Queenstown Wine Tours New Zealand

Gibbston Valley

The Queenstown Wine Trail offers a fun, personalised and friendly sightseeing wine tour of vineyards and wineries in New Zealand’s foremost wine regions – Queenstown and Central Otago.

We offer daily wine tours and private tours exploring the fast growing wine area of Gibbston Valley, and selected Central Otago wineries around Bannockburn.

We keep our wine tours small and travelling time to a minimum so guests can taste a variety of wines while relaxing at award winning wineries. In the Queenstown region, the wineries we may visit include Gibbston Valley Winery, Amisfield Cellars at Lake Hayes, Peregrine Winery, Waitiri Creek Wines, Chard Farm, Wine House & Kitchen.

Travelling further into the Central Otago region on our Private Bannockburn Tour, we stop at the unique ‘Big Picture’ experience where you can explore the aroma room and enjoy a virtual wine flight. Wineries we may visit include Carrick, Mt Difficulty, Akarua, Olssen’s, Wooing Tree, Aurum, Rockburn and Central Otago Wine Company Felton Road.

Gibbston Valley Wines released the region’s first commercial wine vintage in 1987. Since then the region and its several vineyards have become famous for producing premium wines, particularly pinot noir.

Winemaking at 45 south is an adventurous business. The vineyards are at high altitude and subject to cold winters, hot dry summers, and a huge night to day temperature range. Such adversity has led to pioneering winemaking, consistently superb wines, worldwide recognition and a plethora of international awards.

Each winery in Queenstown and Central Otago is a unique reflection of the pioneering spirit and passion for wine common to the local winemakers and viticulturalists.

The Central Otago wine region has become especially well-known for its award winning Pinot Noir. Other locally produced varieties include Riesling, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Methode Traditional.