Great Tastes of Matakana Full Day Tour

Experience the food, wine and arts of Matakana Coast where your informed and entertaining guides make it an exhilarating 'assault on the senses' day out.

Leave the bustle of the city and relax on the one hour drive north through the rolling green hills and past beautiful coastline before arriving at The Honey Centre. Here you find New Zealand's largest display of live bees and a huge range of honeys available for tasting as well as honey mead and fruit-wine. Then we visit Ransom Wines and taste their award-winning wines.

Next we visit Brick Bay Wines for a wine-tasting and art extraveganza. Sensitively sited along an easy walking trail, around 45 carefully chosen sculptures are given room to breathe in a stimulating interaction between the natural environment and the artistic impulse.

On your return to Brick Bay’s Glass House you will sample their hand crafted wines followed by a delicious platter lunch made from many locally-sourced ingredients as you reflect on your experience of ‘art and wine entwined’ at Brick Bay.

You then visit a third local vineyard before the day is rounded off with a stop at Chocolate Brown, where they hand-make outrageously fine chocolates.