Wine Tours by Bike and Coach

An excellent way of touring New Zealand is by joining a wine tour. You get to taste the wonderful red wines and white wines and your guide will make sure that you get to see all the places without any mishap. Most wine tours are conducted through a coach full of people and this can sometimes make the experience of a wine tour a little drab and boring. Here are some of the ways to get a different experience of a wine tour.

Fine Wine Tours – A guide on a wine tour will have some knowledge about wine but all the finer points can only be covered by a professional. People who are taking a wine tour will just be dropped until the door of the wine cellar. But a Fine wine your is a totally different experience. This is an Auckland based company and Phil Parker who is a wine writer conducts all the tours. He has a lot of information on wines and he is eager to share to with you. Only a maximum of ten persons will be taken on a tour so that he can take personal care of every person. People get to see the gold medal wineries in Auckland, which include Kumea River, Coopers creek, Matua, Matakana estates, Soljans and many more like this. Complimentary cheese is made available along with your wine and tasting notes will help you to understand things better. These tours are a different experience and they cost $139 per head.

Pacific cycle tours – This tour will help you to taste the Marlborough wine, which is so famous, and you can also get some exercise this way. You also get a good view of the scenic beauty when you are riding your bike and this is also friendlier to the environment. You can cycle from 20-30 km in a day and this does not need much effort. Your bags as well as the wine, which you have bought, will be transported along wherever you go. These tours are a little more expensive since they cost $1850 per head. This includes accommodation for four nights along with breakfast, helmets and bikes.

Grape escape – This Company offers wine tourists a taste of New Zealand, which they will not forget in a long time. There are tours for the casual drinkers as well as wine enthusiast. The duration of these excursions vary from one day to twelve days. The Heli wine and dine tour is one such tour. You get a thirty-minute helicopter ride where you can see the Hawke’s bay region. You can see the Te Mata peak and also got to the Gimblett Gravels wine district. The tour ends at the Sileni Estate where you get a two-course meal with wines. You get to visit four wineries and taste the wine with cheese. Tours offered by this company start at $60. The Heli tours start at $395.