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Private Martinborough Foodie Delights Tour: Exclusive Culinary Journey
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Remutaka Hill
Embark on an exclusive culinary journey with the Private Martinborough Foodie Delights Tour. Enjoy majestic scenery, artisan chocolate, winery visits, platter lunch, and more!
Embark on an exclusive culinary journey with the Private Martinborough Foodie Delights Tour. Enjoy majestic scenery, artisan chocolate, winery visits, platter lunch, and more!
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Remutaka Hill - Pause at the summit of Remutaka Hill (555 meters above sea level) to admire the breathtaking views and visit the Remutaka Crossing monument, which honors the 60,000 New Zealand soldiers who journeyed from the Featherston military camp to Wellington Port between 1915 and 1918. This stop is dependent on weather conditions.
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- Remutaka Hill - Pause at the summit of Remutaka Hill (555 meters above sea level) to admire the breathtaking views and visit the Remutaka Crossing monument, which honors the 60,000 New Zealand soldiers who journeyed from the Featherston military camp to Wellington Port between 1915 and 1918. This stop is dependent on weather conditions.
- C’est Cheese - Explore C’est Cheese, renowned for New Zealand’s finest Brie (2021), and enjoy tasting locally crafted cheeses, including ‘Remutaka Pass,’ along with other New Zealand-produced varieties.
- Greytown Honey - Discover the fascinating world of beekeeping at Greytown Honey, a family business spanning five generations. Get an up-close view of a live beehive (while wearing a secure beekeeper suit!), tour the honey factory to learn about the process of creating award-winning honey, and sample a variety of locally made honeys, including the famous New Zealand Manuka Honey.
- Poppies Martinborough - Delight in sampling up to five wines at one of Martinborough’s most picturesque wineries. The Poppies Rosé is highly recommended! Following the wine tastings, savor the renowned Poppies platter lunch, featuring local produce.
- Juno Olives - Enjoy a leisurely walk through the Juno Olives grove with the olive oil maker and gain a comprehensive understanding of olive cultivation and the production of exceptional Extra-Virgin Olive Oil. Taste a selection of award-winning Extra Virgin Olive Oils and infused/Agrumato oils. Note: The Olive Grove tour and tastings may be unavailable during the harvest season (mid-May to mid-June).
- Schoc Chocolates - Indulge in a variety of artisan chocolates crafted on-site.
- The White Swan Country Hotel - Experience a guided tasting flight of locally produced Wairarapa Gins.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Entry fees
- Tasting fees
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Customer gift
- Lunch
- Bottled water
- Private transportation
- Entry fees
- Tasting fees
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Customer gift
- Lunch
- Bottled water
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Additional Information
This tour is exclusively yours!
No mixed groups allowed!
Enjoy the luxury of having a dedicated Driver/Guide and ‘Memory Creator’ throughout your entire journey.
Delight in a 7-hour private tour from Wellington to the South Wairarapa, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a visit to an Artisan Chocolate factory, and stops at Gladstone and Martinborough…
This tour is exclusively yours!
No mixed groups allowed!
Enjoy the luxury of having a dedicated Driver/Guide and ‘Memory Creator’ throughout your entire journey.
Delight in a 7-hour private tour from Wellington to the South Wairarapa, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a visit to an Artisan Chocolate factory, and stops at Gladstone and Martinborough Wineries. Savor a spectacular platter lunch at one of the wineries, along with local cheese and craft beer tastings.
Explore the charming town of Martinborough, renowned as the ‘Capital’ of Pinot Noir in the North Island.
If there’s a specific winery you’d like to visit, arrangements can be made in advance.
Please note that parts of this tour are only available to those 18 years and older (wine and craft beer tastings).
Note: For cruise ship passengers, this tour will operate on a slightly reduced itinerary.
- For children under the age of 7 an approved child restraint seat must be used and be supplied by the customer. If an approved child restraint seat is not available the tour cannot proceed.
Location
Remutaka Hill
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(22 Ratings)
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117fionac
Apr 27, 2025
Martinborough wine region - a great day out - We organized a private day tour with Tom, from Wellington through the Martinborough wine region. Tom was friendly, informative and a great guide. We visited 4 wineries, had a delicious lunch, and were delivered back to our accommodation feeling very satisfied. A thoroughly enjoyable day!
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Barbaraiz2885qp
Mar 2, 2025
The Magnificent Martinborough Melange of Wine, Cheese, Olive Oil, Food & Buzzy Busy Bees - Honey Harvests.nge - Our outstanding guide, Tom, excelled in sharing his knowledge and artisan friendships through majestic summer scenery.. learning wine secrets, tasting superb cheeses, dunking more olive oil flavors than we knew, spotting the Queen and witnessing the births of her worker bees 🐝.
