Martinborough Wine Tours

27/08/2025

In the Wairarapa we not only produce great wine, we also have some of the best bookshops in NZ: Hedley’s in Masterton, Almo’s in Carterton, Mrs Blackwell’s in Greytown, and a whole village of bookshops in Featherston.

But the best one is in Martinborough.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-08-2025/a-surprisingly-intimate-experience-brenda-channers-bookseller-confessional?fbclid=IwY2xjawMbvfVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpoFgzK2sjwCLj6mDa1AcRcvSQz6qvYaixEStUDexBhw1Ccp0Td0CycT4xpq_aem_4ib2KgBZuBKOxoAEvXspZA

'Customers offer you pieces of themselves in return for a story.'

04/08/2025

🍷 Discover the best of the Wairarapa with Martinborough Wine Tours!
From award-winning vineyards to coastal gems, enjoy half or full-day tours (lunch included on full day), or try our unforgettable Pinot to Palliser experience.

✨ Private tours available.
📍 Book now: martinboroughwinetours.co.nz

02/07/2025

Today’s guests got to learn about pruning with John Douglas from Te Hera Estate.

16/05/2025

Elizabeth, one of Trinity's guests today, plunging the merlot ferment at Tiwaiwaka Wines.

02/04/2025

Trinity's guests this week did a pinot noir barrel tasting at Tiwaiwaka Wines and also got to see the chardonnay grapes picked that day being pressed, and even got to taste the chardonnay juice.

25/02/2025

When Trinity took guests to Escarpment Winery in Te Muna valley for a tasting this week they saw the barrels that had been been cleaned and readied for the 2025 harvest.
Martinborough Wine Tours - More than just a taste.

25/01/2025

Wine buffs! John Penney has a few spaces left on a workshop he’s running just south of Martinborough on Saturday 15 February. It will be 3 hours long and costs $90pp.

The workshop is in two parts, the first will involve a presentation working through a structured approach to understanding wine tastings, the second half will involve practising skills blind tasting common NZ wine varieties.

Get in before it’s closed off on 8 February.

You can contact John on 0211348827

17/01/2025

A beautiful morning, the weather is on the improve as the six sites involved in Toast do their setting up for Sunday.

Puruatanga Rd much quieter than it will be on Sunday.

And the first sign of veraison, some pinot noir grapes at Schubert starting to change colour.

30/12/2024

After tasting Te Kairanga and Martinborough Vineyard wines and Lighthouse gin, Katrina took our group down to the TK barrel hall beneath The Runholder.

Martinborough Wine Tours - "More than just a taste"

19/12/2024

The 2025 Wairarapa Visitor Guide is now available.

17/12/2024

Sometimes in this high speed, fibre, Starlink, Internet, X, website, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook world, the old fashioned ways are still best.

05/12/2024

On Thursday Trinity and Matthew hosted about 50 English cricket supporters, groups from Gullivers Travel and Howzat. They'd left an overcast capital city expecting a cool day in Martinborough. Wrong! It was 28 degrees as they wandered around the vines and tasted wine in the sheltered garden area at Tiwaiwaka with Morton and Elise, and enoyed the wine and the information with Andy and team in the very flash tasting room at Palliser Estate. In between they were very well looked after by Erin and her great crew at The Runholder where they enjoyed tasting the wines of Martinborough Vineyard and Te Kairanga, Lighthouse gin and a lamb ribs and salmon lunch in the restaurant.