Marlborough Wine Tour: Full-Day Sauvignon Blanc Tasting & Vineyard Lunch

By mid-morning the Wairau Valley opens like a green map: vines run in neat, sun-bright lines toward distant hills, and the air smells of cut grass and citrus—the first note in a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. You step off a small coach onto a gravel drive framed by espaliered rows and the low hum of cellar-door conversation. A guide offers a tasting flight; glasses click. With every sip the region’s geology and human craft reveal themselves—minerality from free-draining alluvial soils, the bite of cool evenings, and decades of experimentation in barrels and bottle.