Be quick to book the tour that's best for you! Email tgatastingtours@xtra.co.nz or call Lyn or Paul on NZ 027 5224607 or NZ 07 5441383.
LOCAL TASTING TOUR
The Local Tour commences by visiting a boutique craft brewery, where the process of producing the natural beer with no preservatives or additives is explained & a range of beer is sampled. (If you're not a beer drinker, you can choose samples of cider or beer.)
We then have a light lunch at one of Taurana's top restaurants, The White House, Te Puna.
We travel North through scenic countryside for a presentation & tasting at the Wine Portfolio, now home to the prestigious, medal-winning wines of Leveret (formerly Morton) Estate & Mills Reef Winery. (The former Mills Reef Winery no longer exists.) This will be an opportunity to sample excellent NZ wines, and to ask questions about NZ wine-styles & terroir.
The tour returns to Tauranga for dessert & a cocktail at one of Tauranga's most popular restaurants, Salinity Restaurant & Bar, overlooking our beautiful harbour & marina.
We then return you to ship-side (or to local accommodation) via what we claim is the best beach in the Southern Hemisphere.
Total duration approximately 6 1/2 hours
A minimum of 2 people must be booked.
(This tour is only available Tuesday-Sunday, because of venue closure.
COST: $195.00pp. (Transport, tastings, lunch, dessert. N.B. Additional beverages are at the client's cost)
KWIZINE TOUR
The tour picks you up from the Port of Tauranga & travels to a kiwifruit orchard where the industry is explained from planting to the beautiful edible fruit & export (& you will be able to taste the product), gives you an immersive experience, including a "walk & talk" tour & a tasting at a picturesque avocado orchard, provides you with a Fish & Chip lunch at a sea-side village, takes you up to the Minden Lookout where you have a marvelous view of the Coastal Bay of Plenty ( -on a clear day you can see an active volcano, White Island) and takes you to either BeeNZ for a honey tasting & factory tour (Monday-Friday) OR visits an award winning dessert venue to taste one of their desserts (Saturday-Sunday). We then return to port driving alongside beautiful Mt Maunganui beach, which we consider to be the best beach in the Southern Hemisphere.
This tour can also bw donw fron local accommodation.
COST: $195.00pp. Includes transport, tastings, fish & chip lunch, avocado tour, honey tasting &tour OR dessert, Minden Lookout.
