Wine, Art & Wilderness Tours

17/01/2025

Always a highlight to share this place of abundance.... Māpua 😎

28/11/2024

Great to be able to support The Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust in the work they do, we are just one of many local operators supporting the mahi of the trust. It is so, so good to share the benefits of this mahi with our guests!

Earlier this year Wine, Art & Wilderness Tours generously donated 20 A24 Smart Traps to bolster our existing predator control network!

We installed one near Medlands that they will check with their clients - its definitely conservation in action and we are grateful for all their advocacy!

Image: Elissa M

24/10/2024

Since we’re always driving guests around the region, it’s no surprise that we have an affection for cars. 🚗

That’s why we’re always excited to show people the Nelson Classic Car Museum on our tours. They have over 150 cars spanning over 120 years! 🤩

Whether you’re a classic car aficionado or not, the Classic Car Museum is an experience not to be missed when visiting Nelson.

What’s your favourite classic car? Comment below 👇 and chat with us about booking a tour with a stop at the Classic Car Museum.

12/10/2024

We recently donated 20 A24 Smart Trap Kits to The Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust to help them on their mission to protect and enhance the biodiversity of the park. 🪶🌿

These catchy (pun intended) and humane traps can reset automatically using a small gas canister. Plus, we can track the trap using an app to know when a kill has been made or the gas is low, meaning less pressure on our hardworking trap line volunteers. 💪

But the best part is that we got to spend the day in the park with Abby and Peter where we helped them install and test one of the new traps!

Thanks for all you do Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust and keep up the good work! 👏 Let’s all do our part to keep the Abel Tasman thriving so we can all enjoy it for years to come. 🌏

14/05/2024

Celebrating 154 years since New Zealand's first organised game of rugby, using an oval ball 🏉 and the Monro rules, was played right here in sunny Nelson, 14 May 1870.

Nelson Football Club (Town) vs Nelson College... who won? According to the The Colonist on May 17 "it is all shove, pull, rush and roll about in a confused mass till ‘down’ is cried, and away the ball goes again...”

Town won 2-nil

03/05/2024

Be rude not to! 😎
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13/04/2024

Wine tours at the top of the south island can be spectacularly beautiful in the fall.
The leaves are 🍂 and the grapes are all doing their thing in vats and barrels.... winemakers and growers are quietly confident this has been a classic vintage.
Let's see, the proof will be in the tasting of vintage 2024... but in the meantime, come join us as we explore the region's wine offerings.
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16/03/2024

Rush hour at the beach. 🌞

16/03/2024

It was a chilly morning but yet again another glorious day in as we share the best of the natural settings in a day. 😎
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13/03/2024

Ripe for the picking 🍇🍇 these beautifully luscious Pinot Noir grapes at Soon to be harvested, fermented and into the oak barrels... if not already 🌞🙏😎

Come and taste the veritable selection of Nelson/Tasman wines with your knowledgeable hosts on a tour. 🍷🥂 Cheers!

04/03/2024

How crazy, to be staring down yet-to-be harvested vines of in March and there's snow on the southern mountains!!!

25/02/2024

Let's get some nature in before a tour... 🤩 After a sprinkle of rain in the night the forest was alive with birdsong, bees and the sweet smell that can only be a NZ native forest! 😀

24/02/2024

Baby wine 🍷 not long now you beauties! 🌞🙏😎

24/01/2024

Nelson 😎 shines! We love showing the region of Te Tau Ihu /top of the south island to our guests. And today we welcome the cruise ship 🚢 Seabourne Odyssey. 🌞

10/01/2024

Another gorgeous day exploring the Marlborough wine region ... 29° and rising 🌞
and amongst the vines with Deni at 😎

14/12/2023

Into the Wild-erness we go... hosting a group of alumni from the U.S. with a focus on nature and water. 💧
The Wharepapa/Arthur range shows a diverse range of flora, vistas, birdlife and some awesome geology... and we love showing off this precious land to our guests and how it has been shaped over time.
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