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Marlborough Icons Tour: Wine tasting, Cruise, and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Experience
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66 Ratings
Marlborough Region
Discover the best of Marlborough, New Zealand’s South Island, with a full-day tour featuring wine tasting, a scenic cruise, and a delightful Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc experience.
Discover the best of Marlborough, New Zealand’s South Island, with a full-day tour featuring wine tasting, a scenic cruise, and a delightful Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc experience.
Duration:
6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Marlborough Region - The Marlborough Icons Tour showcases the best of Marlborough in a single day. Start with a morning wine tour, followed by a light lunch, then enjoy a leisurely seafood cruise in the afternoon, featuring fresh local seafood as you sail through the breathtaking Marlborough Sounds, NZ. Explore the renowned Marlborough wine…
- Marlborough Region - The Marlborough Icons Tour showcases the best of Marlborough in a single day. Start with a morning wine tour, followed by a light lunch, then enjoy a leisurely seafood cruise in the afternoon, featuring fresh local seafood as you sail through the breathtaking Marlborough Sounds, NZ. Explore the renowned Marlborough wine region, celebrated for its Sauvignon Blanc. Tour the vineyards, visit the wineries, and taste exceptional wines at two outstanding wineries.
- Marlborough Sounds - Spend a relaxing afternoon on a seafood cruise, savoring fresh local seafood as you navigate the stunning Marlborough Sounds, NZ.
What's Included
- Wine tasting
- Seafood Cruise
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Local taxes
- Wine tasting
- Seafood Cruise
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Local taxes
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks (except wine tastings and light lunch & seafood tastings specified)
- Enquire about our add-on pick up & drop off from Picton subject to availability and surcharges apply
- Food and drinks (except wine tastings and light lunch & seafood tastings specified)
- Enquire about our add-on pick up & drop off from Picton subject to availability and surcharges apply
Additional Information
Experience the finest of Marlborough, located at the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. Savor Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, explore the Marlborough Sounds, and enjoy fresh local seafood on this full-day excursion. Begin your day with a Marlborough wine tour, followed by a light lunch before setting off. In the afternoon, unwind on a seafood…
Experience the finest of Marlborough, located at the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. Savor Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, explore the Marlborough Sounds, and enjoy fresh local seafood on this full-day excursion. Begin your day with a Marlborough wine tour, followed by a light lunch before setting off. In the afternoon, unwind on a seafood cruise through the breathtaking Marlborough Sounds, complete with fresh local seafood.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- A maximum of 10 people per booking (larger groups by arrangement)
- A minimum of 6 people
- The afternoon cruise is subject to favorable weather conditions
- May not be suitable for cruise ship guests, as the times for this cruise may not align to meet the callback time to the cruise ship. Please confirm your callback time before booking.
Location
Marlborough Region
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(66 Ratings)
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Anna_k
Jan 6, 2025
Great Trip - We had a great time drinking wine and exploring the sound on this tour. The highlights of this trip we're the Wine tastings, Green Mussles on the boat, and the relaxing and luxurious boat accomodation and staff
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Caroline_r
Jan 4, 2025
Excellent wine tour and cruise - This was an excellent experience. Very well planned and great content. Wine tasting and cruise on Marlborough sounds
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Claude_b
Dec 22, 2024
The wineries were great.... - The wineries were great. The cruise was very pleasant with delicious mussels. It was great to have fairly small group.
Overall, great day.
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Amond_f
Jul 7, 2024
Best day in beautiful Blenheim - We did the all day wine tasting tour (cruise cancelled) we had the best day Andrew our guide was amazingly friendly and knowledgeable all the staff at the cellar doors were very helpful and willing to answer any questions weather was outstanding! Highly recommend
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Portiacousins
Apr 5, 2024
Book this tour and ask for Tanya! - I am so sorry it has taken me so long to review this amazing tour as it really was the highlight of our New Zealand trip. We were picked up by Tanya, our WONDERFUL guide from Marlborough Tour Company. Tanya is so knowledgeable (especially as she previously worked at Cloudy Bay, friendly, helpful and happy to wait while we take photos or take photos of us! We adore her!
We start at Cloudy Bay where we sample fizzy, white and red before a look round the winery (and some shopping of course!). We then head to Framingham Winery where we sample six different wines before being taken to Picton to join the Odyssey and Captain Nick for a BBQ lunch followed by seafood cruise. As we sail around the Marlborough Sounds Captain Nick tells us all about the area before we moor up and he treats us to locally caught salmon and Greenshell mussels on the BBQ, all accompanied by Sauvignon Blanc obvi! We see lots of wildlife and even get to feed the local ducks and fish!
Tanya, Nick and stewardess Rhonda cannot be more friendly, helpful, kind and knowledgable. We really recommend this trip!
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Jan_k
Oct 20, 2024
A pleasant day out - The wine tastings were interesting in that the presenters allowed us to taste wines from various areas owned by the winery. The presenters were knowledgeable and didn't try to sell us wine.
The cruise toured the Sound, and we had a hearty meal of green lipped mussels and salmon.
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B-muswell
Mar 31, 2024
Nice day - Took this tour Sat 30 March. Our driver/guide Finn was exceptional: very pleasant and knowledgeable, and went out of his way to be helpful. Tastings at 2 wineries a very good experience. Unfortunately the cruise was let down by the rain. I’m sure that in better weather that too would have been great.
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Candjdunnington
Mar 28, 2024
A little disappointing as we were holing for more vineyards - possibly we were booked on to the wrong tour. - We were looking forward to a wine tour but in fact only visited 2 vineyards, and even here we felt rushed by the guide as he was anxious we were not late for the lunch and cruise. We had been told by our agents we would be having lunch at the Slip Inn at Havelock, but in fact we were going straight to the cruise where we were to have lunch. This was OK - "a build your own burger" from a variety of salads, bread and burgers - with a glass of wine. We cruised out to some green shell mussels bays were we stopped and were given a little talk about the mussels and how they develop in the beds. We were then presented with bowls of cooked mussels to taste. After this the captain barbecued some salmon and again we were given samples to tast.
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Huggibear
Feb 15, 2024
Maybe just opt for a boat tour - I’d like to give 3.5 stars . The problem was the early morning wine tasting - which I guess was described on booking however who really wants to taste wine at 10am? And there were only 2 wineries - nautilus winery I felt was not informative enough .
The boat cruise was great although if you don’t like mussels make sure you fill up on lunch - I thought there would have been more free wine on the boat !
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Weechancer
Apr 3, 2024
Marlborough Sounds boat trip was superb, but our guide ruined the day - Marlborough Sounds boat trip was superb, but our guide ruined the day. As soon as we were picked up, we started to feel uncomfortable with the highly political and biased comments being made by the tour guide (Bruce). We visited two wineries, but felt very rushed at both. The views expressed by the guide continued and a few of us were berated when expressing opposing views (and unfortunately for the guide, a number of the people on the bus are globally renowned experts in these fields!)
The boat tour was fabulous once we were able to distance ourselves from the guide, the crew warm, friendly and welcoming. The sea food was delicious and very fresh - the only shame was having to get back on the bus.
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