Tickets include a festival passport with access to 10+ wineries for tastings and food pairings, a Fullers360 Waiheke adult return ferry ticket, a 3-day Explorer Hop-On Hop-Off Bus pass, plus closing event entry at Wild on Waiheke with Radio Rebelde.
Sunday only tickets include access to 4 wineries for tastings and food pairings, a Fullers360 Waiheke adult return ferry ticket, a 1-day Explorer Hop-On Hop-Off Bus pass, plus closing event entry at Wild on Waiheke with Radio Rebelde.
Buy your full tickets today and unlock the Eastern End Vineyard experiences. Includes access to Man O War; Passage Rock and Poderi Crisci shuttle buses and the festival closing party on Sunday 16th May at Wild Estate. Party on with Waiheke's famous Latin Ska band Radio Rebelde!
Booking instructions for Eastern End Vineyards will be emailed to you prior to the event
Taste and experience Waiheke through your purchased Festival Ticket, which unlocks unique vineyard experiences in the form of a food pairing and tasting at participating vineyards, all enjoyed alongside on display art and live music.
Your Festival Passport also gets you special offers at various restaurants and shops on the island and becomes an entry form to win you a luxurious weekend away on Waiheke at a later date.
Festival Ticket includes:
Once you’ve purchased your Festival Ticket, choose which vineyards you’d like to visit, catch the ferry to the island and hop on one of our festival shuttles and enjoy the tastes and scenery of beautiful Waiheke.
More about the participating festival Vineyards
Oneroa
Cable Bay offers a truly memorable vineyard experience – a cellar door for tasting award-winning wines, exquisite cuisine at our two restaurants, Al Fresco dining, luxury accommodation and expansive lawns with breath-taking sea views. Cable Bay is a ‘must-see’.
Vineyard offering: a wine and food pairing of Cable Bay Rocky Vineyard Pinot Rose 2020 with a Charcoal Tempura and Wasabi Mayo.
Onetangi
Vineyard on gently rolling hills with a veranda cafe & tastings of French-inspired Cabernet blends.
Vineyard offering: receive a glass of selected Waiheke Wine and a ticket to the Stonyridge DJ event on Saturday 21 May. Enter before 5 pm for your free entry to be valid.
Waiheke Island
Iconic Waiheke Island vineyard with upmarket restaurants, premium wines, luxury accommodation and stunning ocean views.
Vineyard offering: enjoy a taste of Mudbrick's award-winning wine and cuisine with a freshly prepared Amuse Bouche paired perfectly with a glass of Mudbrick's Waiheke Island wine.
Onetangi
Wild Estate -a modern architecturally desigwith a difference - a vineyard, restaurant, & also home of Wild on Waiheke Activities and Waiheke Island Brewery - Waiheke's original brewery. A generous outdoor beer garden sits right amongst our vines. It’s a place you can relax and unwind for the day. Overlooked by the green, lush forestry of Te Putiki O Kahu Hill, you’ll feel as though you’re in a hidden and luxurious retreat. Here you can come and roam wild for the day. For the wild at heart can take up their bows and skewer bullseyes, or shoot great flocks of virtual pigeons on our laser claybird shoot. Enjoy our specialty shared boards, matched with our handcrafted beers while contemplating a sedate game of petanque!
Vineyard offering: 3 x Wild Estate tastings (Rose, Pinot Gris, Wilding BDX Blend) served with a side of olives.
Onetangi
Relaxed, tapas-centric venue overlooking vineyards & water open for lunch & weekend dinners.
Vineyard offering: 2 half glasses of Miro wine, with two Basque-inspired, matched tapas a top!
Man O' War Bay
Intimate beachfront winery featuring a tasting room, casual bites & a dog-friendly lawn/picnic area.
Vineyard offering: a glass of Gravestone Sauvignon/Semillon 2018 with freshly shucked Te Matuku Oysters.
Transport shuttle space to this Vineyard is limited. Early Bird buyers of the full ticket will receive email instructions for shuttle bookings 2 weeks before the event.
Onetangi
The secret to great, world quality NZ artisan wines is a perfect vineyard site and a dedicated French-trained master winemaker. Frenchmans Hill Estate has both. You'll find us on Waiheke Island perched above Putiki Estuary on the Te Whau Peninsula at the western head of Onetangi Valley. The vineyard has been producing high quality wines and olive oil since 2010.
