Auckland Wine Trail Tours...It's a must do!

Full Day Tour NZ$235pp 9.30am - approx' 5.00pm.

Includes 4 boutique wineries, 4 side trips, open menu main
course vineyard restaurant lunch & door to door service city area.

Optional Side Trips, all included, no extra charges. The Art of Cheese, Puhoi (gourmet cheese making & tasting), NZ Honey Centre (lots of bees & honey tasting), Morris & James Pottery and 800 year old giant Kauri trees.

No hidden extra charges.

Prices valid to 31 August, 2010.

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The East Coast region of Matakana wine country has a selection of small boutique wineries rapidly developing a big reputation for the excellent quality of their unique, estate grown, handcrafted wines.

"...best wine tasting lunch in New Zealand..."
Robin & James Stewart and friends,
Albany NZ & California USA

"...liked it so much we came back for seconds..."
Glen & Alison Milliman, Seattle USA

Your East Coast Auckland Wine Tour takes you North (approx' 50 minutes) over Auckland's Harbour Bridge, along the East Coast through small seaside towns and farming communities. You get some great views of the Hauraki Gulf and Pacific Ocean along the way.

Vineyards in the Matakana wine country are producing superb wines from grapes grown exclusively on their own estates. Some of the best boutique wineries in the country are doing things their way by growing grapes to suit each vineyard's individual "terroir", a combination of local climate and soil type, and following traditional, time honoured, labour intensive methods are creating distinctively styled wines.

Wineries we select from include Ransom Wines, Ascension, Hyperion, Brick Bay, Omaha Bay & Heron's Flight.

"...great wines, great lunch, great tour!..."
Adam Keane, Isle of Man, UK

You'll be able to experience NZ's only Carmenere (a Bordeaux grape once believed to be extinct!) and the only winery making exclusively Sangiovese & Dolcetto. Pinot Gris and Chardonnay are two local white specialities. In a recent vintage a Matakana winery was awarded Best NZ Merlot, beating all the favourites from Hawkes Bay! There are some wonderful Cab' Sav'/Merlot/Malbec/Cab' Franc to try as well as Syrah (Shiraz) and Pinot Noir.
Chat to the winemakers and find out some of their secrets.
Lunch is enjoyed at a vineyard restaurant overlooking the vines
(included).

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