Waiheke Island wine tour: 4 vineyards with local guide

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Duration5h

GroupUp to 35

LanguagesEN

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Your guide lives on Waiheke and knows every winemaker you'll meet.

A wine tour of Waiheke Island with four vineyard tastings, a local guide, and transport from Auckland. You start at Cable Bay Vineyards overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, break for lunch at Batch Winery at the island's highest point, taste at Stonyridge Vineyard among olive groves, and finish at Mudbrick Vineyard with views across the gulf. The guide is a resident who knows the winemakers and the stories behind them.

Step-by-step itinerary

Waiheke Island vineyard tour and tastings

Visit Cable Bay Vineyards for wine tasting
Lunch at Batch Winery with panoramic views
Wine tasting at Stonyridge Vineyard
Final wine tasting at Mudbrick Vineyard
Return to ferry or stay on island

The Experience

The day starts at Cable Bay Vineyards, where you taste wines with views across the Hauraki Gulf toward Auckland and the Coromandel. From there the tour moves to Batch Winery, the highest point on the island, where you sit down for lunch on a sun-soaked terrace or in the restaurant — the menu is à la carte and lunch is at your own cost. The views stretch out over the water in every direction, and you'll meet the other people on the tour over a glass of something from Batch's own collection.

After lunch comes Stonyridge Vineyard, surrounded by olive groves and Tuscan-inspired gardens, where you taste handcrafted wines in a relaxed setting. The final stop is Mudbrick Vineyard, the most iconic on the island, with a glass raised over the Hauraki Gulf as the grand finale. You can stay on at Mudbrick if you want — the bus leaves for the ferry at 3:40pm, ferries run until midnight, and taxis or a 15-minute walk get you to the terminal if you decide to keep exploring the island instead.

Transport is included in a comfortable bus (or double-decker depending on the season and group size), along with all four wine tastings and a local guide who actually lives here. In the off-season the tour runs in a minivan. The whole day takes about five hours, and you'll need to arrange your own ferry tickets to and from Waiheke Island separately.

What’s included

Comfortable transport in a bus or minivan depending on the season.
wine tastings at four vineyards.
a local guide who lives on Waiheke Island.
GST and fuel surcharge.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Waiheke Wine Tours Ltd

Is this one for you?Book this tour if you want to taste wines without arranging the stops and timing yourself — the local guide knows the winemakers and the best table at each vineyard, and the transport holds the whole day together around the ferry schedule.