Marlborough Wine Tour: Guided Biking & Self-Exploration

Discover Marlborough’s wines with a guided morning tour and self-guided afternoon adventure. Perfect blend of expert insights and personal exploration.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Explore Marlborough Wine Tours - After being collected from your accommodation, you’ll be transported to Explore Marlborough’s base at the Vines Village. Here, you’ll be equipped with a bike, helmet, and hi-viz vest. The Vines Village features restrooms, a café, and a cellar door.
What's Included
  • Bikes, Helmets and Hi-Viz Vests
  • Wine region map
  • Bicycle use
  • All morning winery tasting fees
  • Pick up from Blenheim and Renwick accommodation
What's Not Included
  • Lunch is not included in this tour
Additional Information

If you are looking for a guided experience of the Marlborough Wine region but also want to do a bit of exploring on your own then our half and half biking wine tour is the tour for you!
Spend a morning on our half day guided biking wine tour. Your knowledgeable and experienced guide will talk to you about the history of the area, its wines and the…

Location
193 Rapaura Road
Rapaura Road
We start our pick ups from your Blenheim accommodation at 9.15am. If you are driving out to us we will see you at our base at The Vines Village (193 Rapaura Rd) at 9:30am.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Cloeegb
Mar 25, 2025
A beautiful bike ride and very good wines! - Our guide Anne was really nice and friendly, and made us have a great time. She was very careful about our safety, especially when crossing roads. We stopped (among others) at the Framingham and White Heaven estate, and their wines were fabulous!! We had visited 3 estates in the morning, and in the end it was enough to discover the region and taste the wines.
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Jozias_m
Feb 17, 2025
Our guide April was... - Our guide, April, was knowledgeable, friendly, and full of great energy. I'm not a wine expert by any means, but she managed to keep the conversation simple for me while diving into technical details when talking to my husband, who knows a lot about wine.
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U2370rtjuliah
Feb 9, 2025
Wonderful wine tour - Fab wine tour with Graham… very knowledgeable and personable. Pick up, tour and drop back were brilliant and wines all delicious! Fab day. Would highly recommend.
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Mclaszlo2
Feb 1, 2025
Great day in Marlborough - It was an amazing day of riding through the vineyards! Graeme was a great guide, very relaxed and informative. They retrieved our purchased wine at end of day so we didn’t have to carry in our baskets. The winery personnel was so welcoming and informative giving us a history lesson as well as the description of their processes. Could. To have been a better day! Have lunch at St. Clair’s!
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Ls207a
Jan 26, 2025
Pleasant cycling & informative tour - Thanks April for an informative and fun cycle tour. There were 6 of us on the morning tour. We visited 3 wineries with many wine tastings. We enjoyed cycling through the countryside.
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Joefyw
Jan 3, 2025
The perfect way to explore Marlborough wines - Cycling around Marlborough is definitely the way to explore the wineries in the region. The service provided by Explore Marlborough Wine Tours is excellent, we had a pick up from our hotel from our lovely guide James. We were taken to 3 wineries during the course of our morning, where we enjoyed a variety of exceptional wines and excellent scenery on the way. The bikes were comfortable, easy to ride and in very good condition. We felt safe at all times and even when it unexpectedly poured with rain in the afternoon, the office gave us some ponchos to keep us (sort of) dry as we continued to our lunch stop (recommended by EMWT) and final winery. A brilliant day.
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Quigleam
Oct 3, 2024
Wine not, do cycling wine tour, great experience would highly recommend! - Loved every moment, smooth pic up from oir acommodation and our guide Roo was fantastic, we really enjoyed his company and he was very knowledgeable. Did 3 guided stops, gorgeous wine and met great ladies at each winery who educated us on the vineyard story and wine and made us feel very welcome, comfortable and relaxed. Laid back atmosphere in each vineyeard. Then we had about 3 hours self guided tour and Roo gave us some great tips and a map so we felt very comfortable doing the second half of the day on our own. Couldn't fault it, would recommend as a must do when visiting south island and would tell everyone to do it with Explore Marlborough wine tours!
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Cora_wohl
Apr 19, 2024
A perfect day for all wine lovers - What a great day! If you are interested in wine, you will love this tour! You will se the beautiful wine landscape and of course you will try the best wines from New Zealand. 🍷Thanks Rob it was a pleasure!😊
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Anniee754
Mar 8, 2024
A wonderfully relaxed way to visit Marlborough's cellar doors - Had a fabulous day exploring the wines of Marlborough by bike .. We were well looked after by our guide and by staff at each of the cellar doors. Cycling along quite roads and tracks between the vineyards is a great way to soak up the atmosphere of Marlborough
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Blt79
Feb 17, 2024
Blenheim blast - Had a blast this is the best way to see Blenheim and vineyards, so safe and fun. The tour guides very informative and the bikes were easy to use
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From $100
up to 8 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).