Waipara Wine Experience for 2 or more, inc tastings and lunch
Description
This is the best wine tour in Christchurch/Canterbury. You will visit some of the best wineries in North Canterbury on the all-inclusive Waipara Wine Experience wine tour with Giles Tours. This tour includes tutored tastings at 3 boutique wineries and a delicious winery platter lunch. Departing Christchurch at 10.30am, you’ll taste a quality selection of wines in the up-and-coming Waipara wine region, including stops at Pegasus Bay, Torlesse Winery and Terrace Edge/Georges Road wineries. Learn from your knowledgeable guide about Waipara’s unique micro-climate as you taste a range of world class red and white wines. This is a shared tour but we only need a minimum of 2 people to run the tour with a maximum of 6 per tour. For private tours or a personal guided tour visit the operators website.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Wine tastings and garden tour
Wine tasting and winery platter lunch - and tour of vineyard (time permitting)
Truly a boutique winery run by wine-maker owner Kirk Bray and his wife Alison. Together they produce some of the most stunning wines in the area in a winery with some of the best views anywhere.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We will pick you up from any central Christchurch Hotel or accommodation - instructions on how to arrange this will be on your ticket. There is a small additional fee for pick ups at the port of Lyttelton.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This is an an over 18 only tour.
Reviews(159)
Great day out with Paul, Very knowledgable and a nice mixture of commentary and comfortable silence. Lovely vineyards and lunch included with tastings and great number of tastings available.
Thank you for your kind words Alessandro, I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. All the best.
Fantastic day with a fabulous, friendly, knowledgeable host and lots of really good wine.
Thank you, Lisa. I’m delighted you had such a fantastic day. Great wine, great company, and a beautiful region always make for a memorable tour.
Absolutely fantastic. Paul our host was brilliant. Really knowledgeable about the area, the wines and definitely helped us understand how different varieties and techniques flow through to the tastebuds.
Thank you Paul, much appreciated.
What a fantastic experience with Giles on this tour. What he doesn't know about wines probably isn't worth knowing! We visited some fantastic wineries, and it was great seeing the vines just about to be harvested. Giles' was brilliant in adding so much to the information being shared from the winery staff. The wines were brilliant, and a lovely platter lunch was included. What a fantastic day, comfortable, interesting, delicious and well-hosted by Giles.
We had the fortune to be blessed with Giles. Giles has extensive knowledge of wine & the region & truly cared about his guests.
Thank you Helen
Fantastic day - visited 3 wineries and the tour included a nice lunch. Giles is a safe driver and more knowledgeable than most of the windery staff that we spoke with! Highly recommended.
My pleasure Philip, thank you
Had a lovely day visiting three wineries in the Waipara Wine region. Giles was very friendly and had a thorough knowledge of wine. Highly recommend this tour.
Thank you Dolores, my absolute pleasure.
We went with Giles and one other couple who we met at the starting point. Giles was so informative, and knowledgeable about wine and the local wineries - it was a pleasure to learn more from him. We visited 3 wineries, and one of them provided lunch as well. Each one had a different type of wine, and there was a lot of wine tasted! We were so impressed, and we were lucky that we got on so well with the other couple - overall this was a great trip. Sadly Giles tells us that he is going to retire in April, so if you want the same wonderful day, you need to book soon - we highly recommend this tour.
My pleasure Philip, thank you.
Giles picked us up, and we join a few other people and headed up to waipara. The van was comfortable and Giles provided interesting facts and info along the way. Our first stop was Pegasus Bay, then on to two other smaller wineries. There was plentiful wine tasting at all stops. I thought the lunch was ok, but not fabulous. Would recommend Giles and his tour.
Thanks M, This is a shared tour and the lunch is pitched accordingly - anyone looking for a fabulous lunch should ask me about upgrading to a private tour. Glad you had a lovely day anyway.
Three wonderful & different wineries with a lunch at one of them makes for a lovely day. Giles was very impressive with his knowledge of wine.
Thank you Anne, my pleasure.