Build your wine cellar with award-winning NZ artisan wines.
Vineyard offering: taste a French Man’s Hill Red wine paired with a beef type canape at the Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa.
Onetangi
Peacock Sky has a well deserved reputation for producing a range of high-quality wines from grapes harvested from a spectacular 3 Hectare block in the centre of Waiheke Island, which sits at high elevation surrounded by lush native bush. They specialise in Bordeaux style red wines, and also make a truly unique Méthode Traditionelle Blanc de Noirs.
As their tasting room is closed, they will be showing a range of wines at the Waiheke Wine Centre throughout the festival period.
Vineyard offering: taste Peacock Sky Wines at the Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa. Festival Passport holders are invited to taste six of Peacock Sky’s Wines at the Wine Centre. Tastings include:
Oneroa
Postage Stamp is a collection of high quality, boutique Waiheke Island wines from a selection of small, artisan vineyards.
Often made from classical, and sometimes 'unexpected', grape varieties, each Postage Stamp wine delights with exceptional flavour and its own unique character that is reminiscent of the wine's particular time and place.
Vineyard offering: taste a Postage Stamp Wine at the Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa. Be entered into our draw where you stand a chance to win an original Peter Rees Photography art piece.
Orapiu
Cellar door to one of Waiheke islands most iconic wine brands and summer restaurant and bistro.
Vineyard offering: Zwiebelkuchen is a luscious caramelized onion and cream pie from Swabia, south-central Germany. Autumn in that region is a special time of the year. Traditionally winemakers open their barn or garage and serve their new wine with fresh Zwiebelkuchen pie.
Passage Rock will be emulating this Mosel tradition by tasting 3 wines including a "green" new wine alongside warm Zwibelkuchen.
Transport shuttle space to this Vineyard is limited. Early Bird buyers of the full ticket will receive email instructions for shuttle bookings 2 weeks before the event.
Oneroa
We deliver local wines, other wines, beers and spirits to your door.
You can also order online now via this website, phone us or email us to place your order or you can pop into the shop to see us 🙂
Vineyard offering: visit The Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa Village to experience the tastes of Woodside Hill, French Man’s Hill Estate, Postage Stamp Wines and Peacock Sky Wines.
Waiheke Wine Centre Festival specials:
Subject to availability, only available to passport holders.
Awawawaroa
Woodside Hill is a small 1 Hectare vineyard located on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. The vineyard lies nestled in a larger area of native bush in association with the Whakanewha regional park. This gives the site a number of advantages; it's sheltered to the east, south and west, and it's distance to other vineyards keeps the disease pressure down.
Vineyard offering: taste 3 Woodside Hill Wines with bread & No 29 Olive Oil at the Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa.
Awawawaroa
An authentic Italian style vineyard and restaurant, at home on Waiheke Island as in Napoli. Enjoy winning and dining experiences year-round.
Vineyard offering: flight of 4 Wines accompanied with a selection of Antipasti style garden vegetables and homemade grissini breadsticks, Italian inspired Bread, estate olives and olive oils.
Transport shuttle space to this Vineyard is limited. Early Bird buyers of the full ticket will receive email instructions for shuttle bookings 2 weeks before the event.
Awawawaroa
Woodside Hill is a small 1 Hectare vineyard located on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. The vineyard lies nestled in a larger area of native bush in association with the Whakanewha regional park. This gives the site a number of advantages; it's sheltered to the east, south and west, and it's distance to other vineyards keeps the disease pressure down.
Vineyard offering: taste 3 Woodside Hill Wines with bread & No 29 Olive Oil at the Waiheke Wine Centre in Oneroa.
Awawawaroa
An authentic Italian style vineyard and restaurant, at home on Waiheke Island as in Napoli. Enjoy winning and dining experiences year-round.
Vineyard offering: flight of 4 Wines accompanied with a selection of Antipasti style garden vegetables and homemade grissini breadsticks, Italian inspired Bread, estate olives and olive oils.
Transport shuttle space to this Vineyard is limited. Early Bird buyers of the full ticket will receive email instructions for shuttle bookings 2 weeks before the event.
