Scenic Helicopter Flight, Mountain Landing & Wine Tour Queenstown
Fly to the vines with Altitude Tours on a Helicopter Wine Tour.
Start your day being met by the helicopter company at your Queenstown accommodation and enjoy a scenic helicopter flight giving you aerial views of the stunning vines and famous wine-growing region, before landing on a mountaintop for a glass of bubbles (sparkling wine).
Your helicopter will land at your first cellar door where you will meet your guide and be hosted across four separate tasting experiences, including a tour of the Gibbston Valley Winery wine cave. Throughout the day you will be entertained with local winemaking facts and stories, and you also have the option of indulging in a delicious lunch at a local winery (additional cost ordered on the day).
This helicopter wine tour is all about taking a regular wine-tasting journey to new heights and pairing good wine and good people, tasting the best wines produced in New Zealand, including our world-famous Pinot Noir.
Options
Helicopter Wine Sampler Tour
Pickup included
What's included in Scenic Helicopter Flight, Mountain Landing & Wine Tour Queenstown
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Start your day being met by the helicopter company at your Queenstown accommodation and enjoy a scenic helicopter flight taking you right across the Gibbston wine region and its vines below. Throughout the flight, we will land on a mountaintop for a glass of bubbles (sparkling wine).
Gibbston Valley Winery
The first stop of the day is at the iconic Gibbston Valley Winery. Gibbston Valley is one of the region's founding wineries and it's here that we will join a guided tour through New Zealand's largest underground wine cave and enjoy tastings of some of their world-famous wines.
Kinross is our second stop and a fantastic location to try a range of different wines across multiple labels. Along with producing their own wines, their cellar door host will also showcase wines from smaller producers and share their incredible stories of how they came to be. After your wine tasting, we allow extra time to enjoy lunch. Kinross has a range of delicious dishes on its menu, including pizzas, platters, smaller bites, and mains. This is ordered and paid directly on the day, giving you the flexibility to order what you would like based on your taste and budget.
Inclusions
- Scenic helicopter flight over the Gibbston wine region
- Transport in a premium Mercedes vehicle around the wineries.
- 4 x Fantastic tasting experiences at different cellar doors around Gibbston
- Convenient hotel pick up
- Wine certified guide hosting you between each location.
- Take in the views on a mountain landing including a glass of sparkling wine.
- Guided tour of New Zealand's largest underground wine cave
- Lunch at a premier cellar door is at your expense
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years. We recommend that you bring your passport or NZ drivers license with you.
- During the day we allow additional time at Kinross Cellar Door to enjoy lunch. While lunch isn't included in the tour price, this is because Kinross offers a broad menu, allowing you to select something for your taste and budget.
- Not suitable for those under 18 years old
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
You will be collected by our helicopter partner The Helicopter Line at approx. 9:15am and taken to their base for a safety briefing prior to your 10am flight. Pick-ups are available at a range of hotels and bus stops around Queenstown and Frankton. After you book the Altitude Tours team will send through reconfirmation of your pick-up time and location and can help answer any questions you may have leading up to the day.
