Taste Canterbury
Personalised food and wine tours of New Zealand's gourmet province
Gourmet Food and Wine Tours
Personally escorted by award-winning food and travel writer Mavis Airey
VISIT Canterbury's finest wine and food producers.
Watch the makers at work, taste their products, take some home.
SAMPLE Farmhouse cheeses, award-winning wine, olive products, nut products, salmon, ostrich,
unique New Zealand honeys, tree-ripened fruit, boutique beers, handmade chocolates ...
DISCOVER Canterbury's distinctive regions:
Waipara, Ellesmere, West Melton, Christchurch, Akaroa and Banks Peninsula.
"Expert local knowledge ... food writer Mavis Airey conducts excellent tours" Australian Gourmet Traveller "The most fabulous day of our trip" R Forstadt, New York "Thank you for your wonderful hospitality. We all had a marvellous day" M Trembath, Brisbane "You'll be filled with Canterbury's best" NZ Home & Entertaining "A tour of taste delights" Christchurch Star
"Expert local knowledge ... food writer Mavis Airey conducts excellent tours" Australian Gourmet Traveller
"The most fabulous day of our trip" R Forstadt, New York
"Thank you for your wonderful hospitality. We all had a marvellous day" M Trembath, Brisbane
"You'll be filled with Canterbury's best" NZ Home & Entertaining
"A tour of taste delights" Christchurch Star
Half-day tours (9am-1pm or 1.30-5.30pm)
Itineraries can also be tailor-made to suit special interests and the time available.
West Melton: Riches of an Old Riverbed
Subject to availability, visits may include a selection from:
Hazels hazelnuts : The Kitchen Garden gourmet vegetables : Lassad saffron and chestnuts : A Cracker of a Nut walnut grove and oil press : Delphi Lavender : Stromboli Olives : Sandihurst Wines : Melton Estate : Langdale Vineyard Restaurant : Tresillian Wines
Christchurch: City and Plains
De Spa Chocolatier : Victorian tea at Berryfields : Hintons Wines : Vivace coffee : Holy Smoke smokehouse : Wigram microbrewery : Dux de Lux microbrewery : Rossendale wines and beef : Raspberry Café : Mona Vale : Canterbury Cheesemongers : Coppersfolly wasabi : Riccarton House : Cracroft Chase vineyard : Three Boys microbrewery
Exclusive tours for 2-6 people (larger groups by arrangement). Advance booking essential. Minimum 48 hours' notice.All-inclusive cost covers central city pick-up and drop-off, luxury transport, all tours and tastings, and morning or afternoon tea. Price range $110-$150 p/p, reduced for larger numbers. Half-day tours can be extended to include lunch at additional cost.
Full-day tours (9.30am-5.30pm)
Itineraries can be tailor-made to suit special interests and the time available.
Waipara: New Zealand's hottest wine region (literally!)
Bredon Downs Ostrich Farm : NorWester Café : Athena Olive Grove & oil press : Karikaas Cheese : Havills Mazer Mead : Gracebrook orchard & honey : Waipara vineyards such as Waipara Springs,Torlesse, Pegasus Bay, Muddy Water, Mud House, Fiddlers Green, Mountford, Greystone
Ellesmere: Harvest of lake and fertile plains
Aroha elderflower cordial ; Airborne single-flower honeys ; Raspberry Café at Otahuna Berries : Rossendale wines and beef : Hazelz hazelnuts : Lone Goat Vineyard : Coppersfolly wasabi : Gruff Junction goats cheese : Camla Farm apple juice & cider : Dunsandel country store
Akaroa: A touch of France on Banks Peninsula
Barrys Bay Cheese : Rossendale wines & beef : country tea at Little River Store : The Olive Grove : Kaituna Valley Wines : French Farm Vineyard : Treecrop Farm : lunch at The Gables country house : Raspberry Café at Otahuna Berries : The Packingshed : Cracroft Chase Vineyard : Harbour 71
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Exclusive tours for 2-6 people (larger groups by arrangement). All-inclusive cost covers central city pick-up & drop-off, luxury transport, all tours & tastings, refreshments & lunch. Price range $210-$250 p/p, reduced for larger numbers.
Bookings
Exclusive full-day tour for 2 people
Choose from:
Exclusive half-day tour for 2 people email
West Melton: Riches of an old riverbed
Christchurch: City and plains
Extended half-day tour with lunch
For further information, larger groups or tailor-made itineraries
email to discuss the tour you want.
or email
Web: www.goodthings.co.nz
Email: mavis.airey_xtra.co.nz
Tel: +64 3 326 6753
Mob: 0275 293 631
Fax: +64 3 326 7878
3 Scarborough Road
Christchurch 8081
New Zealand
Minimum 48 hours' notice required. All cancellations attract a 10% service fee. Cancellations made less than 7 days before the tour attract a 50% cancellation fee. Cancellations within 48 hours of the tour require full payment of the fee.