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Janewb7066cv
Feb 16, 2025
An unforgettable day - Our guide, Dean, did an outstanding job telling us about our stops. He was knowledgeable and congenital. We learned so much and tasted such delicious food and wines. The tour was well worth the price!
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Andrey_n
Jan 20, 2025
Fun day outside of Wellington. - Meeting owners of small local businesses, who were so passionate about their products was priceless. Tour was organized in the way that we experienced so much in one day, but never felt rushed. Honey, wine, olive oil, cheese, chocolate, ice cream - most delicious tour we ever had! We liked that Dean participated in every activity with us and shared lunch with us. It really felt like group of three friends, instead of guide and a couple, where the tour guide usually waits in the car.
Introduction video from Tom prior the tour was a nice personal touch! Crossed ways with Tom several times during the day and it was wonderful!
Dean offer us some tips and recommendations for places we will be visiting next, so we are well equipped to continue exploring beautiful New Zealand! What a memorable day! Thank you Kaewa Tours.
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X6732kkleannew
Jan 7, 2025
Martinborough Foodie Delight Tour from Wellington, New Zealand - Martinborough Foodie Delight was an awesome, fantastic, informative day out with our tour guide Janice! We were looking forward to the day and it was above our expectations! Janice pointed out so many extra areas of interest during the day and explained everything so thoroughly….it was a lot more than we expected. We truly felt spoiled by the end of the day which as much as it was a full exciting day…it was over too soon. As a local business Tom from the beginning with his friendly welcoming emails and thank you for supporting a local business really added that personal touch. We just received an email with which totally explained and reviewed exactly what saw and and did that day…a day we will remember for a very very long time. As retired dairy farmers from Canada, supporting local is always number 1 too us.
THANK YOU AGAIN JANICE!!!! What a great day we had …you made us feel like family 🥰
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57malcolmh
Nov 2, 2024
5 Stars! - Our private tour with Kaewa Tours from Wellington to Martinborough was truly unforgettable!
The real highlight, though, was Tom himself. There are tour guides and tour operators, and then there’s Tom and Kaewa Tours. Tom feels more like a friend showing his visiting relatives around his hometown than a traditional tour guide. His humor, knowledge, and dedication to making every tour memorable are why I couldn’t recommend Kaewa Tours highly enough!
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Mondemere
Sep 19, 2024
Adventurous Delights - My husband and Ispent a wonderful day with Tom Collier. After picking us up at our hotel in Wellington, we began our drive over the mountains into Martinborough, stopping first at the Rimutaka Memorial which commemorates 60,000 New Zealand troops who made the crossing between 1915 and 1919. We then visited Poppie's Winery, enjoying some fine wines and a delicious lunch. On to Greytown Honey where we donned our beekeeping suits and learned all about harvesting honey. We were able to taste their several different levels of manuka honeys. We then drove into Greytown and stopped at Schoc Chocolates, tasting too many (!) of their 60 different flavors. On the way back into Wellington, Tom made an unscheduled stop to one of the filming sites of the Lord of the Rings movies, where we were able to take a short hike and walk off some of the day's many delights.
I would highly recommend this tour for anyone looking to sample some of New Zealand's finest offerings. Thanks Tom!!!
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Road58771035041
Jun 23, 2024
Private Martinborough Tour - Highly recommend Kaewa Tours! We were visiting the area for the first time from the US and needed a private driver. Tom setup a Zoom to meet us live and review our needs. He setup a customized daily itinerary for the family ensuring that we got to our destinations timely and incorporated several tours along the way. He was prompt, flexible, professional, knowledgeable, knew everyone and most importantly had a great sense of humor. He became just an extension of our family. We thoroughly enjoyed New Zealand and were lucky enough to have Tom guiding us.
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Mandysf3981rd
Jun 10, 2024
Best in region!! 😀 - My husband and I had the pleasure of a free lance Kaewa Tour and we jumped at the opportunity. I have had the pleasure of a Foodie Tour in the past with my best friend and this time I took my husband. We stayed in Martinborough at another good friends business (exquisite) and this allowed for multiple local wine tours, a visit to the Honey Farm, Olive farm and a gin tasting. I noted there was a few companies doing similar jobs around the town that were offering a good (driver service) which had me feeling like I chose the best in the region. Tom and Jill were amazing hosts that were with us each step of the way. Incredibly well known and loved by all staff of all businesses we visited and we got some pretty good purchase deals along the way due to these established relationships. Absolute next level service, don't book anyone else. These guys are your one stop shop for local knowledge, care and engagement. Loved the whole weekend and we will be back again. Third time is the ultimate charm right? 😁
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Starbaby12
Oct 7, 2023
Top marks to Tom - The day tour was jam packed. Went to a cheese place poppies winery chocolate factory and juno olives. Tom was a great tour guide. Highly recomend tgx for the very thoughtful gift Tom
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