The 10 Best Food & Drink in Hastings, North Island

Get to the heart of Hawke’s Bay wine … Winery Tours Hawke’s Bay will take you off the beaten track with an intimate and relaxed tour of boutique wineries. Our passionate, wine-loving tour guides will help you explore and experience the places where real magic happens. Talk to winemakers: learn of their passions, their history and their future. Taste their amazing wines and go behind the scenes

Tours are once a day at 11am and are 2 hours long. Our vineyard and winery walking tour takes you behind the scenes into the world of wine making – a true ‘grape to glass’ experience. Walk through the vineyard and winery with the winemaker to see the processes to get from grapes to bottled wine. Finish with a tutored tasting with six of our current wines.

Hawke's Bay's Leading Wine & Gourmet Experiences. We provide interactive tours designed to awaken every sense. Built around Hawkes Bays internationally acclaimed wine and food industry, we encourage your input so we can cater the Odyssey experience to your own personal interests and desires. Choose from: "A Wine & Gourmet Odyssey" including - Wine Tasting 4-5 Wineries, Gourmet Platter at Top Winery Restaurant (4pm), Sightseeing with Fully Guided Commentary, Vine to Glass Experience. "The Odyssey Experience" including - Wine Tasting 6-7 Wineries, Fully Guided Tour of the Church Road Winery, Wine Museum & Tom McDonald Cellar, Lunch with Wine at Mission Estate, Behind the scenes tour of a boutique winery, Sightseeing with Fully Guided Scenery, Vine to Glass Experience, Gourmet Platter at Top Winery Restaurant. "A Twilight Odyssey" - The world's only Progressive Three Course Winery Dinner at NZ’s Top Winery Restaurants including - Sightseeing with Fully Guided Commentary, Interactive Wine Tasting, Champagne Sunset from Te Mata Peak, Wine with Dinner, Desserts & Dessert Wine,Tea/Coffee.

The Black Rose luxury limo charter coach is a luxurious and unique coach seating up to 16 pax. It boasts A/C, TV, fridge, surround sound and cleverly designed leather seating. Complete with night lights and floor lights inside and tinted windows for your privacy. Smaller groups of up to 4 can enjoy a private winery or sightseeing tour aboard our luxury 2007 Black Chrysler 300C. Not only does the Chrysler provide style and comfort, it is amazingly roomy. While making a conscious effort to minimise our carbon footprint this vehicle will shut down to 4 cylinders when appropriate. If our luxury limo charter bus or Chrysler do not fit your requirements then we also have 2 jet black 22 seater coaches for larger groups.

Fully licenced Brew Pub in beautiful country setting. We have a repurposed 1973 caravan bar and safari dining tent. Enjoy our seasonal beer range and wood fired pizzas in the hop garden. Family friendly, unique NZ experience.

Come visit the Zeffer Cider Taproom & Bar and try everything from our original Crisp Apple Cider to the cult class Apple Crumble Cider to limited seasonal releases. You can fill your own flagon, send cider home or simply enjoy a flight of cider in the sun overlooking our orchard. Help yourself to the delicious selection of deli foods in our fridge and larder to create a DIY picnic or platter.

Hastings Distillers are New Zealand's first certified organic producer of artisan spirits and liqueurs. Drawing from their experience as winemakers, David and Kate create a sensorial landscape of New Zealand using a complex blend of botanicals. The cellar door located in the artisan quarter of Hastings offers tastings, bottle sales and all-day light menu.