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Phil’s company – Fine Wine Tours Auckland is the natural choice for personal to Waiheke Island wine tours, Matakana wine tours, Kumeu wine tours, Foodie ‘food and wine’ tours, and large group wine tours in Auckland. Also private Auckland wine tours by arrangement.
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Dear wine-friends,
At the time of writing, this year’s 2012 harvest has been at best a ‘difficult’ one. Late rain just prior to grape picking resulted in some problems with mildew and rot. Added to that, we had low sunshine hours over most of the summer. Some regions escaped the bad weather – for example – Waiheke, Central Otago and Marlborough. Other regions have been hit with lower than expected crops and under ripe fruit – especially Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and greater Auckland.
On the positive side, New Zealand’s wine exports have reached record levels – with New Zealand wine now our largest export after our agricultural products.
New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc is still by far our largest harvested and exported variety at 169,000 tonnes. New Zealand Pinot Noir is our second most grown grape variety (32,880 tonnes), and steadily gaining a reputation as one of the world’s best. Our other major varieties are Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Merlot. And another varieties showing large increases in popularity and production are Pinot Gris and Viognier.
And when you’re thinking about wine tours in Auckland New Zealand, remember – Fine Wine Tours is the one recommended by TripAdvisor, Frommer’s, Fodors, Lonely Planet and Rough Guides.
I have been hosting Auckland wine tours for over ten years as a one-man operation and enjoy meeting guests from all over the World.
I have had many guests lately from USA, UK, Australia and Japan – and also some of our cousins from Canada.
Please feel free to email me with any wine questions regarding New Zealand wines, and I’ll do my best to answer your enquiry promptly.
Join Fine Wine Tours Auckland on a relaxing, scenic and informative wine tasting tour package to prestige wineries. I am the Auckland specialist for small, guided vineyard tours in Auckland New Zealand. I cover wine tasting tours all of Auckland’s wine regions – Kumeu West Auckland, Matakana North Auckland and Waiheke Island.
Kind regards and Cheers,
Phil