Marlborough wine tasting tour: family wineries & Sauvignon Blanc

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Duration6h

GroupUp to 13

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Taste across multiple wineries and learn what makes each vineyard's wine distinct

A six-hour wine tasting tour of Marlborough's wine region that takes you to a carefully selected mix of family-owned wineries and boutique vineyards, with all standard cellar door tasting fees included and hotel pickup from your accommodation. You'll taste Marlborough's world-famous Sauvignon Blanc alongside Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Riesling, and Pinot Noir, then relax at a vineyard restaurant where food and wine pair together. The tour is designed for quality over quantity, with time to absorb the stories behind each winery and insights into how the wines are made.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Marlborough wine region

Visit pioneering family-owned wineries
Taste world-famous Sauvignon Blanc
Sample various wine varietals
Learn about vineyard management
Enjoy lunch at vineyard restaurant

The Experience

If you've landed in Marlborough with a free afternoon or you're new to the region's wines, this tour handles the logistics so you can focus on tasting. A guide picks you up from your accommodation and drives you to a selection of wineries chosen for their approach rather than their size—pioneering family operations and smaller cellar doors where you'll spend real time with the wines instead of rushing through. All standard tasting fees at each stop are covered, so you're not paying at the door.

The tastings move beyond a simple pour-and-move-on experience. You'll encounter current vintages, single-block selections, reserve wines, and late-harvest varietals, all anchored by Marlborough's signature Sauvignon Blanc but ranging across other grapes the region grows well. Between stops, the guide shares how vineyards manage their land and what happens in the cellar—details that change how you taste the next glass. The pace is built to let the wines and the stories land, not to hit a quota of stops.

Midway through the day, you'll settle at a vineyard restaurant where the kitchen and the cellar work together. Lunch and any additional drinks beyond your tastings are on your own bill, but the setting and the pairing idea are part of the experience. By the end of six hours, you're back at your accommodation with a sense of how Marlborough's wines are made and why they taste the way they do.

What’s included

All standard cellar door tasting fees at each winery.
pickup and drop-off from your accommodation.
a guide who shares insights into vineyard management and winemaking.
time at a vineyard restaurant to relax and pair food with wine.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Discovery Wine Tours - Marlborough, Blenheim, Havelock, Picton, Renwick

Is this one for you?Choose this tour if you prefer a guided route through multiple wineries in one day rather than self-driving, so you can taste continuously and absorb the winemaking stories without managing logistics.