Award Winning Premium Wine Tour Queenstown Tasting at 4 Wineries
Description
Voted the World’s Best Wine Tour Begin your day with a warm welcome from your wine-certified guide at (or near) your Queenstown accommodation before setting off into the Gibbston wine region celebrated for its world-class wineries, passionate winemakers & outstanding Pinot Noir. Enjoy four unique tasting experiences across boutique cellar doors & iconic estates, including a visit to New Zealand’s largest wine cave. Venues typically include Gibbston Valley, Ayrburn, Kinross & Mt Rosa, (subject change if a cellar door is closed). Throughout the day, your expert guide and cellar hosts will enrich each tasting with stories, insights & wine expertise. For those looking to indulge further, there’s the option to add a delicious winery bistro lunch (ordered on the day, additional cost). Whether you’re a passionate wine enthusiast, a curious explorer, or simply seeking a memorable Queenstown experience, this award-winning journey pairs good people with great wine for an excellent day out
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Itinerary
The first stop of the day is at the iconic Gibbston Valley Winery. Gibbston Valley is one of the region's founding wineries and it's here that we will join a guided tour through New Zealand's largest underground wine cave and enjoy tastings of some of their world-famous wines.
Kinross is our second stop and a fantastic location to try a range of different wines across multiple labels. Along with producing their own wines, their cellar door host will also showcase wines from smaller producers and share their incredible stories of how they came to be. After your wine tasting, we allow extra time to enjoy lunch. Kinross has a range of delicious dishes on its menu, including pizzas, platters, smaller bites, and mains. This is ordered and paid directly on the day, giving you the flexibility to order what you would like based on your taste and budget.
Mt Rosa is a boutique owner-operated winery and their stunning location is situated just below the impressive Nevis Bluff. Sitting in the vines, their newly built cellar door building gives you a sophisticated backdrop to a delicious tasting menu. Their cellar door host will take you through different varieties of their single-label wines. Their mulled wine is a customer highlight!
We finish our tasting tour at our fourth stop Ayrburn, where you’ll enjoy a self-guided wine flight in the charming Manure Room or outdoors (weather-dependent), surrounded by beautiful historic grounds - truly a Queenstown must-see destination.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The central Queenstown pickup location is the Marmolada Cafe on Camp Street. We pick up from a range of different accommodations and bus stops. If we do not pick up directly at your hotel, we will advise the closest pick-up location. After you book you will receive a message from our team to reconfirm your pick-up location and time. Please be at your pick-up location 10 minutes prior to the departure time provided. Your guides will wait up to 5 minutes after the time, and those that are late and miss their departure will not be entitled to a refund.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years. We recommend that you bring your passport or NZ drivers license with you.
Reviews(688)
We felt so lucky we got Shanay as our tour guide , she was so lovely and knowledgeable regarding the area /wineries and personnel at each winery. A great day well spent, thank you !!
Kia ora, Thank you for your wonderful review! We're delighted to hear you had such a great day exploring Central Otago's wineries with Shanay. She'll be so pleased to know her local knowledge and warm approach helped make the experience so memorable. We truly appreciate your recommendation and hope to welcome you back for another wine adventure soon!
The wineries were excellent. We enjoyed ourselves tremendously. Thanks to our tour guide/driver Katy we had a great time. She was very considerate of our needs (it was so cold even with the alcohol). We met new friends and laugh a lot. It was a great way to start our stay in Queenstown. Thanks Katy!
Thank you for your wonderful review, Helen! We're delighted to hear you had such a great time on our Premium Wine Tour and that it was such a memorable start to your stay in Queenstown. Katy will be so pleased to hear your kind words. She always goes the extra mile to make sure everyone is comfortable, even on those chilly Central Otago days! It's also fantastic to hear you enjoyed the wineries, shared plenty of laughs, and even made new friends along the way. Thank you for choosing Altitude Tours. We hope to see you again on your next visit to Queenstown!
Katy our tour guide was fabulous. The wineries we visited were superb, all small owned wineries. Favourite stop was Kinross Wines.
Thank you for your lovely review! We're so pleased you had a fantastic day exploring Central Otago with Katy. We'll be sure to pass on your kind words to her. It's great to hear you enjoyed visiting our selection of boutique wineries, and that Kinross was your favourite stop. Thank you for choosing Altitude Tours, and we hope to welcome you back for another wine adventure soon!
Sinchan was an amazing tour guide
Thank you for your review! We're so pleased to hear you had a great experience and that Sinchan was such an amazing tour guide. He is passionate about sharing the region with our guests, and we're sure he will appreciate your kind words. We hope to welcome you on another adventure with us soon!
Excellent trip made most enjoyable by host Amy
Thanks so much for the lovely review! 🍷 We're delighted you had such an enjoyable day. Amy will be thrilled to hear she helped make the experience so memorable. Hope to see you back again for another wine adventure soon! 😊
This was a great way to spend the day with friends, Do our host was amazing, and a way to meet new people. The food and wine were fabulous, would recommend to all.
Thanks so much for the lovely review! 🍷 We're thrilled you had such a fun day with friends and enjoyed meeting new people along the way. Do will love the shoutout! We're glad the food and wine hit the mark. Thanks for the recommendation, and we hope to see you again soon 😊
Awesome tour with Caleb our guide. We had a great time and as well as great wine and food, we had lots of fun!! Highly recommend AAA+++
We're delighted to hear you had such a great time with Caleb. Great wine, delicious food, and plenty of fun is exactly what we aim for! We'll be sure to pass your kind words on to Caleb. Thank you for the recommendation, and we hope to see you again for another unforgettable experience soon!
Such fun, Caleb did such a great job to introduce everyone and make sure everyone had such fun, thank you!
Thanks so much for the lovely review! 😊 We're thrilled you had such a fun day. Caleb has a great knack for bringing people together and creating a fantastic atmosphere. Thanks for joining us, and we hope to see you back again soon! 🍷
The tour company on enquiry and booking confirmed we would be going to Chard Farm, that is 6 of the people booking. Upon collection there were two additional people taking the group to 8. Shortly after collection we were advised by the guided that she had been told that morning we were not going to Chard Farm, she didn’t exactly know why. It thought it was due to an event at the winery. As would image the 6 of us were annoyed as we would have likely gone an alternative day. When we visited the winery two days later at an additional cost we were advised the tour operator had mislead us as we were informed they well know Chard Farm only do tasting groups of no greater than 6.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and I’m sorry that you had a bad experience. From what you’ve described, this doesn’t sound like one of our tours, as we do not visit Chard Farm on any of our daily tours. Because of that, we’d appreciate the opportunity to look into this further and better understand what may have happened. Please feel free to reach out to us at info@altitudetours.co.nz with your booking details, including the date of travel, and we’ll be happy to investigate further.
Ana drove us around Central Otago for a beautiful day of delicious wine drinking. The van was lovely, the driving sensational and the wine was out of this world.
Thank you so much for the lovely review! It was such a pleasure showing you around Central Otago. I’m thrilled you enjoyed the wines, the comfort of the van, and the day overall. Hope to welcome you back for another adventure soon! 🍷
