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today we are going on a wine tour of Marlborough.
we're starting the day in the tombstone backpackers where we are getting ready
for today's activity which is the Marlborough wine tour with sounds connection. we are
introduced to our guide John who is taking us on the tour today to several
different wineries with a bunch of lovely people. Our first winery today is
going to be hunter's winery which has an amazing entrance through the garden
but because it's raining today sadly we could not film it. as we enter we are
greeted with a bunch of glasses which we guess are gonna be filled with wine. we
are told that hunter's is an award-winning winery and a great place
to start a wine tour. we're gonna be tasting a wealth of wine right here some
Sauvignon Blanc some gewurztraminer some Pinot Gris and
even some Chardonnay.
we are sipping all the tasters while our host is telling us about the growing
process of the wine in the Marlborough region. all the tasters are actually
really small portions of wine. one after the others Laura and I start to be pretty
happy. our host is also telling us about the different flavors that we can taste
in our wine and how those flavors are achieved while growing in the Marlborough
region. the Marlborough region is the largest wine growing region in New Zealand so we
really have a huge variety of wines to taste. so as we get to our last tasters
we start to get a tiny bit tipsy and maybe a little bit cheeky. so after
tasting almost all the range that hunter's has to offer
we are hopping back in a van and making our way to the next winery on our tour today
which is gonna be Cloudy Bay. Cloudy Bay is probably the most famous winery in
the Marlborough region and I can see why they are actually much
more generous with their portions. the glass are full on this tasting or
just actual wine drinking. as we start getting a bit more tipsy and a bit more
jovial we are mingling more with our fellow tour goers oh my god I have had
too much wine. I want more wine. the decor in Cloudy Bay is really modern really
sophisticated and you can see rows and rows of French oak wine barrels in the
back of the cellar door. we spend a bit of time in front of the
cozy fireplace it's nice and warm a good place to well taste wine and eat lots of
crackers. but it's already time for us to head back on the road and head to the
next winery on our [wine] tour which is Framingham. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will all be as one.
Do you know where that's from? You have to read that? you've done too much much too young
now you're married with a on when you should be having fun with me Framingham
has a rock music theme it's really cool to have the very famous music quotes
right in front in the garden but as soon as we enter the winery we just greeted a
bit like all the other wineries by a lady that's gonna tell us more about the
wine that they have to offer. here we get some very helpful information sheets
about the different wines that we're tasting which include Riesling which is
one of my favorites from here. we try Montepulciano I don't know how you
pronounce that Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir so we have quite a few
tastings of those before heading down to the hidden cellar of Framingham. so down
here is sort of like a mini museum and behind some dungeon doors are vintage
winemaking kits old wine bottles and lots of information about the Framingham
winery. take some good pictures Laura? I think so. I can't tell at the moment but I'm pretty sure they're alright.
it's getting a little bit late in the afternoon so the last winery that we are
going to be visiting today is Geisen which is one of the very famous winery
in New Zealand you can find their bottle of wine in every supermarket around the
country. this is a final wine tasting so everyone is in a good mood by this point
it's just more like social drinking than wine tasting. so how do you like this one?
little bit of like you know reminds me when I was in the park early age. it's
hard to believe that by the end of these tour we have actually tasted 22 different
wines and this last winery is definitely putting the nail in the coffin as they
are very close to closing time and are serving us one wine after the other very
very quickly we are speed tasting this is like speed dating but with tasty
It's called titting, t-t-t-tasting. One sip wonder I'm gonna use that one.
by this point in the tour everybody is definitely a little bit tipsy and joking
around and socializing and a lot of the tour goers are ordering wines by the
crate there's a lady on our tou which is from the US that orders in this very
winery over three crates of wine to be shipped back to her country. it's
absolutely incredible the amount of money that people can spend on wines in
New Zealand as they are absolutely delicious.
which one was your favorite? number 17 and a half was particularly delightful.
are you just bullshitting right now or is it the truth? I can't remember a single one.
Our guide John is letting us know that this will be the last winery that we will visit today but
that he has a little surprise for us for our next stop and he said it has nothing
to do with alcohol so Laura and I are quite intrigued.
so we just ask the bus driver to stop and take some pictures of this amazing
landscape. It's a very fun trip to the next stop of our journey and everybody is actually
singing and joking in the van. Chocolate I'm not waiting for anyone. we are stoked
to find out that our final stop is Makana Confection which is a chocolate
factory right in the middle of the Marlborough region with loads of free chocolate
samples we also get the chance to have a look behind the scenes of the Chocolate
Factory where we're watching the workers behind these huge glass windows while
we're eating probably more than our fair share of chocolate samples. in particular
we love the macadamia butter toffee crunch which is absolutely to die for.
after an awesome day of wine chocolate and more wine we are heading back to our
accommodation at the tombstone backpackers where we're getting ready
for tomorrow where we are doing mountain biking in picton. I just had 21 different
tastings here that makes a whole bottle. why would I buy a bottle? I just got 21 tastings.