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.
Please note some Wineries and Cellar Doors may be closed due to the affects of Cyclone Gabrielle, please check before visiting.
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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View the 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
Please note some Cellar Doors may be closed due to the affects of Cyclone Gabrielle, please check before visiting.
Hawke’s Bay wine trials take in a vast variety of wineries, of which around 37, 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.
Closed - keep at the top and empty
Abbey Winery and Brewery
Akarangi Wines
Temporarily closed
Contact info@akarangi.co.nz
Alpha Domus
Thursday- Sunday 11am-5pm
Contact cellardoor@alphadomus.co.nz or 027 862 2340 or 06 879 6752 Ext 2
Ash Ridge Winery
Thursday – Monday, 11am-5pm
Contact cellar@ashridgewines.co.nz or 06 650 4324
Askerne Winery
Contact cellardoor.askerne@xtra.co.nz or 06 877 2089
Black Barn Vineyards
10am-4pm 7 days
Contact cellardoor@blackbarn.com or 06 877 7985
Bostock Wines
Contact sales@bostockwines.nz or 06 873 9046
Brookfields Vineyards
Temporarily Closed
Contact brookfields.vineyards@xtra.co.nz or 06 834 4615
Clearview Estate
Contact cellardoor@clearviewestate.co.nz or 06 875 0150
Church Road Winery
Contact info@churchroad.co.nz or 06 833 8225
Crab Farm Winery
Projected opening 9th March, please check prior
Contact info@crabfarmwinery.co.nz or 06 836 6678
Craggy Range
Contact cellardoor@craggyrange.com or 06 873 0141
Closed - keep at the top and empty
Decibel Wines
Thursday to Sat 11am-5pm
Contact info@decibelwines.com or +64 22 361 9645
De La Terre
Contact sales@delaterre.co.nz or 06 874 3224
Elephant Hill
Hawke's Ridge Wine Estate
Friday 11am-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
Closed for winter from mid- May until October 2023
Contact info@hawkesridge.co.nz or 06 281 2025
Junction Wines
Temporarily Closed
Contact 027 445 5245
Linden Estate
Temporarily Closed post flooding
Contact 06 836 6806 option 1
Mission Estate Winery
Contact cellardoor@missionestate.co.nz or 06 845 9353
Moana Park
Contact sales@moanapark.co.nz or 06 844 8269
Monowai Estate
By appointment only.
Inaccessible post-flooding
Contact emma@monowai.co.nz
Oak Estate
Contact info@oakestatewines.co.nz or 06 879 7019
Closed - keep at the top and empty
Paritua Winery
Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-4pm (Saturday 11am – 5pm) or by appointment.
Contact cellardoor@paritua.com or 06 874 9180
Pask Winery
Contact info@pask.co.nz or 06 879 7906
Pukeora Estate
Contact info@pukeora.com or 06 858 9339
Radburnd Cellars
Temporarily Closed
Contact hello@radburndcellars.co.nz or 06 651 1815
Sileni Estate
Open Wednesday – Sunday 10am-5pm
Contact cellar@sileni.co.nz or 06 879 4830
Smith & Sheth
Wednesday – Saturday: 12pm-9pm
Sunday 12pm-7pm
Closed Mon & Tues.
Tasting flights are available until 4pm each day.
Contact bookings@smithandsheth.com or 06 650 5550
Stonecroft
Contact wine@stonecroft.co.nz or 06 879 9610
Shed 530 Estate
CELLAR DOOR OPEN
Te Awanga Estate
Wednesday – Sunday, 11am-5pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Contact cellardoor@teawangaestate.co.nz or 06 875 0553
Te Mata Estate
Contact cellardoor@temata.co.nz or 06 877 4399
The Urban Winery
Contact manager@theurbanwinery.co.nz or 06 650 3353
Trinity Hill
Contact enquiries@trinityhill.com or 06 879 7778 Ext 709
Unison Vineyards
Sun 11am-4pm
Contact cellardoor@unisonvineyard.co.nz or 06 879 7913
Village Vineyards in Brother Cafe
Contact rhys@villagevineyards.co.nz or 06 877 7782 or 021 552 011
Sip & dine
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.