New Zealand Winery Tips

On tours, trails and wineries!

Use these New Zealand Winery Tips on tours, trails and wineries to plan your itinerary.You will certainly be fitting in a host of other activities as you tour the country but some inside knowledge on where to find wineries en route, trails you can follow, and what wine you might choose when you want to select from the huge array, to go with a meal, will ensure you enjoy our wines for every occasion.

Not sure about New Zealand wines? Want to know more about what varieties and where to find some good tasting experiences. These winery tips offer You Tube videos,and websites I have selected.

Look at my comments from my personal experience at New Zealand wineries.

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New Zealand Wine Festivals

My New Zealand Winery Tips List of possible wineries to visit. Selected from throughout New Zealand, there are many, many more.These are some of the better known New Zealand wineries.I have listed Winery directories, vineyards you can visit, and local Wine Trails you might like to follow.

• Marlborough

Hunters wines - Jane Hunter is a well known New Zealand viticulturalist. http://www.hunters.co.nz/

Review of Screw Tops and Marlborough Wines

About Marlborough Wines - for more information. http://www.wine-marlborough.co.nz/home.htm

Wines of Marlborough Directory
http://www.winesofmarlborough.co.nz/

Spy Valley - so named because it is in the Waihopai Valley and close to an international communications monitoring system! http://www.spyvalleywine.co.nz/

• Hawkes Bay

Sileni Estate
http://www.sileni.co.nz/index.cfm

Mission Estate - New Zealand's oldest wine makers it was established in 1851 by the French Marist religious order.An interesting stop. http://www.missionestate.co.nz

List of Hawkes Bay wine tour operators http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/Food__Wine_1447.aspx?Type=373

• Gisborne

Gisborne Wine Page- information
http://www.gisborne.co.nz/wine/

• Canterbury – Waipara, Akaroa, Banks peninsula

French Farm - This is a lovely place to lunch - especially in summer http://www.frenchfarm.co.nz/

Geisen Wines - a popular wine brand in New Zealand http://www.giesen.co.nz/

Daniel Schuster Wines
https://secure.danielschusterwines.com/index.html

• Auckland

Waiheke Island which has a plethora of boutique wineries, Matakana just north of Auckland and Kumeu are the main wine areas.

Waiheke Island Wines
http://www.waihekewine.co.nz/

Ascension Winery - Matakana

Rongapai Wines ( now owned by Babich) - Te Kauwhata http://www.rongopaiwines.co.nz/

• Wairarapa – especially Martinborough

Te Kairanga Wines
http://www.tekairanga.co.nz

Palliser Wines
http://www.palliser.co.nz

• Otago

Queenstown Wine Trails
http://www.queenstownwinetrail.co.nz/wine/index.htm

Mt Difficulty Central Otago
http://www.mtdifficulty.co.nz/

Gibbstone Valley Wines
http://www.gvwines.co.nz/

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