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Appellation Central Wine Tours

52 Adamson Drive | RD1, Queenstown 9248, New Zealand
6434420246
Ranked #9 of 100 tours in Queenstown
5.0 of 5 stars 46 Reviews
Type: Tours
Owner description: Join award this award winning New Zealand Wine Tour Company and discover the wines, history and sights of Central Otago, New Zealand’s premier cool...... more » Owner description: Join award this award winning New Zealand Wine Tour Company and discover the wines, history and sights of Central Otago, New Zealand’s premier cool climate wine region.Appellation Central’s small group wine tours depart daily from Queenstown. An absolute maximum of 11 adults per tour and experienced guides ensure a fun day out in wine country. You will learn about wine appreciation, taste some of the region's great wines, enjoy a delightful gourmet platter lunch and visit the historic town of Old Cromwell. In 2011 Appellation Central Wine Tours won the Great Wine Capitals national award for Wine Tourism Services and in 2012 won the International Best of Wine Tourism award for Wine Tourism Services. « less
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Lisaroos14
Cape Town Central, South Africa
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9 reviews
4 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed January 26, 2012
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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

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shenatoronto
Toronto, Canada
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22 reviews
11 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed January 13, 2012
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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

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Ian_Stanworth
Manchester
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81 reviews
41 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed January 7, 2012

Took the half day Boutique tour with 4 excellent and varied wineries with a superb lunch at one of them. Very relaxed and enjoyable. Good choice of wineries and a friendly and knowledgable guide. Highly recommended More

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Leelee888
regina
Senior Reviewer
6 reviews
3 of 5 stars Reviewed December 29, 2011

Guide was knowledgeable and the four vineyards had plenty of wine to sample. The lunch was ok but the people I was with were crass and not good lunch companions. Overall the tour was good but in the future I will visit the vineyards myself as many do free tastings. More

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kiwisine, Owner at Appellation Central Wine Tours, responded to this review
December 30, 2011

Hello Leelee888, Thank you for taking the time to pass on your comments. We pride ourselves on not only the high quality of the vineyards we select each day, our guides knowledge but also the ability to bring groups together. Having personally guided many tours myself I can assure you it is extremely unusual to not get a great mix... More

rhodesde
Mountnessing, Essex
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5 reviews
12 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 27, 2011

This was an excellent tour led by Liz from Applellation Tours. We visited 4 wineries and had a superb lunch at Northburn Winery. Liz was very knowledgeable not only about the wine and vinyards but also about the area. More

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Nancy4036
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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6 reviews
3 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 22, 2011
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person found this review helpful

We took this half day tour, visiting 4 wineries,a s promised. The tour gets you into some of the magnificent scenery around Queenstown besides letting you try some of the wines made in this central Otago area. The guide know the vintners and he asked us about what wines we wanted to try.. Platter lunch was delicious. We were glad... More

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aholdy
Chicago
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7 reviews
2 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 22, 2011

We did a half-day wine tour of the central Otago region. Our tour guide, Liz, picked us an another couple up in Queenstown and took us to 4 different wineries in the area. The small group, intimate setting was exactly what we were looking for. A relaxed lunch at the Carrick winery was also a highlight. In addition to sharing... More

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Kirabee
Sydney
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7 reviews
46 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 20, 2011

Terrific 5-hour wine tour for $NZ169 - expensive, but beats driving, and goes to 4 wineries with a lovely lunch in a beautiful winery. Don't bother trying to ask which wineries these tours go to - they decide on the day based on numbers of people on the tour (this one has 11 max). Fantastic tour-guide, Russ, was super-knowledgeable about... More

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Malissa S
Charleston, West Virginia
1 review
5 of 5 stars Reviewed November 21, 2011

We did many wine tours in Australia and New Zealand. This one was absolutely wonderful. . Ian was a great guide and made the day so special. I just can't say enough good things about our day in Central Otago! More

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Finnylynne
Washington DC, District of Columbia
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13 reviews
2 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed November 14, 2011

We had a fabulous time on our tour with Russ. I think we had a larger group (which is not large) of 6 people including us. Everyone got along very well, and the boutique vineyard tour was perfect. We definitely had our favorite vineyards (Peregrine and Mount Rosa) - both very different but the reason why you go on wine... More

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