Enjoy a full day exploring the wineries at your own pace. This experience begins with a shuttle from Queenstown to the quaint, gold-mining village of Arrowtown. Here the team from Around the Basin Bike will cover mountain bike fitting, navigation, bike safety and (very importantly) winery information. There’s the opportunity to explore Arrowtown and visit one of the cafés, or hop on your bike and get straight into your morning ride. From Arrowtown the trail follows the beautiful Arrow and Kawarau rivers to the Kawarau Suspension Bridge – home of the world’s first bungy jump.
From there spend the rest of the day biking at your leisure along the Gibbston River Trail, using an informative winery map to visit as many of the cellar doors linked throughout this easy riding trail.
There are plenty of wineries to call into for tastings or lunch (additional cost) or picnic at along the way, and the crew will stop in with their shuttle to pick up any wine you may purchase, how good is that!
Wineries include: Chard Farm, Gibbston Valley Winery, Rockburn, Gibbston Tavern, Kinross, Brennan and Mt Rosa.
You will be picked up at 4:30 pm from your winery of choice for the shuttle back to Queenstown.
The riding distance to the first winery is 15 km. To get all the way to the end of the wine valley, you’ll end up covering about 25 km.
