their reputation as a respected and sought-after winery.
- Allan Scott Family Winemakers - This is one of our favourite winery restaurants that we often stop at to enjoy a relaxed gourmet lunch.
- Ant Moore Wines Cellar Door - If you enjoy beer, cider or wine, we can finish the tour relaxing at our favourite local DNA brewery. It is an opportunity to taste local hand-crafted, and award winning beers!
If you don’t want to taste the beer, they also have award-winning Ant Moore wines.
- Makana Confections - If you like Chocolate then a stop at Makana confectionary is a must.
- Saint Clair Family Estate Vineyard Kitchen - Fantastic wine and food and is one of our preferred lunch restaurants on the tour depending on the weather and the size of the group.
- Framingham Wines - Visit a very unique organic wine producer. Potentially enjoy a behind the scenes tour of their wine cellar with an in-depth explanation of the winemaking process. Enjoy a tailor made wine tasting of a selection of their wines.
What's Included
- Vineyard Lunch stop during the tour - lunch at your own cost
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Free door-to-door collection and drop off from Blenheim/Renwick areas
- All wine tasting fees
What's Not Included
- Lunch - at your own cost on the day
- Note: We encourage our guests to have a good breakfast before the wine tour.
- Picton, Havelock, Rarangi, Hawkesbury & Waihopai transfers may be available with additional charge
- Cloudy Bay wine tasting. Cloudy Bay experience is included in both our Gourmet Gold, Private Tours.
Additional Information
With a winemaker as your guide; your tour starts with an informative vineyard stroll, followed by a behind-the-scenes look at a modern working winery. You can ask all those curly questions, and capture the best behind-the-scenes winery photos.
Next, we’ll get up close and personal with the Marlborough wine region and you’ll taste any delight that isn’t tied down. In our full day tour you visit 4-6 wineries which may include a local brewery (depending on the preferences of the group), with over 40 cellar doors to choose from, if you’ve got a favourite we’ll do our best to get you there. This tour does not include a visit to Cloudy Bay, Fromm and Hans Herzog. If Cloudy Bay is a must see then please book our Gourmet Gold Tour or a Private Wine tour
Lunch at a vineyard restaurant is always a highlight and is at your own cost. There is opportunity to visit the Makana Chocolate Shop.
Visit 4-6 wineries.
Location
Lawson’s Dry Hills
238 Alabama Road
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Rona_r
Aug 26, 2024
Awesome - Our host Darlene was amazing, knowledgeable and friendly. We visited many wineries and the chocolate place. Lunch was also wonderful.
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Steve_w
Aug 25, 2024
A Fantastic Day out - We had the pleasure of taking the tour and could not have has a better time out. Darlene, our guide was knowledgeable and friendly and indulged us in a couple extra stops. The tour is very well planned out, and our lunch was fantastic (At our additional cost). The bus was clean and comfortable for the short rides to the vineyards. We will definitely be back with friends!
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Mattyjkirk
Aug 19, 2024
Great insightful day tasting and learning about this wine region - Spent a great day with Darlene touring several wineries in the Blenheim area. Her experience and insight was outstanding and the selection of venues we visited was great. We really enjoyed ourselves and recommend you book if you want to enjoy some nice wine and learn a bit as you go.
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Sharrang2021
Aug 7, 2024
OMG OMG what a treat - We were picked up by our beautiful host Darlene who listened to our wine style and then took us to 5 amazing wineries that where all unique and wonderful. Our lunch stop was Saint Claire and the Vegatarian options where to die for, I was blown away by the Viognier. Gibson Bridge was a true joy. Husband and wife who have been creating constantly 95 plus Pinot Gris and in their mid 70s of age and still passionate about what they are doing. We were treated a quick stop at Makana Confection and a small whiskey shop. All wonderful. I chose Hop n Grape because it is a small family run company and with Darlene as our host we where not disappointed. I cannot recommend them enough. Thank you Thank you.
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Gcwharry
Jun 30, 2024
Fabulous day - Great day on the full days tour. We visited both large and small wineries with a great lunch at St Clair. Darlene was a fab host with lots of knowledge and patience. We learnt a lot and would highly recommend this tour.
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A4739lnchrisp
May 24, 2024
A wonderful days wine tasting - We have just come back from a wonderful days wine tasting with our amazing , knowledgeable guide Darlene. We were picked up and dropped off at our campervan as no one should drive after a days wine tasting! We visited 5 vineyards and even managed to get to a chocolate factory too! Darlene sorted out all the wines we liked to taste and even took us back to our favourite vineyard to buy more (it was Lawsons if you are interested) and so we cannot speak too highly of her. We shall definitely look at wines in a different way now. I cannot recommend this trip more highly as we had a fantastic day.
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Fearless67942178611
Apr 4, 2024
A great day out in Blenheim! - What a great experience this was trying the very best of Marlborough wines! Our guide Cam was extremely knowledgeable and put the whole group at ease. We visited 5 different wineries, learned a lot and definitely drank a lot. And to top it off we ended the day with a visit to a chocolate factory which Cam didn’t need to do which was a nice touch! All in all a fantastic day out, you learn a lot and most importantly you get to try a variety of unique wines (in particular Sauvignon Blanc which the area is known for)… and don’t be too daunted if it’s your first time wine tasting, it was my first time and I thoroughly enjoyed it! If you’re ever in Blenheim this should definitely be on your list!
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Chrisoe89
Mar 23, 2024
Great Wine Tasting with Darlene - We had a great day with Hop n Grape tour.
Our guide was Darlene. She was so kind and did a great job.
We learnt many things about wine and she answered all our questions.
We visited 5 winery and were lucky that we booked the option with the pick up from our accommodation.
We had such a amazing time, meet new people, enjoy a lot of wine and learn more about wine.
Thanks Darlene!!!
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P5214qcclaral
Mar 21, 2024
Great experience! We recommend!! - Excellent day spent alongside Darlene, our guide! Day full of discoveries, around twenty wines tested, passionate producers keen to introduce their territory. We also really enjoyed our lunch. Darlene allowed us to better understand the riches of this region. We also really enjoyed getting to know our small group with whom we shared this great day!
We definitely recommend!!
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Woodfinyorkshire
Mar 20, 2024
Exceptional day tasting great wines. - Cameron was an excellent guide, patient, kind and very knowledgeable. He took us to 6 varied wineries, including bubbles before lunch, and obviously had put real thought into the ones he had chosen. We were picked up from our accommodation on time and at no time in the day did we feel rushed.Lunch at one of the wineries was also excellent.
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