New Zealand Food and Wine Tours

New Zealand is a gourmet’s paradise! A land of plenty... of fresh, rich foods with distinct characteristics!

New Zealand's cuisine has been described as Pacific Rim, drawing inspiration from Europe, Asia, and Polynesia. This blend of influences has created a mouth-watering range of flavours and food available in cafes and restaurants nationwide. 

For dishes that have a distinctly New Zealand style, there's lamb, pork, venison, salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, paua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both are types of New Zealand shellfish), kumara (sweet potato), kiwifruit, tamarillo and pavlova, the national dessert. Its distinctiveness is more in the way New Zealanders eat, generally preferring as relaxed and unaffected as possible, in keeping with the laidback Kiwi psyche. 

The country's wine industry has grown rapidly in recent years and achieved remarkable success and a great international reputation.  Most of New Zealand's over 600 wineries are accessible for tasting.

What we recommend while visiting New Zealand

• Savour a wine at one or two of the many vineyards
• Taste our beer at a brewery and talk to some locals Kiwis
• Observe cheesemakers in their factory
• Visit Orchards (kiwi fruit, stone fruit, olives, avocado and more…)
• Watch men at work on a mussel, oyster, or salmon farm
• Sleep at a sheep, deer, or beef farm and eat a home-cooked meal with the host
• Overnight at a romantic vineyard
• Hold a picnic and stop at one of the many scenic lookouts
• Stay at lodges with world class chefs and sample New Zealand's seasonal produce
• Savour meals at the many local gourmet restaurants
• Experience a Hangi (native feast) with Maori Songs and dancing
• Enjoy a big part of NZ couture - the barbeque
• Take a boat cruise and catch your own fresh fish