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Create your own dream tour! From adventure to luxury and everything in between.
We love to create customised and bespoke wine tours that ensure groups get the most out of their visit to Queenstown. Custom Wine Tours might include an occasion such as a birthday,a family reunion, a hen’s party or post-wedding celebration.
You might have a few ideas of things you would like to incorporate, or alternatively, if you are looking for something unique and extraordinary, we have a selection of ideas we can suggest so you find what you are looking for! Be sure to check out our set itineraries on our Private Wine Tours page as well.
Custom Wine Tours can be created for any group size (2 – 60+) and for any length of time. If you are just looking for return transfers to a particular vineyard, or you are looking for a full day out with a variety of both vineyard stops, scenic stops or even incorporating other activities, let us design your perfect itinerary to suit your time and budget requirements.
We have access to many special rates from other local operators that we can incorporate into the tour and guarantee you will be getting the best possible deal.
We offer a comprehensive selection of packages to cater for a wide range of requirements. They vary considerably from a short tour out to the local vineyards near to Queenstown, to quite extensive and varied day out incorporating activities from jet boating, gold panning to scenic helicopter flights.
We also have a wide variety of vehicles from luxury sedans through to large buses should you have a large group to cater for. Depending on the group size, we may be able to arrange an itinerary where you can visit all of the vineyards together, or split the groups to visit different vineyards and meet together for lunch, and then swap over. Whatever you decide, we will create an itinerary that will be sure to impress.
We can customise a tour to suit your needs, time available, and budget. Here are a few examples of what we can put together for you:
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Stephanie C14 May 2024Nice wine and food tour We had Allan as a driver today. Great day on the road and amongst the vines. That will have to do for my one hundred words, yeh.VerifiedAnonymous85530 April 2024Everything as advertised & more! Truly a gourmet event... I have been to many wine tastings being from California and I felt the tour company ensured we had a unique experience at each location, thank you. I am also fussy about my food and was delighted by the lunch...wow! That day we had goat meatballs on polenta, venison with a wine sauce, skin on salamon, pork and all sorts of veggies along with a flight of wines matched to the food. Our host was gracious and gave us 15 minutes to scoot around Arrowtown very quickly. Overall, I was quite pleased with this experience and recommend it amongst the many choices.VerifiedPENNY M29 April 2024Great day out Phil was fabulous he showed us some fabulous locations and we were very lucky that is was a stunning day. Great insider tips and we had a fantastic dayVerifiedCruiser2303524465328 April 2024Awesome Wine Tour Awesome tour! I went on the tour solo and had an amazing time. The wine was wonderful, food was delicious, and ride was great with the knowledgeable guide. He shared a lot of his knowledge on the areaâs history and the wineries which kept the rides between wineries interesting. The tastings at each winery were also great with lovely staff. Highly recommend this wine tour! The food was a highlight as well, so good and awesome presentation.VerifiedElyse T14 April 2024Wine and Smoked Fare This was one of the most interesting of the several wine tours we took in New Zealand. The wine was excellent and the vintners interesting, but the star of the tour was lunch at the Stoakery Restaurant: meats and vegetables cooked in repurposed wine barrels served with a selection of Wild Earth wines. A unique and very tasty experience.VerifiedPatti J8 April 2024Helpful guide and good variation in wineries Our guide, Al, was very knowledgeable of the area and gave us wonderful insight about the vineyards we were visiting. Each of the wineries treated us with their best pours and helpful tasting notes. Lunch was a real treat, we asked for the vegetarian option and it was one for the best plates we had in NZ. Al also made sure everything operated well, even helping out at the meal and cheese tasting. I highly recommend this company for a tour.VerifiedWarwick M4 April 2024Great experience. This trip was a great experience. We had Paul as our tour guide and he was very knowledgeable, welcoming and ensured we had a great time. The wineries were lovely and the food was great. Would highly recommend.VerifiedTodd F4 April 2024Amazing Whiskey and Wine tasting luxury tour - one not to miss My wife bought for me a Whiskey and Wine Tasting luxury tour. We were picked up from our hotel by John, who was wonderfully engaging and knowledgeable about the area we were travelling through. We went to the Cardrona Distillery for a personal tour of the distillation process and tasting afterwards, which was wonderfully delivered by the team at Cardrona. We then went to Kinross Vineyard's Celler Door which was representing 5 different vineyards followed by a food platter - all was amazing and well delivered by the local teams. Would highly recommend this tour.VerifiedCindy C30 March 2024One of the best wine tours I've been on around the world Outstanding food and wine tour with an amazingly interesting group of people and a extremely knowledgeable guide. The sommelier were fantastic too. This region is known to produce some of the best Pinot Noir in the world. I learned sooooo much ... and tasted MANY wines...in fact it was one of the most generous wine tours in terms of how many wines we tasted. We visited Gibbston Valley Winery, Akarua winery, Misha's Vineyard (this where we had the main food tasting which was seriously spectacular... my favorite food thus far on our trip), and Mt. Rosa Wines. A couple of my favorites from rhe day were the 2023 Pinot Rouge by Akarua, 2022 China Terrace by Gibbston.VerifiedAlice K21 March 2024Tasteful and fun day Tasteful and fun day visiting 4 smaller wineries, including having a very tasteful lunch at one of them. Traveling together with a small group of 10 people from several different countries was great.
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