Plan your visit
Experience Hawke’s Bay Wine Trails
Hawke’s Bay is home to an outstanding wine tourism culture and offers a wide variety of experiences as well as regular food and wine festivals.
Cellar doors, winery restaurants, vineyard accommodation, and wine experiences. This is a dream destination for wine lovers, easily accessible via air or road.
Wine trails in Hawke’s Bay offer a plethora of ways to experience the highly-accoladed wines of the region, from well-developed cycle trails, to architecture and wine tours in classic cars. The diversity in wine is matched by the diversity in landscape, as the region’s wineries and tasting rooms are scattered throughout plains, mountain peaks and valleys, and coastal cliffs.
Wine and food is a way of life in Hawke’s Bay, celebrated with festivals, markets, and events throughout the year. For more information on visiting Hawke’s Bay visit the Hello Hawke’s Bay website.
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Download our Wine and Food Map to help you visit some of the 35 or so winery cellar doors in the bay and taste the numerous award-winning Hawke’s Bay wines.
We have a few tips on Wine Tasting Etiquette you might like to look at to help you make the most of your visit to Hawke’s Bay.
Hawke’s Bay offers some of New Zealand’s leading wine trails. Take a day or two to sample all there is to offer, with wines from Hawke’s Bay river valleys, terraces and hillsides of vineyards.
Open to visitors
Cellar Doors
Hawke’s Bay wine trials take in a vast variety of wineries, of which around 35, depending on the season you visit in, have cellar doors open to the public. These cellar doors are all unique and offer a chance to get to know the people behind the scenes as well as discover the diversity of styles and varieties produced in Hawke’s Bay.
Some of our cellar doors operate on a “By Appointment Only” basis. Others have standard opening hours whereby you can pop in. They do get busy sometimes, so it pays to call ahead and make a reservation, especially if you are a group of five or more. That way you can get the most out of your experience. Purchasing wine at a cellar door is a must do. You can take it with you or have it shipped home. The staff are always very helpful.
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Abbey Estate Winery
Sat & Sun 11am-5pm
Contact 06 879 6171 or info@abbeycellars.com
Akarangi Wines
7 days, 11am-5pm or by appointment.
Contact info@akarangi.co.nz
Alpha Domus
Ash Ridge Winery
Askerne Winery
Black Barn Vineyards
Bostock Wines
By appointment only.
Contact sales@bostockwines.nz or 06 873 9046
Brookfields Vineyards
Clearview Estate
Church Road Winery
Crab Farm Winery
Thurs to Sun 10am-5pm
Contact info@crabfarmwinery.co.nz or 06 836 6678
Craggy Range
7 days, 11am-5pm
Contact cellardoor@craggyrange.com or 06 873 0141
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De la Terre
Element Wines
Elephant Hill
Hawke's Bay Wine Cellar Door
Thurs 1-5pm, Fri 1-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12-4pm until 8th November. Crn Heretaunga & Warren Streets, Hastings.
Hawke's Ridge Wine Estate
From 24th Sept, Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm
Contact info@hawkesridge.co.nz or 06 281 2025
Junction Wines
Fri-Sun 12-4:30pm or by appointment.
Contact 027 445 5245
Lime Rock Wines
Linden Estate
7 days, 10am-5pm
Contact 06 836 6806 option 1
Mission Estate Winery
Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 10am-4:30pm
Contact vinpos@missionestate.co.nz or 06 845 9353
Moana Park
7 days, 12pm-5pm
Contact sales@moanapark.co.nz or 06 844 8269
Monowai Estate
By appointment.
Contact emma@monowai.co.nz
Oak Estate
Thurs to Sat 11:30am-4:30pm
Contact info@oakestatewines.co.nz or 06 879 7019
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Paritua Winery
By appointment only.
Contact 06 874 9180
Pask Winery
Pukeora Estate
By appointment during the winter.
Contact info@pukeora.com or 06 858 9339
Radburnd Cellars
By appointment only, Mon-Fri 10am-3pm
Contact hello@radburndcellars.co.nz or 06 651 1815
Sileni Estate
Smith & Sheth
From 23rd Sept – Cellar Door Wed-Sat 1pm-4pm; Wine lounge Wed-Sat 4pm-9pm
Contact bookings@smithandsheth.com
Stonecroft
Villa Maria GG & Esk Valley Wine Lounge
As of 15th October, Tues-Sat 11am-5pm
Contact BrittanyT@villamaria.co.nz
Te Awanga Estate
Te Mata Estate
The Urban Winery
Wed 12pm-6pm, Thurs-Sat 12pm til late, Sun 12pm-6pm
Contact manager@theurbanwinery.co.nz
Trinity Hill
Wed to Sun, 11am-4pm. Contact enquiries@trinityhill.com or 06 879 7778 Ext 709
Unison Vineyards
Sat & Sun 11am-3pm or by appointment.
Contact cellardoor@unisonvineyard.co.nz or 06 879 7913
Village Vineyards
Sat & Sun 1-5pm or by appointment.
Contact villagevineyards@outlook.com or 06 877 7782 or 021 552 011
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Wine Experiences
Hawke’s Bay is home to an outstanding wine tourism culture and offers a wide variety of experiences as well as regular food and wine festivals.
There is something for everybody in sunny Hawke’s Bay – pre-organised tasting flights (a wine flight is a selection of 4 or 5 wines to be tasted in order); tailored wine flights; wine flights can be self-guided or a knowledgeable character will take you through the wines; food and wine matching experiences; the opportunity to blend your own wine; VIP experiences accompanied by a sommelier, winemaker or even a Master of Wine; at certain times of the year there are opportunities to help in the vineyards at picking parties, or even see the wine making process in action.
Food options are offered at many of the cellar doors – options include full restaurant & bistros; cheese and charcuterie platters; wood fired pizzas; food trucks; build your own picnic or bring your own; café style cabinet food – all centred on the beautifully fresh, seasonal local produce. A long lunch is always the order of the day though, opening a fine bottle of Hawke’s bay wine to accompany it.
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Getting Around
With more than 200 vineyards, 70+ wineries and 30+ cellar doors, the toughest decision you’ll have is where to start.
There are many options to transport yourselves between our cellar doors – self-drive, just make sure you nominate a sober driver!; hire a bike – whether electric or the old fashioned pedal power, our trails are organized into different circuits that take in several wineries en-route; book a winery tour and be driven around by a knowledgeable friendly local; you could walk between some that are grouped; or even charter a helicopter! The Wineries Ride was created to take in a small selection of Cellar Doors on an easy cycle route, with some topical storyboards along the way.
And if you want to be completely immersed in vineyard and winery life, then several of our members offer accommodation on their property that can be booked – from quaint vineyard cottages to luxurious lodges that you can bring a group of friends to.