Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Drive Auckland's wine country yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Auckland CBD, Kumeu — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 35 stories cover 10 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you pass Henderson Valley you'll hear how the Dalmatian families behind names like Babich, Soljans and Nobilo dug kauri gum out of Northland swamps to pay for the land where New Zealand's wine industry began. No group, no schedule, no guide — spend an hour at one cellar door and five minutes at another, repla...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Full offline download - the entire tour, audio and maps, works with no mobile signal
GPS audio tour of Auckland wine country, playing automatically as you reach each stop
In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Lifetime access: no expiry, and free updates as new stories are added
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, lunch and drinks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Meeting Points
Departure
Kumeu
On State Highway 16 through Kumeu village, the gateway to the western wineries. Roadside and winery parking available.
Drive Auckland's wine country yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Auckland CBD, Kumeu — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 35 stories cover 10 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you pass Henderson Valley you'll hear how the Dalmatian families behind names like Babich, Soljans and Nobilo dug kauri gum out of Northland swamps to pay for the land where New Zealand's wine industry began. No group, no schedule, no guide — spend an hour at one cellar door and five minutes at another, repla...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Full offline download - the entire tour, audio and maps, works with no mobile signal
GPS audio tour of Auckland wine country, playing automatically as you reach each stop
In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Lifetime access: no expiry, and free updates as new stories are added
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, lunch and drinks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Meeting Points
Departure
Kumeu
On State Highway 16 through Kumeu village, the gateway to the western wineries. Roadside and winery parking available.
Return
Itinerary
1
Founded 1916 on Babich Road and still family-run, one of the oldest continuously operating wineries in the country.
1 hour
2
Kumeu River Wines
Founded 1944; winemaker Michael Brajkovich MW built its Chardonnay into a wine measured against white Burgundy.
1 hour
3
Soljans Estate Winery
A Dalmatian family estate founded in 1937, now with a cellar door on State Highway 16 at Kumeu.
1 hour
4
Westbrook Winery
Established 1935 on Ararimu Valley Road, one of the highest-rated cellar doors in the region.
1 hour
5
The Hunting Lodge Winery & Restaurant
A Waikoukou Valley Road estate operating under this name since 2010, with an open cellar door.
1 hour
6
Henderson
The most historically significant wine landscape in New Zealand, where the industry began as a business in the early 1900s.
30 minutes
7
Kumeu
A village on State Highway 16, sitting on clay and gravel where the Kumeu River meets its streams.
30 minutes
8
Arataki Visitor Centre - Waitakere Ranges
Te Wao Nui o Tiriwa, the bush-clad volcanic hills that form Auckland western backbone and shape the valley climate.
30 minutes
9
Waimauku
Ten minutes northwest of Kumeu, where the valley floor gives way to rolling green hills and volcanic-ash soils.
30 minutes
10
Matakana
The warmer coastal district north of the city, planted with an unusually wide spread of grape varieties.
30 minutes
11
Auckland Central
Your starting point - the tour begins the moment you pull away from the city and head west.
30 minutes
12
A Henderson Valley Road cellar door established in 1990.
