Given a choice between wine tasting in Blenheim or Martinborough, NZ, which area would you select to visit?
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at
12:37 am
Sharon M asked:
I’m planning a trip to New Zealand. Will be biking the West Coast of the South Island, ending with the train trip over the alps to Christchurch. Have a week afterwards and trying to decide where to spend it. I definitely want to do some wine tasting, and know a winery I like in Martinborough. That being said, I was also thinking of containing myself to the South Island on this trip. Is the Martinborough region better, worse, the same as Marlborough/Blenheim?
I’m planning a trip to New Zealand. Will be biking the West Coast of the South Island, ending with the train trip over the alps to Christchurch. Have a week afterwards and trying to decide where to spend it. I definitely want to do some wine tasting, and know a winery I like in Martinborough. That being said, I was also thinking of containing myself to the South Island on this trip. Is the Martinborough region better, worse, the same as Marlborough/Blenheim?
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Blenheim is good too, then you can stop in at Kaikoura as well. If you like the scenic stuff and have a week, you should think about doing the Southern Scenic route/drive as well.
Martinborough is in the North Is and located on the lower East Coast. If you are confining your trip to the South Is, then going to MB is a little out of the way. There is also little else to see in the area — just farms. I hear the wine is good, and if you want to spend the time travelling across the Cook Strait and then over the Rimutaka Hills (a long and winding range of hills – almost mountains), then the trip will be OK. About 60-70 miles north of Wellington.