Gourmet Food and
Wine Tours
Pre-booking is essential
Personally escorted by award-winning
food and travel writer Mavis Airey
• "Thank you
for your wonderful hospitality. We all had a marvellous
day" M Trembath, Brisbane
• "Expert local
knowledge ... food writer Mavis Airey conducts excellent
tours" Australian Gourmet Traveller
• "You'll be
filled with Canterbury's best" NZ Home & Entertaining
• "Divine tours"
A Stover, Washington DC
• "The most
fabulous day of our trip" R Forstadt, New York
• "A tour of
taste delights" Christchurch Star
Visit Canterbury’s finest wine and
food producers. Watch the makers at work, taste their products,
take some home.
Sample Farmhouse cheese, award-winning
wine, salmon, artisan breads, eel, ostrich, olive products,
honey, cider, mead, tree-ripened fruit, handmade chocolates...
Discover Canterbury’s distinctive
regions: Waipara, Ellesmere, West Melton, Christchurch,
Akaroa and Banks Peninsula.
Full-day
and half-day tours for groups of 2-6 people
• All-inclusive cost covers luxury transport,
generous tastings, country teas, vineyard lunch with
wine on full-day tours (half-day tours can also be extended
to include lunch at additional cost). Price is $140
(half day) to $240 (full day) per person for an exclusive
tour for 2 people and reduces to $110 (half day) to
$190 per person for groups of 4-6. We can make the booking
on your behalf but payment is to be made directly to
Mavis
• Itineraries can also be tailor-made to
suit special interests and the time available. |
SUGGESTED HALF-DAY TOURS (normally 9am-1pm
or 1.30pm-5.30pm)
West Melton: Riches of an old Riverbed
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection
from:
• Isaac Salmon Farm • The
Kitchen Garden gourmet vegetables • country
tea at Barnscote Farmyard • A Cracker of
a Nut walnut grove and oil press • Lavender
Downs national lavender collection• Hazelz
hazelnuts • Langdale Vineyard Restaurant
• Canterbury Vineyards • Sandihurst
Wines • Tresillian Wines • Melton
Estate • Hinton's Wines
Christchurch: City and plains
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection
from:
• De Spa Chocolatier • Isaac
Salmon Farm • Victorian afternoon tea at
Berryfields • St Helena Wine Estate •
Canterbury Cheesemongers • Dux de Lux
microbrewery • Wigram microbrewery •
Rossendale wines and beef • Raspberry
Cafe at Otahuna Berries • Hinton's Wines
• The Packingshed • Riccarton
House • Canterbury Farmers Market (Saturdays)
• Coppersfolly wasabi • Cracroft
Chase Wines • Vivace coffee
SUGGESTED FULL-DAY TOURS (normally 9.30am-5.30pm)
Waipara: New Zealand’s hottest wine region
(literally!)
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection
from:
• Bredon Downs Ostrich Farm • Nor’Wester
Café • Brew Moon • Pukeko
Junction • Athena Olive Grove and oil press
• Karikaas Cheese • Havill’s
Mazer Mead • deer farm •
Saturday farmers market • Waipara vineyards
such as Waipara Springs, Torlesse, Fiddlers Green, Pegasus
Bay, The Mud House, Waipara Downs, Mountford, Daniel Schuster,
Muddy Water.
Ellesmere: Harvest of lake and fertile plains
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection
from:
• Aquahaven eel and salmon • Airborne
single-flower honeys • Raspberry Cafe at
Otahuna Berries • Rossendale wines and beef
• Canterbury Vineyards • Aroha
elderflower cordial • Hazelz hazelnuts •
Gruff Junction goat cheese • Camla
Farm apple juice and cider • Dunsandel Store
• Coppersfolly wasabi
Akaroa: A touch of France on Banks Peninsula
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection
from:
• Barrys Bay Cheese • Rossendale
wines and beef • country tea at Little River
Store • Akaroa • French
Farm Vineyard • Treecrop Farm •
Raspberry Cafe at Otahuna Berries •
The Olive Grove • Bentwood Wines •
Kaituna Valley Wines • Blue Duck Cafe
• The Packingshed • Cracroft
Chase Wines • lunch at The Gables country
house
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| To contact
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