Sample Award-Winning Wines on a Half-Day Marlborough Discovery Tour in Blenheim
4.8
104 Ratings
Blenheim
Join our half-day Marlborough Discovery Tour in Blenheim. Taste award-winning wines, enjoy a delicious lunch, and learn about vineyard practices. Book now!
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Marlborough Region - Allow our charismatic & knowledgable team to ensure your Discovery Wine Tour is the highlight of your Marlborough experience.
Enjoying up to 4 Cellar Door experiences, with wine in mind your will be enjoying the vineyard views and vines, the fun of fellow travellers and the stories that will make your day a feast for your senses.
What's Included
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All standard tasting fees at wineries visited
What's Not Included
- Lunch is an extra cost to allow personal selection
Additional Information
Our seasoned Tour Guide will pick you up from the specified lodging roughly 15 minutes prior to the tour’s commencement. The selected journey will last around 5 hours before concluding at your lodging. We’ll initiate our exploration at a renowned Vineyard Cellar Door, where a wine tasting session accompanied by lunch will set the tone for the day. Following the meal, an entertaining afternoon will unfold featuring around three more Cellar Door visits, offering the chance to relish award-winning, top-tier vineyard wines. If time allows, we’ll give you insight into vine cultivation, pruning and harvesting techniques that contribute to the making of superb wine. All costs associated with the Cellar Door tasting sessions are covered in your tour rate. However, lunch expenses are not included and will be borne by the guests on the day of the tour. For tailored and premier private tours, kindly check our website. Should you have any unique requirements, please mention them during the booking stage.
- Children are not allowed on this tour
Location
Blenheim Central
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(104 Ratings)
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Mary_s
Apr 20, 2024
Wonderful wine tour - Our guide, Bill, was knowledgeable, friendly, and had a terrific sense of humor. At the end of our tour he dropped us at two different destinations and that door to door service was greatly appreciated. The lunch we had at the first vineyard was delicious. At each vineyard we visited each host provided interesting details about their vineyard's history and the make-up of each wine. Interesting stories were given how the wines got their names and in each presenter you could see their enthusiasm for the products they were serving. The wines were delectable. Highly recommend this tour.
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Adventurer701879
Mar 8, 2024
Not just Sauvignon Blanc! - Well organised, good choice of restaurant for lunch, personable, entertaining and informative guide. Four smaller wineries, variety of wines - not just the signature Sauvignon Blanc!
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Deanna_t
Mar 2, 2024
Great time - Friendly driver, on time departure and lovely wineries. Nice lunch where we sat outside. Great service
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Trompet110
Mar 1, 2024
Great wine afternoon - Excellent wine tour with very different wineries that were prepared to respond to the individual wishes of the group. The guide Toni was excellent and knew a lot about the tour and the wine. Recommended!
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911ae
Mar 1, 2024
cool wine tour - started with a delicious lunch and wine tasting followed by a visit to 3 other cellars with No. 1 champagne at the end, Bill was top driver
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Mike_s
Feb 26, 2024
Great value tour - This was a really fantastic tour with a small group of other lovely people. Chris, who drove the bus and took us around, was very knowledgeable and we sampled a good variety of wines at 4 different wineries. Lunch at the first vineyard was very reasonably priced and lovely. Highly recommend this tour.
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723nigeld
Feb 20, 2024
Excellent half-day tour - We’d done a full day wine tour six ears ago and it was a little too much. This trip sounded just right.
Bill picked us up at our hotel in the middle of Blenheim. After two more pickups, 4 couples were on their way.
We were taken to 4 of the smaller vineyards in the region, all between Blenheim and Renwick. Lunch was an option at the first so, since we were eating out in the evening, we shared a small cheeseboard.
The tastings were all first-rate. Although some of the wines weren’t ones we’d normally drink, the descriptions and the tastings were always enjoyable.
To finish, we visited a small chocolate-maker. A nice way to end the day.
Bill was a superb guide. He stayed with us the whole time (drinking water), and adding to the general experience with additional explanations and stories.
Thoroughly recommended! 👍😁
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Christopherga5250zy
Feb 29, 2024
Stop whining and start wining! - Prompt and professional. Very good lunch stop,4 very good wineries. Chocolate shop stop at the end. Nice day out with a brunch of great people we wet along the way.
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Karen_f
Feb 23, 2024
Fun and informative - We did the half day tour and were picked up from our hotel by Bill, our driver, who did a great job of ferrying us around the 4 different vineyards and knew a lot about the area. The first stop was at Alan Scott, which was lovely but it seemed they were more interested in getting us to eat and pay for the lunch they provided than educating us on their wines. Gibson Bridge, our 3rd stop, stood out as a great family run vineyard who are passionate about their wines and made the tasting much more entertaining. All in all it was a fun half day with plenty of delicious wines on offer.
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Vicki_f
Feb 19, 2024
Feb 2024 - The company of Friends made the trip memorable.
More time to enjoy the wineries would be nice.
Looking forward to going again.
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