Some months ago, we asked Appellation Central Wine Tours to organise some winery visits for a group of 19 wine enthusiasts from Kelman Vineyards in the Hunter Valley NSW. A few phone calls & emails later, Phil Green, Director had arranged 2 marvellous days of wine experiences, tasting & vineyard visits.We visited 9 wineries - Peregrine, Aurum, Northburn Station and... More

Had a fabulous afternoon. Great vineyards, breath taking scenery & scrupulous lunch. Tour guide kirsty was wonderful so much knowledge & such a lovely person. Just need to sleep on the couch now. More

I did the gourmet tour with two couples from Australia. Our guide Paul was great. I was picked up from the hotel at 9:30am. We stopped at Gibbston Valley first and did a tour of the vineyard with Christine and she provided some wine making 101. Next we did wine tasting in their cave. Next stop was Carrick for some... More

We were pleasantly surprised when our tour guide was the same tour guide from our Mitre Peak Milford Sound Tour. Iain entertained us with Milford Sound info and fun fact about New Zealand during our 5 hour bus ride to Milford Sound, and then 2 days later he shared the same passion and knowledge during our wine tour about New... More

We are not the usual sort to go on a wine tour, that said we really enjoyed the afternoon with Kirsty and two other couples we visited four vineyards and had a nice lunch. Knowdgeable host who was obviously known and respected by the staff at the wineries we visited. Highlight of the trip was a visit to Amistead and... More

We enjoyed our semi-private trip (just one other couple) thru New Zealand's wine country. We enjoyed our guide, Iain immensely. He was not only knowledgeable about the wineries and their respective wines, he was a fountain of information on the area, the people, and the history. We enjoyed the leisure pace as opposed to other tours whee you are constantly... More

This was so, so fun! e did the full day tour. We are here on our honeymoon and we don't know a ton about wine. Our very small group of five had varying knowledge levels. Our guide, Keren, made sure to address all of the levels and gave us a bunch of colorful local history stories as we drove to... More

Our tour guide and driver Keren was awesome. She probably could have made anything interesting! That said our first stop was Peregrine and the team there were knowledgeable, funny and attentive. I'm not a wine buff but out of the aproximately 24 wines we tasted across the 4 estates there wasn't much I didn't want to drink! The lunch at... More

Had a great tour of one of NZ's best wine regions with our guide Liz. The lunch was delicious and sophisticated, the scenery beautiful and the information about the area interesting. Highly recommended. (BTW Tripadvisor, it's Appellation Central Otago not Appellation Central). More